Please join me in a moment of silence to mourn the end of the bromance between Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Its demise was inevitable. There is only so much room for two narcissists to occupy one space. CBS News interviewed Musk about ending his role with the government, and he said the criticism of…

There is a lake of extraordinary tranquility near where I reside. I occasionally make my way there to relax and think about the world. As you know, being outdoors is often where one gets the most clarity of thought. And sometimes, the sweetly beguiling lake whispers inspire me when it comes to politics as well.…

For all of the incoherent nonsense that comes out of his mouth and all the random rabbit holes that he goes down, the one consistent thing about Donald Trump is that he’s subservient to Vladimir Putin. We’ve all spent a decade trying to piece together how much of this may be due to money, blackmail,…

Donald Trump doesn’t care. He doesn’t care about U.S. citizens (unless they’re white and rich), he doesn’t care about norms, and he certainly doesn’t care about people’s impressions of him. He attended West Point’s graduation ceremonies this past weekend, wearing a MAGA hat. This is wildly inappropriate. In fact, one writer at RawStory opined that…

The term “big, beautiful bill” sounds as dumb as the man who coined it. Esquire agreed to call it that because “we have a toddler in the White House.” It is still so hard to fathom that people wanted this waste of flesh back in the White House, and while doing so, gave him a…

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

Coloring curly hair is a little different from straight hair. It needs special care and extra love because it's naturally dry.

Donald Trump’s social media posts have always been horrifying, often incoherent, and usually illiterate. But now his social media presence has become something else entirely: boring. It’s not just that Trump never really did return to Twitter, and instead prefers to shout into the abyss on his own failed social network. It’s that PT Barnum’s…

On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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The FAA ordered an independent panel hired to recommend ways to strengthen oversight of its air traffic control operations to stop work.

The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful re-imagination of Huckleberry Finn.

Rural voters have long been a cornerstone of Trump's base, and any slippage in their support could have major implications for future Republican success.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has not given any press briefings in the briefing room but has used the room as a backdrop for TV hits with Fox News.