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What trying to access abortion care is like here in post-Dobbs Missouri
Historian Allan Lichtman's view on the first two years of the Biden presidency
Ron DeSantis is the future of the GOP — and that's bad news for Republicans
Linette Lopez sounds off on her Twitter suspension
Trump-resistant, not Trump-proof
The upsides (and downsides) of angering one of the world's richest men
Hunter Walker on Mark Meadows’s texts and what he expects from the final J6 report
Yes, my Twitter account was permanently suspended
Elon Musk's reactionary populism
Dan Froomkin on the state of political journalism
Oliver Willis on why the Herschel Walker campaign made him sick
How Bannon and Trump normalized antisemitic bigotry
The Trump/Ye dinner suggests the GOP primary will be worse than you think
Kevin McCarthy's lies speak volumes
The rote GOP response to mass shootings is nonsense even on the most charitable interpretation
Molly Jong-Fast on why she'll keep tweeting until the lights go out
Why the new special counsel is actually bad news for Trump
Dems shouldn't celebrate Trump's return to Twitter, even if his tweets are enormously unpopular
Republicans view 2017-2021 as a golden age. That makes it hard to run against Trump.
40 seconds from Trump's mess of a campaign launch speech that stuck with me
Is Elon Musk evil or simply a fool?
Trump's terrible week, explained
Vote! But here's how to advance progressive causes even if Dems lose the midterms
What Bolsonaro's loss means for the broader fight against right-wing authoritarianism
The GOP has embraced violence as a political tactic
When Elon Musk owns speech, it isn't free
The right thinks it gets to decide who is Jewish
Kevin Kruse says this really is the most important election of your life
Democrats used to be all about big ideas. Then economists took over.
NORML on the next steps toward federal cannabis legalization
The E. Jean Carroll case exposes the violence and lawlessness of Trump's GOP
Kari Lake is how democracies die
In 5 profane words, Roger Stone summed up the coup plan a week before Trump put it into action
The harassment campaign against Boston Children's shows how fascist violence is crowdsourced online
Chris Geidner on SCOTUS's legitimacy crisis
Why Biden's marijuana decriminalization move is a BFD
Republicans think abortion is murder. Except when a GOP Senate candidate reportedly pays for one.
Reforming the filibuster isn't as simple as just adding two Dem senators
Will Sommer on Trump's increasingly shameless QAnon outreach
Trump totally decomposes on Fox News
DeSantis's cruel Martha's Vineyard stunt is a prime example of MAGA vice signaling
Trump leans in to the cult of personality
The GOP's latest bugaboo? Fentanyl!
Chomsky, Greenwald, and left apologists for Russia look very foolish now
Jay Rosen on the mess at CNN and the perils of "both sides" journalism
How the GOP's biggest judicial victory in a generation could doom them on Election Day
Flawed special master ruling shows that when you have the courts, you can get away with anything
Trump spent Thursday demonstrating why Biden's primetime speech was right on target
Biden is addressing the root cause of the student debt crisis — conservative ideology
Trump defenders were conspicuous by their absence on the Sunday shows
Dems won a key special election. Why that's (maybe) not great news for Joe Biden.
That National Archives letter released by a MAGA outlet backfired spectacularly
Dan Crenshaw's defense of Trump is a talking point in search of facts
If you don't prosecute Trump, he will continue committing crimes
Trumpworld incites the MAGA lunatic fringe against the FBI
Rick Hasen on why reforming the Electoral Count Act is necessary but not sufficient
The case for the DCCC taking out so-called "moderate" Republicans
Tweets that have aged extremely poorly, FBI executes search warrant at Mar-a-Lago edition
Trump supporters overlook a key fact about the FBI's Mar-a-Lago search
Even the guy in charge of electing Republicans can't defend GOP Senate candidates
One Fox News Sunday clip illustrates the fundamental divide between the parties
"It's easy to avoid the news": the J6 committee tries to break through our fractured media ecosystem
Jurors should nullify forced birth laws
TPUSA's Student Action Summit was the WrestleMania of crude misogyny
New footage of Trump struggling through his January 7 video message says it all
Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are trying to have it both ways
Should Dems go on Fox? Buttigieg's latest interview shows why watchdogs think it's dicey
Biden's response to Roe's overturning has been inadequate. Here's how he could do more.
Liz Cheney dropped the biggest bombshell of the latest January 6 hearing right at the end
It's been an extremely embarrassing week for newspaper opinion pages
Tyrants in robes: SCOTUS's right-wing majority isn't even bothering with trying to persuade you
Watch Aaron's appearance on MSNBC
Mark Follman on a disastrous summer for "good guys with guns"
To defend democracy, you need to defend trans people
We already knew Trump is reckless, selfish, and immoral. We didn't know how bad it got on January 6.
Kristi Noem's ghoulish Sunday TV tour showed how hard women's lives will become in deep red states
How the latest J6 hearing added to Trump's legal jeopardy, explained by Ryan Goodman
Here are some of the lucky winners of the Save America PAC lottery
Cheney's belief in Trumpers going down in "dishonor" feels good. But history doesn't work that way.
America's gun sickness goes far deeper than NRA donations
"The big ripoff": the J6 committee's revelation about a fake Trump election defense fund, explained
Trump shouldn't have listened to a "definitely intoxicated" Rudy Giuliani
The simple case for expanding the Supreme Court
Judd Legum on following the money in an era of Republican extremism
Stop blaming Susan Sarandon. The problem is the Senate.
Almost everything Texas police initially said about the Uvalde shooting was false
Student debt relief isn’t the key to victory at the polls for Democrats. Biden should do it anyway.
Straight talk from Oliver Willis on lessons from 22 years of progressive blogging
Welcome to the world, baby Owen
Sean Hannity, Lyin' Ted, and Lindsey Graham in the Fox News multiverse of madness
I listened to what Republican governors said about abortion on Sunday. It's grim stuff.
The press loves "Dems in disarray." But GOP infighting is far more consequential.
Important Public Notice update. Don't worry — it's good news!
"There are no realistic offramps": a Russianist on the danger of a cornered Putin
"He's a massive troll": Elon Musk's bid to buy Twitter, explained
Weekend subscriber thread: what stories am I missing?
Meadows's texts show Trump supporters workshopping January 6 lies during Capitol attack
Rand Paul parrots Russian propaganda, suggests Ukraine had it coming
Kevin McCarthy lies about lying
Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn’t remember anything and you can’t prove she does
An essential insight about propaganda
Trump's 2019 meeting with Zelensky was disgraceful at the time and seems even worse now
Why are oiled musclemen drinking raw eggs for Tucker Carlson?
Mike Lee's texts and the coup in search of a legal theory
Ron DeSantis loves using very young kids as political props
Fox News responded to the Jared Kushner bombshell with nonstop Hunter Biden talk
Don Jr wrote it all down — again
Polling from a society in decline
Check out this big 2014 feature I did on the rich history of pro wrestling in Minnesota
RIP Eric Boehlert. His voice will be missed.
An authoritarianism scholar on DeSantis as "the ultimate agent for the normalization of extremism"
I spent all weekend being a punching bag for Trumpers. Here's why I have no regrets.
Fox News brought up Hunter Biden twice an hour this week. What they ignored also speaks volumes.
Mick Mulvaney is a liar. Why did CBS hire him?
"Conspiracy theories are threaded into the Republican Party itself"
Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't care about bathroom safety, she's just homophobic
"It's constituent service, but the constituency is nuts."
Lindsey Graham said Jackson's hearing wouldn't be a circus. Then he laced up his clown shoes.
The best moment of Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearing had nothing to do with politics
Friday began with the Kremlin praising Fox News. It ended with Fox spreading Kremlin propaganda.
Biden calls malarkey on people blaming him for high gas prices. He has a point.
One tweet shows how Tucker Carlson shamelessly moves the goalposts
Trump is so clearly running for president that people are complaining to the FEC about it
Tucker Carlson's useful idiocy
A congressman, a senator, and a journalist talk about social media and the Twitter echo chamber
Reader Notice: Biden's handling of the crisis created by Putin's war on Ukraine
Bill Barr's profile in cowardice
Pence says there's "no room" in GOP for Putin apologists. Let's check the tape.
Putin fights the propaganda war at home
Republicans are hoping you have amnesia about Donald Trump and Ukraine
Unforgettable footage from a day in Russia's war on Ukraine
Beyond parody: the clown show that was CPAC 2022
Trump thought US troops are fighting Russians in Ukraine. Really.
Rick Scott's loony GOP policy blueprint
Kevin Kruse on the GOP's Presidents' Day embrace of Richard Nixon
Ted Cruz's Ottawa lie and the right-wing misinformation pipeline
Fox News's Hillary Clinton obsession backfired
Maria Bartiromo is hopelessly lost in the conspiracy theory fever swamp
How Fox News manufactured a Hillary Clinton spying scandal
Should we just ignore Donald Trump?
Why Putin wants to invade Ukraine
How a bad Free Beacon piece about crack pipes triggered Fox News
Trump is now in hot water for mishandling classified information, because of course he is
Kevin McCarthy is racing away from reporters to avoid talking about January 6
Fox News is helping Republicans bury the RNC's embrace of insurrection
Marco Rubio's incredible cowardice, in one video clip
Fox & Friends preemptively hammered Biden for a bad jobs report. They were only off by 750k jobs.
Ted Cruz's passion for public self-owns
Trump's unintentionally hilarious fundraising emails, explained
Susan Collins is shocked to learn that politics are part of SCOTUS nominations
Trump yelled the quiet part all weekend. Republicans keep making excuses for him anyway.
You won't see a more dishonest tweet than the RNC's latest Biden smear
You have to see this clip of DeSantis's surgeon general obfuscating about vaccines
JD Vance, Josh Mandel, and the GOP's race to the bottom
Tucker Carlson is on Russia's side
A timeline of the martial law order Trump didn't want to turn over to the Jan. 6 committee
Joni Ernst didn't exactly refute Biden's claim about the GOP standing for nothing
"Journalists who write about Fox News don’t watch Fox News"
Coverage of OAN's likely demise reminds us that conspiracy theories are not "conservative"
Trump's attack on "gutless" DeSantis is the opening salvo of the 2024 GOP primary
Fauci accused Rand Paul of politicizing the pandemic for profit. And he had receipts.
Peter Doocy learned nothing from getting Covid
A big weekend for political journalism blunders
Tucker Carlson's incredible humiliation of Ted Cruz
January 6 was about ending democracy. Republicans told us as much.
What we learned from the Hannity texts released by the Jan. 6 committee
MTG's Covid misinformation is impossible to defend. McCarthy went for it anyway.