I've had a chance to read an extensive excerpt of Michael Wolff's book, and it doesn't matter if it's made up - it's very readable, and virtually everything I've read so far just amplifies what everyone can see on a daily basis. It's going to be best seller for a long time.

We shouldn't, however, let it be a distraction from the real work, and real danger, ahead. Trump occupies the White House, and as long as that is the case, the nation is at risk from an obviously unstable individual. The GOP is running amok, executive departments are being run by incompetent ideologues bent in destroying them, and the courts are being packed with incompetence. With a lazy cat in the White House, the rats are in charge. God help us.

A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich