On Saturday, October 3, the Power to the People festival, organized by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, took over the stage at the Merriweathe...

Trump held a campaign rally tonight in Mobile, Alabama, the city where, as Shawn McCreesh of the New York Times recalled, his MAGA rallies really took off in August 2015, when more than 30,000 people ...

John Hudson of the Washington Post reported this evening that the Trump administration is openly defying Congress, taking $52 million in military assistance lawmakers appropriated for European and Mid...

A Washington Post headline today read: “U.S.

The scene that unfolded today at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee was a snapshot of politics in the U.S.

Republicans still turn a blind eye to the Jan 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol

The White House airs Trump campaign ads paid by you

It has become routine for Trump to spend the weekend posting wildly on social media, and this weekend was no exception.

Trump explains to the Chinese president how he’s destroying democracy

U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall established deeper roots than previously disclosed in Sarasota, Florida, where he had a vacation home that he traveled to on official business and said he used for visiting fa...

Trump’s war on the free press is continuing.

I learned late this afternoon that, in addition to being Dolly Parton Day, today is National Lobster Day, honoring the cultural and economic history of the lobster industry.

After a hearing yesterday about Trump’s Friday ban of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House campus, very early this morning—I was still awake writing yesterday’s letter—U.S.

and the American people are paying for it

Yesterday, William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Molly Redden, and Kirsten Berg of ProPublica published a blockbuster story reporting that the anti-corruption group of the Federal Bureau of Investigatio...

Daniel Drezner says we are now in the Wile E. Coyote phase...

He’s been a darling of Trump voters around the country. In Ohio, not so much.

In 1945, still reeling from World War II, representatives from 50 nations reached back to the U.S.

The manosphere celeb faces three counts stemming from an alleged encounter with a minor.

and continues his attacks on our Free Press

On September 18, while White House chief of staff Susie Wiles was out of town, Trump suddenly announced he was banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House.

Thousands of people gathered outside the John F.

According to the American Automobile Association, diesel hit its highest recorded average price today at just above $6.44 per gallon.

Non-disclosure agreements allow data center owners and a small group of insiders to “negotiate” a raw deal for area residents by hiding essential details from the public.

makes a run for it

In 1761, 55-year-old Benjamin Franklin attended the coronation of King George III and later wrote that he expected the young monarch’s reign would “be happy and truly glorious.” Fifteen years later, i...

Yesterday U.S.

*UPDATE: Trump’s Name Must Stay Off Kennedy Center, Judge Rules

Seven years ago, on September 15, 2019, after about a six-week hiatus during the summer, I wrote a Facebook post that started:

This morning, Justin Elliott, Brett Murphy, Joshua Kaplan, and Alex Mierjeski of ProPublica broke the news that Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin, spent hundreds of thousands of...

On Saturday, September 12, Dario Amodei, the chief executive officer of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, published a 3,800-word essay calling for AI companies to slow down their improvem...

On Thursday, in The New Republic, conservative judge J.

Last night was the second night of the Republican midterm convention Trump staged to fire up his base.

We woke up today to news that Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants have taken control of the city and seaport of Mocha and much of the shoreline of the Red Sea near the Bab el-Mandeb strait, another c...

and to stroke Trump’s ego

Yesterday, at a White House event honoring those who sacrificed their lives on 9/11, President Donald Trump went off script and claimed he had taken a crew downtown “right after this happened.

The Subscription Model Has Maxed Out

On Sunday, Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (Alternativ für Deutschland, or AfD) party won 43.8% of the vote in a legislative election in the small state of Saxony-Anhalt, formerly part of ...

The Speaker serves only Trump

Since yesterday, President Donald J.

Events of Friday, September 4, showed the Trump administration in a nutshell.

Election analyst Charlie Cook told Republicans today to “brace themselves” for the midterms.

A number of pundits, especially Republican pundits, interpreted Trump’s win in 2024 as a permanent political realignment proving that post–World War II liberalism was dead.