SINCERETALK

Actor Matthew Rhys’ longtime partner and fellow actress Keri Russell discussed their Emmy nominations in an interview with Variety . Rhys chatted about his roles in Widow’s Bay and The Beast in Me , and Russell discussed her nomination for The Diplomat. But even though President Donald Trump and the chaos politics surrounding him and the White House did not factor into the isolated world of the northeastern island that served as Widow’s Bay’s setting there was no banishing the controversial president form the exchange. As they discussed the popularity of Widow’s Bay, Russell said she appreciated the “escape” the show provided the audience — even if it buries modern American politics in the drip-drip creepiness that plagues the beleaguered island inhabitants. “It’s also such a delightful departure from the s—— that we’re in,” Russell told Variety. “Do you know what I mean? There is not a mention in the show so far for me about what’s happening — the destruction of our country,” “Righ...

National security analyst David Rothkopf tells the Daily Beast that President Donald Trump is a decaying husk of a man these days, but his gooey meat is delicious to the right kind of vulture. “We are watching the president ripen and rot before our very eyes,” said Rothkopf. “If he were a banana, he’d be in the trash right now — or, at best, on his way into a recipe for banana bread. From swollen ankles and bruised hands, we’ve watched this deterioration progress with each passing day. This week saw a progression of bruises up his arms. He is barely able to stay awake at virtually any public function he attends. His behavior is erratic. His already limited vocabulary is increasingly beyond his recall. He needs to be propped up when he walks any distance at all. According to reports, he emits strange odors.” “It’s not pretty,” Rothkopf adds. And given Trump’s power and responsibilities, this brand of high-speed decay should be a source of alarm and action. It’s not enough for Trum...

President Donald Trump is flagging in polls , suggesting that he and the Republican Party are in peril for the upcoming midterm elections . Yet according to a recent report, Trump's plan for dealing with his poor approval rating is not to provide economic relief to ordinary Americans suffering from high prices and a weak job market, but to give even more benefits to the wealthy. "President Donald Trump is looking for new policy pledges he can present to voters ahead of the midterm election, according to a top economic aide and a former administration official, including potentially calling on Congress to cut capital gains taxes and create an exemption for certain home sales," reported Bloomberg's Josh Wingrove on Tuesday . "National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Tuesday in an interview with Fox Business host Larry Kudlow that Trump wants to offer voters more incentives to back Republicans in November’s election." Even as Trump proposes an eco...

U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn is losing patience with a billionaire Republican donor as he delays his 12-year sentence, according to the Charlotte Observer . “A federal judge warned Durham billionaire Greg Lindberg during a heated Monday morning hearing that he was ‘overestimating his intelligence’ by continuing to shuffle through lawyers and fight about how much restitution he must pay for bribing a North Carolina official and orchestrating a $2 billion scheme to defraud insurance companies.” Lindberg, founder and CEO of the private equity firm Eli Global LLC — renamed Global Growth — was recently sentenced to more than a decade in prison. But that was a “lighter sentence” option made possible by Lindberg’s proactive payments to his victims, U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn pointed out. A special master in charge of determining Lindberg’s restitution said he still owes more than $1.6 billion, but Lindberg says he doesn’t and has pulled in a new attorney to argue that the special mas...

When President Donald Trump attacked former Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell and replaced him with loyalist Kevin Warsh , it became clear that one of America’s most important financial institutions could be compromised by Trump’s political wishes. Now a right-wing newspaper, The Wall Street Journal, is running an editorial by a prominent conservative on how to retain the Fed’s independence from a Republican president. “The independence of the Federal Reserve is in peril. In Trump v. Slaughter, the Supreme Court vastly expanded the president’s power over so-called independent agencies,” Alton Frye, presidential senior fellow emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations and a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, wrote on Tuesday . “In Trump v. Cook, decided the same day, the court recognized the unique standing of the Federal Reserve Board but left its independence in a precarious state. The vote was 5-4. If the Federal Reserve’s independence is to be protected, ...

American Christians have been “manipulated” into obeying President Donald Trump “ without question ” – a situation that is not only counter to their own teachings, but sets them on a path to “destruction.” This is according to Catholic historian Henry Karlson , who on Monday wrote a warning to his fellow faithful in which he explained the contradiction of their Christian nationalism and worship of Trump. “I find it extremely disheartening to see many Christians either accept what Trump does, obeying him without question, or outright promoting his agenda,” writes Karlson. “Christians are not expected to obey Trump in all things. We are expected to follow our conscience. We must recognize proper law and order follows and promotes the common good, not the personal desires and vices of one man.” “While this is something everyone should know,” says Karlson, “I find Christians often are the ones who must be reminded of this as they are the ones giving the greatest defense for Trump and his ...