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Steve Benen
"The Rachel Maddow Show" producer and Maddowblog editor
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Steve Benen is a producer for "The Rachel Maddow Show," the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of "Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past."
Steve Benen is a producer for "The Rachel Maddow Show," the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of "Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past."
Today’s edition of quick hits.* The latest on the deadly ambush in Idaho: “Two firefighters were shot and killed as they responded to a brush fire near Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, authorities said.
Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.* Lara Trump expressed an interest in Florida’s Senate seat late last year, and now she’s eyeing North Carolina’s Senate seat in the wake of Sen.
Donald Trump looks at congressional rules the same way he looks at laws: as inconveniences. Take his offensive against the Senate parliamentarian, for example.
In early June, the Congressional Budget Office's assessment of the House Republicans' megabill bill was brutal. In late June, the Senate version looks worse.
While politicians have traditionally been punished for lying, Republican Sen. Thom Tillis was punished for telling truths his party didn't want to hear.
When it comes to Donald Trump and Iran, senators rejected a chance to apply some checks and balances on a White House that needs to be checked and balanced.
