A Right-Wing Supreme Court Could Make Biden a Dictator by Mistake
The conservative members of the rogue, corrupt, illegitimate Supreme Court indicated last week that they might extend total immunity to former President Donald Trump.
It's Not Too Late for the GOP to Dump Trump. Here's How
A once abstract possibility has become increasingly plausible: that the Republican nominee for president will need to deliver his acceptance speech and conduct his campaign from prison.
The End of the Electoral College Is Finally in Sight
The dumbest institution in the democratic world might not have long to live.
Trump's Big Abortion Gamble Won't Save Him
Since the Supreme Court's 2022 Dobbs decision, Democrats have overperformed expectations and have come out on top every time the question of reproductive rights has been put directly before the voters.
Democrats May Keep the Senate—With a Little GOP Help
The inexplicable determination of the party's voters to pick unstable provocateurs might be the only path Democrats have to hanging onto their narrow and very much endangered Senate majority.
The Republican National Committee May Become Trump's Cash Machine
This month, presumptive Republican nominee for president Donald Trump took over the Republican National Committee (RNC) and then days later liquidated dozens of staff members.
2024 Primaries: Well, That Was Pointless. Now We're Screwed
For the first time since 2004, when George W. Bush was the incumbent Republican and Democrat John Kerry eliminated what remained of his competition, the two parties' presidential primaries are completely over after Super Tuesday.
The Democratic Party May Be Stuck With Biden for Good
President Biden's brutal polling numbers against disgraced former President Trump have been causing major controversy inside the Democratic Party's big tent.
Donald Trump Will End NATO and Make the World Unsafe for Democracy
Trump continues to misunderstand the nature of the NATO alliance, which is not like some kind of Netflix subscription that Europeans have to stay current on or else the United States cuts them off.
Actually, Partisanship Is Good—When the Other Side Is Today's Insane GOP
U.S. political dysfunction is the product of bad system design that has empowered a set of extremists in the GOP to grind problem-solving to a halt.
On Immigration, Democrats Don't Even Know How to Compromise Right
By the end of this week, hopes for compromise legislation unveiled by Senate leaders on Monday around immigration and the southern border are highly likely to be dashed.
Biden Must Keep Defending Democracy Against GOP Hysteria
There's a new conventional wisdom taking shape that the Biden administration has been too focused on Jan. 6 and the defense of democracy as a 2024 strategy.
Do People Want a Fascist States of America? Maybe So
There are a number of lessons to be learned from last week's Iowa Republican caucus, won by former President Donald Trump.
And the Winner of the Iowa Caucuses Will Be... Who Cares?
Is anyone paying attention to Monday's Iowa caucus? The feverish pitch of horse race polling, speculation and jockeying that usually precedes an Iowa caucus is mostly missing this year.
Why 2024 Could Totally Rule!
in the spirit of the holidays let's think about what might go right rather than wrong and why 2024 might actually rule.
Trump Is an Insurrectionist. Will the Supreme Court Let Him Be President?
Now that the Colorado Supreme Court has used the 14th Amendment to bar former President Donald Trump from the state's primary and presidential ballot, the real action begins.
The Ultimate Nightmare Scenario for Trump Supporters
Republicans are walking into their own Trump trap—one that might not just cost them the presidency but any ability to be competitive down ballot if they saddle themselves with a future inmate as their nominee.
The Far Right's Losing War on Schools
Earlier this month, the astroturfed right-wing war on intellectual freedom in public schools met its Waterloo.
Want Better Health Care? Vote Democrat
Democrats still have total issue ownership of health care, and the idea that it is going to be a strength next year for former President Donald Trump and the Republicans is impossible.
Get Used to House Speaker Mike Johnson Capitulating
Johnson and his fellow radicals are like the political equivalent of pre-parenthood adults who look on in horror at the compromises that parents make to their kids to get through the day.
Trump's Planned Revenge Tour Would End Democracy—He Says So Himself
The former president is plotting his revenge on critics, planning to pursue a Tiananmen Square-style crackdown and looking to pink-slip everyone in the federal government who doesn't bend the knee to him.
GOP Presidential Candidates Listed in Their Likely Order of Disappearance
The ill-fated presidential candidacy of former Vice President Mike Pence collided with empirical reality on Saturday and unfortunately for him, only reality survived.
Speaker Mike Johnson Seems Like a Nice Guy. He's Also a Threat to Democracy
By selecting policy hardliner and 2020 election truther Rep. Mike Johnson as their leader after more than three weeks of infighting, Republicans are telling us exactly who and what they are.
Democrats Are the Big Winners After More GOP Chaos
The inability of Republicans to choose a leader in the House is a lot of things at once—it's a tremendously telling indictment of the party's lack of interest and skill at the basic tasks of governing.
Donald Trump Is Partly to Blame for the Situation in Israel
The Trump administration obliterated longstanding American policy in the region, handed a series of pinless policy grenades to President Biden and then took cover.
Matt Gaetz and the House's Molotov Cocktail Caucus
Yesterday Republicans issued one of their periodic and predictable reminders of why they cannot be trusted to govern.
The Second Republican Debate Is a Total Farce
Why should voters waste two hours of their lives listening to a bunch of future also-rans yap at each other as the elephant in the room stomps all over them?
The Very Bad Electoral College News for Democrats
The 2020 round of redistricting didn't just create new maps for the House in most states—it also changed some of their electoral vote numbers.
The New GOP Mainstream Starts a Pointless Biden Impeachment Probe
After half-heartedly resisting them for most of the year, McCarthy has faced reality—in order to remain speaker, he must do the Republican fringe's bidding.
The Constitution Clearly Bars Trump From the Ballot. It Won't Happen
The idea of using language in the 14th Amendment to remove Trump from 2024 ballots for president has gone from fringe idea to mainstream discussion point with shocking speed.