Alex Shephard

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The GOP’s dwindling establishment hawks think U.S. troops should remain in the country despite two decades of failure. Three out of four Americans disagree.

The “Hillbilly Elegy” author spent the first week of his campaign apologizing for his past criticism of Trump. He’s going to have to grovel even more if he hopes to defeat the Forever Trumpers he’s up against.

Cable news’s traditional home for climate denialism and political radicalism is going to make a right-wing run at the Weather Channel.

Aspiring Republicans once had to sign Grover Norquist’s no-new-taxes pledge. Now they must be devoted to the former president’s perfidies.

Blame the city’s corrupt and incompetent Board of Elections instead.

The GOP wants to convince America that socialist, defund-the-police Democrats are responsible for rising crime. Political journalists are already sold.

The party has sold itself as the only thing standing in the way of the existential death of democracy. But it’s not governing as if it believes its own warnings.

The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in NCAA v. Alston has put the end of the organization’s exploitation of college athletes in sight.

Critics are concerned about w hat newly launched GB News will do to the United Kingdom. For now, at least, they have little to fear.

The big publishing houses routinely push out political books that are less than truthful, but the former president’s lies seem to be a bridge too far.

Transforming the academic study of structural racism into a vague grab bag of villainy has been useful fodder for moral panic while the GOP figures out how to attack Joe Biden.

Lindsey Graham and other conservatives are trying to turn the Covid controversy du jour into the new Russiagate.

For all the talk of the GOP’s new working-class focus, it’s as eager as ever to serve the interests of plutocrats at the expense of everyone else.

“The number of Fox staffers who said to me, ‘I miss Roger Ailes’ absolutely astonished me.”

The latest attacks from the GOP betray its desperation to find something, anything, to attack Joe Biden with.

The previous two administrations’ dogged pursuit of reporters’ records demands immediate reform.

Gates was a lovable nerd who was out to save the world. Now, he’s a tech supervillain who wants to protect profits over public health.

The Trump era’s most infamous metaphor takes on a new meaning as “bipartisan” negotiations drag on.

Michael Flynn’s embrace of a Myanmar-style military overthrow is chilling. It’s also a growing position within the GOP.

Republicans are “fretting” about the former president’s political return. But they’re mostly worried about him undermining their ongoing anti-democratic efforts.