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Mark Zuckerberg wants "masculine energy" and "aggression" at the office — sounds like a toxic workplace
MAGA "populism" was always an inch deep — Trump's billionaire-palooza proves it
Hegseth's excuses for his misogyny contradict each other, but MAGA doesn't care
Jesse Watters implied women are too stupid to run fire departments — most LA fire department leaders are men
Evangelicals loved Jimmy Carter — until his anti-racism turned them against him
In part because of his goofy appearance and in part because he doesn't engage in fascist trolling like fellow billionaire Elon Musk, Mark...
One cannot say for certain that Rep. Mike Johnson was deliberately lying during his acceptance speech to return as Speaker of the House. He read...
As I noted in passing last week, the striking thing about the life of Shamsud-Din Jabbar is how much it reads like the boilerplate biography of...
In the hours after a mass murderer killed 10 people in New Orleans with a combination car and gun attack only hours into the new year, there was...
Abortion bans don't just kill women. They kill babies. This is evident in the data, which shows a dramatic rise in the state's infant mortality...
In the press, the intra-MAGA spat pitting wealthy tech bros Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy against the larger MAGA masses has been framed primarily...
In the face of Vice President Kamala Harris losing the presidential election to Donald Trump, the punditry's focus has been almost exclusively on...
The more Donald Trump denies he's being controlled by billionaire Elon Musk, who purchased the president-elect with over $250 million in campaign...
Early last week, Democrats seemed to be hitting new lows in the post-election slump. Progressives were especially demoralized by the failure to...
Let's get one thing out of the way: Robert F. Kennedy's claim that he wants to "make America healthy again" is, like most things he says, a...
I was already glad about the upcoming TikTok ban, but now I have one more reason to be happy about it: the site's minitrend of women "pranking"...
"People are saying if you have a conservative family member, don't invite them to Thanksgiving or Christmas. Like, stay away from them," TikToker...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sure is lucky in his timing. The former Democrat turned MAGA conspiracy theorist has a series of meetings with Senate...
Far-right pastor Lance Wallnau is incredibly upset over the burgeoning controversies regarding Donald Trump's nominee for Defense Secretary, Pete...
While this was never explicitly stated, one of Donald Trump's most obvious campaign promises to his mostly-male fan base was that he could bring...
Shortly after Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, he announced, with great fanfare, that billionaire Elon Musk and professional troll...
Even by the reality-TV chaos standards of our political moment, this one was a doozy: Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Department...
After the Supreme Court ended federal abortion rights in 2022, there was a robust debate between pro- and anti-choice activists over whether or not...
If it wasn't for the American addiction to disinformation, Vice President Kamala Harris would have won the 2024 election. There's a lot of...
It's not a coincidence that Donald Trump's nominee for Education Secretary, Linda McMahon, is the defendant in a lawsuit alleging that she ignored...
Donald Trump isn't even in the White House yet, and already he's failing. Matt Gaetz, the trolliest of Trump's "Legion of Doom" Cabinet appointees,...
First things first: It is absolutely the case that the harassment of Sarah McBride, the newly elected Democratic representative from Delaware, is...
It seems unshakeable, the Beltway press's faith that Christian conservatives mean all that jibber-jabber about sexual morality. On Sunday, CNN's...
Having endured Donald Trump in their faces for nearly a decade now, one would think more Republicans would understand better the man they've kept...
In these dark times, it's more important than ever to nurse tendrils of joy. So it is a great pleasure to watch all the Republican leaders who...
When considering the reasons why Donald Trump picked a Fox News blowhard to run the near-trillion-dollar U.S. military, it's important to remember...
It is not women's responsibility to use sex to cajole men into sucking less. First of all: Gross. Second of all, there's no evidence that sexual...
In the wake of Donald Trump's devastating win last week, Democrats have fallen back on an old habit and are now trying to coax better behavior out...
Perhaps out of fear of insulting their audiences, the pundits, journalists, and political consultants engaged in the lengthy post-mortem about...
For days and weeks to come, there will be endless analyses of how Donald Trump, a convicted criminal who fomented an insurrection and was found...
WASHINGTON D.C. — I woke up on Election Day wearing fuzzy feline headgear. My brown tabby, Joey, had wrapped his paws around my head and was...
When it comes to political bait, it was the tastiest sort: a cheeky ad run by Vote Common Good, and voiced by Julia Roberts, reminding women that...
For all his endless rambling nonsense, Donald Trump's message can be boiled down to a simple lie: If one group of people does well, it must...
Donald Trump's favorite word when talking about abortion bans is "beautiful." When asked in June on Fox News about the states passing abortion bans...
Much has been made out of the fact that Donald Trump's campaign did nix one "joke" in the now-infamous speech by podcast host Tony Hinchcliffe...
In the days since Donald Trump's hate-filled rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, what's striking is the pettiness of the stakes MAGA...
Last week, the Washington Post reported that Tesla CEO and Donald Trump super-fan Elon Musk was once, to use the term favored by MAGA, an...
In my swing state of Pennsylvania, it's common for people to joke about how exhausted they are by all the campaign ads. But this year, the jokes...
It seems accidental, but there's no denying Tucker Carlson's timing. He was likely unaware that a new story about Jeffrey Epstein feeding sexual...
Donald Trump hopes he can confuse people about Vice President Kamala Harris's intelligence through sheer force of racism and repetition. "She’s...
Convicted January 6 insurrectionist and professional conspiracy theorist Owen Shroyer knows his audience wants badly to believe women are stupid,...
Anyone who's paying attention has noticed that Donald Trump isn't doing so well. First came the bizarre town hall last week, in which...
PHILADELPHIA — Melanie Barton-Gauss, a retired teacher from Florida, traveled to the City of Brotherly Love just weeks before the presidential...
After weeks of dodging and weaving, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, finally bit the bullet and endorsed the Big Lie. Donald Trump's running mate has been...
Donald Trump is so scared of questions these days that he doesn't just cancel interviews, he will stand and sway to music for 39 minutes rather...