Elections

Aisha Wahab Wins Swalwell’s Seat Despite $2.5 Million in AIPAC Spending Against Her

Aisha Wahab won the special election for Eric Swalwell's former California district, overcoming millions in AIPAC spending against her.

Courts

Trump Punishes Law Firms for Representing Adverse Clients

The Trump administration has issued an executive order revoking federal contracts and security clearances from Jenner & Block because the firm employed Andrew Weissmann, a former prosecutor on the Mueller…

Elections

Mike Lindell Loses by 11 Points, Demands Recount

Mike Lindell, the pillow magnate turned election-theory industrialist, lost the Republican primary for governor on August 11 by 11 percentage points to Lisa Demuth, the speaker of the Minnesota House.…

POTUS

The US Just Sanctioned Half the World’s War-Crimes Court

When a government starts sanctioning judges for doing their job, it is no longer arguing with the court. It is trying to burn the building down with the judges still…

POTUS

Trump Declares Economic Warfare on Iran, Threatens Any Nation That Aids Tehran

Trump declared 'Economic Warfare and Isolation on an unprecedented scale' against Iran, threatening 'tremendous economic consequences' for any country whose financial institutions, businesses, airports, or government entities offer Tehran what…

POTUS

750 Wounded US Service Members Wounded Since Start of Iran War

The Pentagon's war casualty database now shows 757 wounded US service members since the start of the Iran war, a figure that includes 18 deaths and more than 50 injuries…

POTUS

Trump Moves to Strip Roadless Rule, Opening 45 Million Forest Acres to Logging

The Trump administration is proposing to rescind the Roadless Rule, a 25-year-old policy that bars development like road construction and logging on nearly 45 million acres of national forest land,…

Congress

Ossoff’s Real Mistake Wasn’t Going Low. It Was Changing the Subject.

Ossoff's Real Mistake Wasn't Going Low. It Was Changing the Subject.

Elections

Mike Lindell Will Spend $825,000 to Recount an Election He Lost by 11 Points

Mike Lindell, having lost the Minnesota Republican gubernatorial primary to House Speaker Lisa Demuth by roughly 11 percentage points, announced Wednesday that he will personally fund a statewide hand recount…

POTUS

Ossoff Calls Trump a ‘Draft-Dodging, Crook President’ for Targeting War Hero Mark Kelly

Senator Jon Ossoff's 'blistering takedown' of Donald Trump is less a personal insult than a diagnosis of a structural inversion in American governance, where a president who avoided the draft…