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“I’m profoundly disturbed about the apparent direction of the court,” J. Michael Luttig told me. “I now believe that it is unlikely Trump will...
Has Donald Trump betrayed the anti-abortion movement? It’s a hard case to make against the president who appointed the Supreme Court justices...
This week, the Supreme Court managed to fail to meet the already extremely low expectations most sane people already had for it. First, during the...
During Wednesday’s Supreme Court arguments over life-saving abortions in emergency rooms, a few things became clear: The male justices are...
The New York Post found a way to peg the nationwide, pro-Palestine student protests on billionaire investor and hedge fund manager George Soros on...
A former associate of Rudy Giuliani has blown open the Hunter Biden laptop story, revealing that Donald Trump and his associates decided to target...
On the day Donald Trump took office in January 2017, pondering what he might do to the country’s democratic norms and institutions, I wrote these...
In Luca Guadagnino’s 2022 film, Bones and All , Maren (Taylor Russell) and Lee (Timothee Chalamet) were cannibals in love. “I don’t wanna hurt...
An excellent new Politico report by Eli Stokols has exposed deep tensions between The New York Times and the White House. President Biden’s team...
Rudolph Giuliani’s defense against facing criminal charges for his involvement in Arizona’s fake elector plot is not exactly a good one: He’s...
At the turn of the century, the Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam published Bowling Alone , a data-heavy book about the collapse of civic...
Donald Trump’s shortlist for his running mate is full of the right wing’s worst political stars—aside from himself, that is. But reported...
Remember when people weren’t even sure climate change was real? According to a new CBS News poll, 70 percent of Americans support the “U.S....
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, suspended an account owned by the grandson of former South African President Nelson Mandela on Friday....
Donald Trump’s hush-money trial is revealing new details from his life, including things that even some of the people in his inner circle didn’t...
Donald Trump’s attorney Alina Habba shared an interesting explanation for why the former president has been holding on to printouts of news...
Maryland Representative Jamie Raskin took aim at a peculiar line of questioning brought by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in Donald Trump’s...
An old-friend-turned-witness against Donald Trump in the former president’s New York hush-money trial has spent the better part of the week...
Donald Trump has yet another complaint in his hush-money trial: the courtroom is too cold, and he thinks it’s deliberate. Trump made the claim...
To fully grasp the current situation in San Francisco, where venture capitalists are trying to take control of City Hall, you must listen to Balaji...
During his testimony in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial on Thursday, former tabloid magnate David Pecker wasted no time in blaming Trump...
Donald Trump’s old friend David Pecker is still dishing the dirt on the stand in the real estate mogul’s New York hush money trial, revealing...
Now that the House has passed military aid to Ukraine, MAGA personalities like Donald Trump Jr. and Tucker Carlson have joined Marjorie Taylor...
Conservative groups believe the United States already has a national abortion ban on the books, just waiting to be enforced: It’s the Comstock Act...
Last week, House Speaker Mike Johnson channeled Arthur Vandenberg as he adroitly steered desperately badly needed military aid to Ukraine around...
Elon Musk is prone to strange asides in all aspects of his life, but Tesla’s quarterly earnings call earlier this week found him in rare form:...
This week’s passage of a military aid package to Ukraine means that Donald Trump’s efforts to block American provisions for Kyiv have, for the...
It’s no big deal, he said. When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis last week signed a bill allowing religious chaplains into public schools, he insisted...
The UAW’s successful unionization effort last week at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee—the first successful unionization effort at a...
Donald Trump’s lawyer pushed an outrageous line of thinking on Thursday during oral arguments at the Supreme Court over whether the former...
This week, coverage of the campus protests and solidarity encampments at Columbia University reached a fever pitch. They have attracted statements...
Thursday’s oral argument in United States v. Trump might have been the most surreal session ever held in the Supreme Court’s 235-year history....
Disgraced Hollywood producer and serial abuser Harvey Weinstein had his 2020 rape conviction overturned by a New York appeals court on Thursday,...
Donald Trump’s old friend-turned-key-witness in his New York hush money trial blatantly admitted Thursday that he violated campaign finance laws...
One of Donald Trump’s most visible attorneys just made another legal faux pax—but this time, the person most upset with her might be her own...
Arizona has indicted nearly two dozen of Donald Trump’s allies and affiliates for their alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including...
Donald Trump is going to have to pony up $83 million to E. Jean Carroll after all, after a judge on Thursday struck down Trump’s latest attempt...
Donald Trump couldn’t resist throwing an insult at the latest high-profile Republican to endorse him: his former attorney general, Bill Barr. In...
April 23 marked a defining moment for the Biden administration, a watershed of multiple significant actions to protect the interests of working...
Uvalde parent Brett Cross has some words for Texas police, after their brutal crackdown on Texas university students protesting against Israel’s...
A Michigan state investigator revealed in court Wednesday that Donald Trump, his former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and his former...
Donald Trump is still furious that he has to follow the same rules in his New York hush-money trial as every other U.S citizen—mainly, that he...
Donald Trump is in the tank for 91 criminal charges and four criminal trials—but how he’s paying for all his legal counsel could also be putting...
Donald Trump’s social media company has lost so much money that the CEO is asking Congress to look into what might be causing it. Devin Nunes,...
Judge James Ho has one of the best jobs in the world right now. Thanks to the quirks of federal case assignment rules and the winds of political...
Every presidential election is billed as the most important of our lifetime. But in 2020, voters seemed to actually believe it. Amid the Covid-19...
Tennessee House Republicans have pushed through a bill that will allow teachers and staff to carry guns in public schools, causing the viewing...
On Monday, Earth Day, Joe Biden highlighted several steps his administration is taking to make good on its climate goals: using $7 billion from the...
Donald Trump must sense the walls closing in. At 2:00 a.m. Wednesday morning, the former president begged Republicans to step in and save him from...
New polls this week served up a surprise: They showed Robert F. Kennedy’s presidential run pulling more support from Donald Trump than from...
Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil who is barred from seeking public office until 2030, held a grievance-laden rally Sunday in Rio de...
Early in the fifteenth century, an anonymous text on how to face death appeared. Titled Speculum artis bene moriendi (The Mirror of the Art of...
George Santos just pulled another fast one on… well, anybody who still believed in George Santos. The disgraced former lawmaker dropped his...
The Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments in United States v. Idaho Wednesday—and it was not smooth sailing for the Gem State and its...
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s futile fight to stop aid to Ukraine, and her weak attempt to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, has not endeared her to fellow...
While much of the ignorant takes about Columbia University’s pro-Palestine divestment protests have come from the right, Democratic...
I can’t account for the mainstream press’s peculiar impulse to downplay the United Auto Workers’ important victory Friday at a Volkswagen plant...
After a large bill approving aid for Ukraine and Israel passed the Senate Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell stood triumphant—and...
The Supreme Court will hear another abortion case on Wednesday, providing the nation’s highest court with another opportunity to ban the medical...
The Supreme Court appeared to be split on Monday on whether an Oregon city’s ordinances that make it illegal to sleep outdoors in public spaces...
If the Supreme Court takes its time in handing down a ruling on Donald Trump’s demand for absolute immunity for insurrection-related crimes,...
An attorney for Donald Trump’s legal defense in his New York criminal trial took a serious misstep on Tuesday that resulted in a critical warning...
A longtime friend of Donald Trump’s admitted on the stand Tuesday that their relationship had devolved into an orchestrated scheme to influence...
A former associate of Rudy Giuliani is still dishing out the dirt on the inner machinations of Donald Trump’s administration. Lev Parnas, a...
Another conservative appeared to be sour on House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday amid what has turned out to be a major party upheaval. Texas...
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner, that lavish, storied fundraiser held every April at the Washington Hilton to honor journalists covering...
Now that Mike Johnson allowed Ukraine aid to pass the House on a broad bipartisan basis, an enraged Marjorie Taylor Greene is ramping up her...
Donald Trump claimed that a massive police presence has shut down traffic for blocks around the Manhattan courthouse where his hush-money trial is...
Republicans have started commenting on the Columbia University protests staged in support of Gaza—and unsurprisingly, the comments have been...
It seems Donald Trump didn’t want to leave any trace of certain conversations with a tabloid magnate just before the 2016 election. During...
Donald Trump allegedly asked his valet Walt Nauta to lie to the FBI about whether the former president was hoarding classified documents, promising...
Allow me to impart some important life advice: Do not divorce, or allow yourself to be divorced by, a memoirist. Regardless of what a marital saint...
A newly unsealed FBI interview with an unidentified Trumpworld character unearths some eyebrow-raising details regarding Donald Trump’s...
Donald Trump’s attorney Alina Habba should be more careful speaking. Habba, who is not representing Trump in his hush-money trial, still showed up...
Donald Trump took aim at Joe Biden on Monday for trying to ban TikTok, conveniently forgetting how hard he worked to ban the popular app during his...