Congress

Trump at 33 Percent and the Structural Inevitability of the Midterm Reckoning

The latest Economist/YouGov survey places Democrats eight points ahead on the generic House ballot and President Trump's approval rating at 33 percent. This structural arithmetic suggests a tectonic event, as…

POTUS

Rubio Says Citizenship Isn’t for Sale While His Boss Sells It for $1 Million

Marco Rubio's declaration that American citizenship is not for sale rings hollow when contrasted with the Trump administration's $1 million 'Gold Card' residency program, which effectively sells access to the…

POTUS

Trump’s Personal Lawyer Promises Integrity to the Staff He Already Purged

There is something uniquely grotesque about a man standing in the Great Hall of the Justice Department, the same building he helped hollow out, and promising the survivors he will…

Crime

The Nolan Wells Conspiracy Machine Is a System, Not a Scandal

What happened to Nolan Wells on Horn Island is a tragedy. What has happened since is a structural inevitability, and pretending otherwise is how we keep having this conversation.

POTUS

Trump’s Steam Catapult Order Is Ego Over Expertise

A presidential directive signed Thursday will cost the American public billions of dollars, make aircraft carriers harder to run, and require more sailors to operate systems the Navy itself says…

Courts

Federal Judge Promises Contempt for Trump’s DOJ Over Epstein File Stonewall

A federal judge has told the Department of Justice that contempt proceedings are now on the table, stating that the threat of legal action is 'not a threat. It's a…

Crime

Three Boys Targeted a Girl Coming Out of a Bathroom. They Called It Dodgeball.

A 13-year-old boy is charged with assault after relentlessly pelting his ex-girlfriend with dodgeballs, but his mother's defense that it's just a game clashes with the reality of a coordinated…

Money

The Fed Goes on WIRED to Explain Itself to a Country That Has Already Decided It’s Evil

Austan Goolsbee patiently explained the Federal Reserve to an audience that had already decided it was a shadowy cabal, turning a media appearance into a structural artifact of remedial education.

Congress

Haley Stevens Concedes as El-Sayed’s Grassroots Campaign Overwhelms the Establishment

The voters voted, and now Haley Stevens would like everyone to move on. One appreciates the sentiment, in the way one appreciates a

Congress

Ninety Votes Was Still Ninety Too Many

Ninety people voted for him anyway. Let that number sit with you. Ninety residents of the 50th District walked into a voting booth, knew exactly who this man was, what…