POTUS

The Revolution Will Be Televised, but the Counter-Revolution Has No Channel

The battle to 'de-Trumpify' America starts now

Courts

Syrian Court Sentences Assad to Death He’ll Never Face

A Syrian court has sentenced Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia, but the real test of justice lies in the trial of his cousin, Atef Najib, who stood in the…

Crime

A Billionaire Bought His Way Out of a Bribery Case and the Judge Said We Can Draw Our Own Conclusions

A US judge dismissed criminal charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, but the dismissal process was so irregular that the judge himself told the public to draw its own conclusions…

Crime

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…

Elections

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.

Elections

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…