The second Trump administration has been doing a right-wing authoritarian speedrun. The welfare state has been slashed and the machinery of state…
ve been in plenty of left-wing group chats over the years where people have said rude, offensive, or regrettable things. Iām sure…
A few weeks ago, democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won a landslide victory in the Democratic mayoral primary in New York City, defeating…
Reports about the daily drama of the second Trump administration often feel less like normal political news than recaps of a reality…
Jeff Bezos has finally dropped the pretense. The worldās third-richest man has decreed that the Washington Post, which he purchased back in 2013,…
During the first Republican debate in 2015, Donald Trump positioned himself as a bold truth-teller, almost a whistleblower, about the corrupt influence…
In 2018, right-wing commentator Dave Rubin went on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. Rubin, at that point, was calling himself a libertarian. Rogan asked him about…
A bit less than six months ago, former CNN White House correspondent John HarwoodĀ wroteĀ that āpeople who insist [Joe] Biden will pardonā his…
On Monday, Kamala Harris and the Democratic National Committee started running aĀ new attack adĀ in Pennsylvania. Thatās not noteworthy in itself. Early voting…
During the recent presidential debate, Kamala Harris once again described the Heritage Foundationās Project 2025 as Donald Trumpās plan for a second…
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