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This past weekend’s massacre in Buffalo has put a deserved spotlight on Elise Stefanik, Tucker Carlson, Newt Gingrich, Matt Gaetz, J.D. Vance and...
Washington’s reaction to the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade has been typically myopic. Republicans first tried to make...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has raised the possibility of a nationwide abortion ban if his Republicans gain control of government, but he...
Many have speculated that Samuel Alito, in his draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, is trying to take us back to the 1950s, when White Christian men...
So Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell thinks the leak of the Supreme Court’s draft opinion overturning Roe is a “toxic spectacle” and an...
Republicans have been cagey about what their agenda would be if they gain control of Congress in November. “I’ll let you know when we take it...
The patriarchy is in full strut. A lot of men have been acting like turkeys these days, with Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) hailing “manly virtues” such...
It was quite a month for young Madison Cawthorn. The 26-year-old Republican congressman from North Carolina was caught bringing a loaded gun through...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s election-year scheme to bus migrants to Washington has driven itself into a ditch. Three weeks ago, the Republican...
The Great Prevaricator stood on the banks of the Rio Grande and released a mighty river of deceit. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, in a news...
Mickey Mouse needs a sanctuary city. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Hades) got his state legislature this week to abolish the favorable tax arrangement that...
When Florida released the names Monday of the 54 math textbooks it had rejected, most for allegedly including “critical race theory” or other...
With the pandemic fading (at least for now), there are fewer occasions to swallow ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine or to inject oneself with bleach....
There were even more vermin than usual in Washington this week. A rabid fox at the Capitol bit at least nine people, including Rep. Ami Bera...
Retirement has been good to Barack Obama. The 44th president returned to the White House Tuesday for the first time since he left office five years...
Judging by the numbers, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are obsessed with child pornography. In four days of Supreme Court confirmation...
There is almost nothing I wouldn’t do for you, dear reader, and this week, in your behalf, I made a painful sacrifice: I joined Truth Social so you...
Give Koch Industries credit for consistency: It’s aiding the foes of democracy at home and abroad. In the two weeks since I wrote about U.S....
The Ginni Thomas text messages revive a question that has been nagging me since the dawn of the Trump era: What makes smart people say truly stupid...
Rich, Ivy-educated Republicans are as elite as anybody they rail against.
Sen. Ted Cruz seldom overlooks a chance to be underhanded, and, sure enough, the Texas Republican led the effort to imbue this week’s Supreme...
The demagogue doubled down. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), the insurrectionist lawmaker who voted to overturn the 2020 election results and pumped a...
Instead of moving forward with daylight saving time, legislators should turn back time.
In his gut-wrenching address to Congress, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked the United States for more — and more he will get. U.S....
Republicans are killing us. No, really. Until now, we’ve known that covid-19 death rates were higher among the unvaccinated, and also higher in...
Suppose, for a moment, that the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the group overseeing the 2022 campaigns of all Democratic...
A cynic is rarely disappointed by this Republican Party. Yet even by that standard, the current attempt to blame President Biden — and absolve...
Why continue this long, strange trip? Maybe Q told them to.
Have you heard about how Bill Barr saved democracy? It’s all there — in this new book by, er, Bill Barr. In excerpts published Thursday in the...
It’s a case of the pot calling the kettle dark. Last week, on the very day President Biden announced his nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the...
After her fellow Republicans booted her from party leadership last year, Rep. Liz Cheney posed a question: “Do we hate our political adversaries...
The times, they are a-changin’. Last month, when antiabortion activists and anti-vaccine protesters staged mass protests in the capital, speakers...
The good news: All hope is not lost for the Republican Party to recover its principles. The bad news: Eighty-six percent of hope is lost for the...
This is the story of how Republicans learned to love frivolous lawsuits. For decades, GOP leaders railed against “junk lawsuits” and...
God bless those crafty wordsmiths of the Republican Party! The people who gave us “alternative facts,” “enhanced interrogation techniques,”...
Kevin McCarthy and his House Republican leadership team have called on Newt Gingrich to advise them on their midterm election strategy, The...
Not only is Virginia’s new Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin banning the fictional menace of critical race theory from public schools, but he’s...
The president never called concerned parents “domestic terrorists.” But don't tell that to Fox News.
Is it any wonder the Republican Party’s moral integrity has fallen so far, so fast?
Facebook's 24-hour ban of Greene is just the latest evidence of its irresponsibility.
The GOP is redistricting its way to a permanent majority.
The former Alaska governor's talk of "dead bodies" is on point.
The upcoming book 'How Civil Wars Start' lays out a scary future.
The PowerPoint that landed in Mark Meadows's inbox shows he's guilty of contempt of competence.
There is an admirable definition of manliness — characterized by honor, integrity and grace — and then there is the view of the Republican...
An AI study shows it's not just our imagination.
Justice for he who yells the loudest.
And Republican leaders have divested themselves of shame.