Tales from the Trump Swamp

Donald Trump's list of cabinet appointments is chock-full of CEOs, billionaires and generals--lots and lots of generals.

Donald Trump calls his attorney general choice Jeff Sessions a "world-class legal mind," but world-class racist is more like it.

Betsy DeVos, Trump's choice for secretary of education, is a pro-charter conservative who wants to gut public education.

Trump says he's giving power back to the people, but those "people" are the super-rich who footed the bill for his inauguration.

The first actions of the Trump administration proved that he couldn't care less about the "ordinary people" he claims to speak for.

Trump's choice for Labor Secretary is a fast-food boss, and no amount of dish soap and hot water can wash the dirt off of him.

The news that Trump wants to reinstate CIA black sites begs the question: Why is the administration so keen on restarting torture?

With Ben Carson taking over Housing and Urban Development, the prospects don't look good for affordable housing--or poor people.

Is it a surprise that an administration filled with banksters is unraveling the Dodd-Frank rules they opposed back on Wall Street?

Trump's appointment of Scott Pruitt to head the EPA is another step in the energy giant's scorched-earth war on a warming planet.

Neil Gorsuch was careful about what he said in his Supreme Court confirmation hearings, but his sympathy with conservatives is clear.

Donald Trump's "America First" budget puts working-class communities last--with drastic cuts to library funding.

The head of the Treasury office in charge of regulating banks has a lot of experience... protecting banks from Treasury regulations.

Jared Kushner is the pampered heir of a business empire, but that's not the only thing he has in common with his father-in-law.

The Religious Right has a loyal friend in Donald Trump, whose administration is out to gut women's access to contraception.