Greetings and welcome to this 36th episode of the Carnival of Fools! This may be the last one we stage in this dusty old theater, as mysterious foreign donors have just offered to upgrade the Carnival ...

Back on planet Earth, meanwhile, we saw many instances this week of the Trump swamp in action, and it’s far worse than anything we’ve ever seen before in this country. Of course every week of this ...

When it came to building Washington, D.C., "drain the swamp" was a very literal phrase. How did this capital city rise from ...

José “Pepe” Mujica, the former president of Uruguay, at his modest home on the outskirts of Montevideo last year.Credit...Dado Galdieri for The New York Times Supported by By Jack Nicas Jack ...

He called the bill a “joke” and wrote “the swamp is real,” a clear reference to Trump’s original campaign promise to “drain the swamp” of Washington, D.C., insiders. The proposal to ...

Former Uruguayan President José Mujica, known as “Pepe,” who is known as the world’s “poorest president” because of his modest lifestyle, has died at the age of 89. Pepe governed ...

He called the bill a “joke” and wrote “the swamp is real,” a clear reference to Trump’s original campaign promise to “drain the swamp” of Washington, D.C., insiders.

“President Trump promised to drain the swamp. This is not, in fact, draining the swamp.” Even in Washington, a capital now numbed to scandals that were once unthinkable, the idea of accepting ...

Foreign dignitaries or journalists who sought an audience with “El Pepe” usually had to trek to his scrabbly farm with its three-roomed concrete house where he lived for the last 40 years of ...

José “Pepe” Mujica, former president of Uruguay, died at 89 after battling cancer. He became the first head of state in the world to legalize all forms of cannabis in 2013. Mujica’s policy ...

“We asked him to drain the swamp, not swim in it, but at least he has all of his vaccinations,” Gutfeld said with a laugh. “I love this guy. He is what we used to call in the old days an ...