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After several days of relentless attacks on the FBI from Fox News hosts, Republican partisans, and countless Republican lawmakers, an attack on the...
The big news yesterday remained Ukrainian's massively successful attack on a Russian airbase in Crimea, but in the early evening hours an explosion at...
The apparent Ukrainian strike against a Russian military base in occupied Crimea may turn out to be one of the most consequential of the war to date;...
This has been floating around, but is worth confirming: Yes, the felony Donald Trump is suspected of committing—moving classified national security...
The biggest story on the front lines today—or rather, a very long distance behind them—continues to be the successful Ukrainian strike on the...
The first-ever FBI search warrant served against a former U.S. president is still the big news in the country, but we still don't know much more about...
The Republican/fascist/militia outrage over the FBI obtaining a search warrant to go hunt for documents at Trump's for-profit Florida home is still...
There's big developments both inside and outside Ukraine today, so let's get right to it. On Monday, the Biden administration announced another $1...
Well, that is … something. It was a very busy day for Republican crimes and humiliations—so busy that we can't even mention more than a scrap of...
The Republican Party's plan to find all the worst people in America and run them for office just keeps on going. This time it's Kim Crockett, who has...
Matthew DePerno is the Republican nominee for attorney general in Michigan. He won that position for one reason and one reason only: He was a fervent...
The evenly divided Senate finally, finally passed the reconciliation package known as the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 today. The vote was 51-50...
The Senate has voted to approve the reconciliation measure known as the Inflation Reduction Act today, after spending well over 24 hours in continuous...
Ukrainian fury over a report from Amnesty International released last week—a report that blames the Ukrainian military for fighting in urban areas,...
As the Manchin-Schumer Senate deal inches toward its first vote, all eyes are on the one Democratic senator known for scuttling past party deals:...
One of the first questions, when Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced a $740 billion deal with Sen. Joe Manchin battling climate change and...
The New York Times has another mini-scoop from Trumpland, but the headline news is probably less interesting (and much less funny) than the details....
Republicans will never, ever stop trying to cut people's Social Security. They're also never going to stop saying so, at every apparent opportunity....
Tuesday's elections resulted in one big surprise, as Kansas voters overwhelmingly crushed an attempt by state Republicans to curtail abortion rights....
Well, the results are mostly in from the hellscape of the Arizona Republican primaries and we now have our answer. Arizona Republican voters want...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan today—and the Chinese government had an absolute meltdown over the visit, responding with...
A week ago, Senate Republicans engaged in some of that famous "debate" the body remains so proud of by blocking a bill funding medical care for...
Donald J. Trump is a child. He's also a traitorous criminal and a whole bunch of other things, but when it comes to getting through each day the man...
This long piece in The Washington Post describing the next round of anti-abortion legal battles is a bit all over the map, but that's mostly because...
The first Jan. 6 insurrectionist to stand trial has now received his sentence, as a federal judge hands down 87 months of prison time for militia...
There is something about the desert southwest that breeds conspiracy theories. Maybe it's a result of uranium mining. Maybe there's something in the...
You may, in your life, make a lot of poor choices. You may have regrets. But no matter who you are or what your circumstances, remember this advice:...
According to our entire press corps, the price of gas is a political story. Not a story of world-bending pandemic instabilities, or one of the few...
The Senate dance of determining what Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin will vote for took another turn yesterday with an announcement that he'd agreed to...
There was once talk that Fox News was in desperate trouble, in danger of losing its audience to far-far-right upstart networks willing to tell much...
There's been newly visible movement in the Department of Justice's own investigation of the Jan. 6 coup attempt, with new indications that prosecutors...
Oof. This long look in The Washington Post at the small, influential, and extremely far-right "Claremont Institute" think tank has been desperately...
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform has released its report on the American assault rifle industry in the wake of more mass murders than it...
The news that a federal grand jury heard testimony from former Vice President Mike Pence's top lieutenant reminds us that yes, the Justice Department...
The evidence that Donald J. Trump attempted to overthrow the United States government on Jan. 6, 2021 is overwhelming, and the House select committee...
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 coup attempt has released yet more evidence of Trump's intent on that day, this time with Trump's...
One of the many, many, many reasons to fear for the safety of democracy in the United States is that there is something called a "constitutional...
In the news this weekend: Far-right extremist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene jumps farther right, yet again, while fellow stain on the Republican and...
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 coup attempt focused its evening hearing on the coup itself: the actions of Donald Trump on and...
President Joe Biden announced executive actions to battle climate change today, even as record heat blasted much of the United States and Europe....
Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the NAACP on Monday, and if you've heard about it at all it's probably because of a portion of her speech that...
The Secret Service today told the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 coup attempt that they double-checked and sure enough, all of the...
Donald Trump adviser and coup supporter Steve Bannon's trial for criminal contempt of Congress began with jury selection today; given the glibness...
It didn't take long for the Supreme Court decision erasing federal abortion protections to become a Republican demand that the federal government...
In September 2020, a Minneapolis Trump supporter's home was savagely attacked by antifa. Or possibly by BLM supporters. Or by Biden-supporting...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau exists to keep consumers from being scammed. That's it. Its very existence was staunchly opposed by the...
In the news today: The Secret Service had perhaps the best view of anyone into what transpired during the Jan. 6 coup attempt by Donald Trump, but the...