Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesListen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.After confusing Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi, and Barack Obama with Joe Biden on two separate occasions last month, former U.S. President Donald Trump apparently tried to put any questions about his cognitive abilities to rest last Saturday.Speaking at a rally in Las Vegas, the 77-year-old claimed to have aced a cognitive test given to hi
Donald Trump keeps using his relation to a famed MIT professor as proof of his intelligence. But as The New Abnormal team points out smart people often have dumb relatives.
Getty ImagesThe Supreme Court shocked just about everyone when conservative justices John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh sided with their progressive colleagues to rule that Alabama’s recently redrawn congressional maps discriminated against Black voters.Author David Daley, a senior fellow of voting rights advocacy group FairVote, told The New Abnormal’s Danielle Moodie what makes the decision all the more extraordinary is that Chief Justice Roberts has made “his life’s work to try and gut the Voti
Author David Daley tells The New Abnormal that while the Supreme Court’s Alabama decision is a win for democracy, it may be a PR move by conservative justices.