Congress

Susan Collins and the Architecture of Performative Concern

Susan Collins has offered zero regrets for confirming RFK Jr., a move that slashed cancer research and canceled $91 million in Maine public health funding, while she now issues statements…

Congress

The Procedural Moderate: How Susan Collins Built a Career on Voting the Right Way at the Wrong Time

Maine Democrats gathered in Lewiston on Thursday for the opening stop of what they are calling their 'Retire Susan Recess' tour, and the substantive charge is straightforward enough. Collins cast…

POTUS

The Pentagon Burned Through Two-Thirds of Its Patriot Missiles, and the President Says We Have ‘Massive Amounts’

The Pentagon is pressing the U.S. defense industry to accelerate production of weapons to help replenish its diminished stockpile of munitions, including those depleted in the ongoing war with Iran.

Congress

The Accountability Vacuum Is Not a Bug. It Is the Architecture.

A Florida voter's frustration with her party's silence is not a scandal, but a symptom of a system designed to make accountability between elections nearly impossible.

POTUS

Trump Spent $16 Million Repainting a Pool With Broken Pipes, Then Blamed Obama

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was partially refilled on Friday to flush out what the National Park Service said were clogged pipes that supply water to the monument, marking the…

Money

23,000 Jobs Gone, and the Unemployment Rate Is a Lie of Omission

The headline number is 23,000. That is how many jobs the American economy shed in July, according to the Labor Department on Friday. Economists expected a gain of 80,000. What…

POTUS

Todd Blanche’s Credibly Documented Crimes Are the Logical Endpoint of a Captured Justice Department

The Acting Attorney General has committed multiple federal crimes while controlling the very department that would normally investigate him, creating a structural paradox where the investigator is the accused.

Courts

Four People Died Because the FAA Treats GPS Like a Luxury

Four people died because the FAA treats GPS like a luxury. The National Transportation Safety Board's preliminary report on the May 14 crash of a Beech King Air air ambulance…

Congress

Royce White’s WNBA Stunt Is a Senate Candidate Degrading Trans People for Votes

Royce White wants you to know he is 6-foot-8, 270 pounds, and can palm a men's basketball 'probably as easily as any player in history.' He wants you to know…

Congress

El-Sayed Beat $62 Million and the Centrist Playbook Collapsed

Abdul El-Sayed just won a U.S. Senate primary in Michigan while being outspent nine to one. Let that number sit with you for a second. Not two to one. Not…