Courts

The Right Found Its Perfect Horror Story. The System It Ignores Is the Real One.

A pharmaceutical delivery driver walks into the home of a wheelchair-bound woman in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and sexually assaults her. Qaisar Ali, 39, of Brockton, now faces charges including assault…

Money

Trump Media’s $238 Million Quarter Is the Least Interesting Scandal Here

Trump Media's new chief executive, Kevin McGurn, used Monday's earnings call to unveil the company's growth strategy: a service called Truth API that sells early access to posts by Donald…

POTUS

Obama Locked Black Staffers Out of the Ferguson Room. The Sherrod Firing Tells You He Meant It.

The claim that Black aides were physically excluded from the room where the administration deliberated its response to the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, is not a…

Courts

Impeaching Federalist Society Judges Is the Constitutional Response to a Captured Court

The Federalist Society did not stumble into power. It was built for this. Launched in 1982 at Yale and the University of Chicago, it has spent four decades credentialing the…

Congress

Lauren Underwood Just Told Us Where the Real Fight Is

Rep. Lauren Underwood has chosen the most powerful way to defend our values: helping Democrats win back the House to hold Donald Trump accountable, rather than chasing a Senate seat.

Congress

Vote Blue No Matter Who, Unless the DSA Wins the Primary

The Democratic coalition has always contained the seeds of its own dissolution. This is not a controversial observation among political scientists. Maurice Duverger gave us the formal proof in 1951:…

Money

Hank Green’s Inquisition: When Science Fans Become the Inquisitors

A community organized around enthusiasm for science has decided that a particular category of computational tool is not science but its antithesis, and that anyone who touches it has committed…

Congress

Massachusetts Strips Its Last Abortion Restriction, Because Arbitrary Lines Were Never Medicine

Governor Maura Healey is expected to sign H.5595, a bill that removes the 24-week gestational limit on abortion in Massachusetts, replacing it with a standard that defers entirely to the…

POTUS

Bill Cassidy Got Played

Sen. Bill Cassidy spent 30 years as a physician telling parents that vaccines save lives. Then he handed the keys of the nation's public health apparatus to a man who…

Courts

Shanquella Robinson’s Mother Is Begging a Court to Do What Two Governments Wouldn’t

Nearly four years after Shanquella Robinson was found dead in a Cabo San Lucas villa, her mother is turning to a North Carolina judge to force one of her travel…