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Transcript: Trump Press Ban Backfires as Leaks Reveal Its Dark Motive
As Trump’s barring of news organizations starts appearing rooted in his fury over recent losses, a defender of democracy explains why the…
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We Need to Talk About the Apocalypse
End-times prophecy, pro-war prayer circles, Democrats as demons: Christian dominionism’s influence is everywhere in the second Trump…
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The Trump Dividend Checks Have Already Gone Out. Just Not to You.
Here are some things to remember while you’re waiting for that $5,000 the president is promising.
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Trump Admin Covering Up Number of U.S. Troops Killed in Iran War
U.S. officials say the Trump administration is hiding the real death toll from the war.
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Transcript: Fox in Meltdown as Fox’s Own Poll Turns Brutal for Trump
As Trump’s mounting failures and cratering numbers rattle Fox figures, a media critic charts the deep cognitive dissonance that Trump’s…
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The Fascists Want Trans People to Leave. I Left. But Should We All?
I moved north. Polls show many trans Americans would leave if they could. Should Canada make us an offer we can’t refuse?
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Fox in Full Meltdown as Network’s Own Poll Hits Trump with Brutal News
As Trump’s mounting failures and cratering numbers rattle Fox figures, a media critic charts the deep cognitive dissonance that Trump’s…
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Transcript: Trump Iran Humiliation Worsens as Leaks Take Damning Turn
As jarring revelations make Trump’s handling of the Iran debacle look even worse, a foreign policy expert explains how the president’s…
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Trump’s Iran Fiasco Takes Humiliating Turn as Leaks Grow More Damning
As jarring revelations make Trump’s handling of the Iran debacle look even worse, a foreign policy expert explains how the president’s…
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Transcript: Trump Rages Openly at Midterm Woes as Worst Poll Yet Drops
As an angry Trump says straight out that his failed election-theft plot will hurt the GOP in the midterms, a Democratic strategist parses…
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How the Midterms Could Shrink Red State America—and Why It Matters
Right now, there are 23 GOP “trifecta” states, and only 16 Democratic ones. That may change big time—and the ramifications are huge.
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Trump Rages Openly at Midterm Woes as His Worst Poll Yet Lands Hard
As a gold-standard poll delivers harsh news to a seething Trump, a Democratic strategist with experience in midterms explains what the…
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Transcript: Trump’s Angry New Tirades on AI Wreck GOP Midterm Strategy
As Trump badly complicates GOP efforts to appear concerned about AI’s future, the author of a piece on his midterm challenges explains how…
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Is This What It Takes to Win Ohio?
Things are looking up for Democrat Amy Acton—if she can get across the finish line.
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Trump’s Voter Fraud Quest Is Turning Illegal, Whistleblower Says
Investigators are illegally accessing state voter rolls—and likely flagging U.S. citizens as “unlawful voters” in a rushed attempt to meet…
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Iceland Just Got Played
In a high-profile rejection of EU membership talks, everyone won but the Icelandic people.
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Transcript: America’s Big Political Problem Isn’t Polarization
Academics and journalists do the far right favors when they describe American politics as polarized and desperately seek to seem neutral,…
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The Big Greedy Data Center Next Door
Data centers may be the perfect encapsulation of an economy built to benefit the already rich. After construction started on a vast…
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The Tech Bros’ War on Climate Action
Amy Westervelt’s new book exposes the deep history of today’s “information pollution.”
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Someone Should Maybe Do Something About the AI Apocalypse, Right?
The AI industry say it’s holding a doomsday gun—and warning us it will go off soon.
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Trump’s Supposed Plan for $5,000 Checks Gets Even More Unbelievable
Trump’s treasury secretary now says taxpayer funds won’t be used at all, proposing a far-fetched idea.
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Republicans’ 9/11 Smear About AOC and Mamdani Instantly Collapses
One of Rudy Giuliani’s aides debunked the claim.
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Epstein Survivors Got Kicked Out of the Republican Midterm Convention
As did the journalist who had brought them as her guests.