Alex Shephard

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It’s true that Biden’s team hid his decline from the public. But the public had long known that he wasn’t fit to serve another term as president.

The president’s Middle East romp is defying the rules at every turn. If only his predecessor had shown the same courage.

Trump’s brazen use of the White House to advance his family businesses should be one of the biggest scandals in the country’s history.

Andrew Cuomo, who leads in the mayoral polls, has a Trumpian belief in his own spurious talents and triumphs. His election would likewise be a disaster for everyone subject to his rule.

Pope Leo XIV—the American Robert Francis Prevost—was a close ally of Pope Francis. The two share many of the same views on climate, migrants, and “gender ideology.”

100 days into his second term, the president’s approval numbers are historically bad. There’s good reason to believe they’re only going to get worse from here.

Many rejoiced when Musk said he’d pull back from the Department of Government Efficiency. But the world’s richest person will continue to wield oligarchic influence over our politics, and therefore our lives.

Less than two weeks after narrowly averting self-inflicted disaster, the president is once again on the verge of doing something both stupid and catastrophic.

Some liberal pundits and politicians seem to think talking about immigration is a trap. They couldn’t be more wrong.

A scathing whistleblower report suggests that DOGE coders may have pilfered troves of personal data that would be extremely valuable to business leaders.

There’s no other explanation for the market fluctuations caused by Trump’s tariffs, which should have come as no surprise to anyone in the financial industry.

Political, cultural, and economic figures might be too scared to stand up to the president. Millions of Americans are not.

Cost-of-living issues are important, but there’s an even more critical story that’s crying out for Democrats’ attention.

The national security chat debacle certainly merits attention. But the Trump administration is now blatantly disappearing students and others who are in the country legally.

Trump’s Cabinet members should be deeply embarrassed by the inclusion of a prominent journalist in their private war chat. But these MAGA bozos have other ideas.

It’s risky, for sure, but the politics are much better for Democrats than some chin-strokers in Washington believe.

The president has made it abundantly clear that Mahmoud Khalil’s detention is just a prelude to a much broader crackdown on free speech in America.

The former #Resistance darling has no problem politically sacrificing the most vulnerable Americans, like trans high schoolers, for the sake of his White House dreams.

Trump is doing what he promised on the campaign trail: wreaking economic havoc on America and destroying the rules-based international order. Voters chose him anyway.

His second term has been driven by long-standing priorities of the conservative movement.