Ana Marie Cox

Blame Hollywood’s “unwokening” and the extraordinary rise of right-wing podcasters on slop: intellectually bereft, emotionally sterile content that’s shaped by data and optimized for clicks.

Pop culture serves up a timely yuletide lesson about the inescapable connection between poverty and suicide. We need to start heeding it all year round.

Democrats have striven to set themselves apart from the movement that put Trump in office. Maybe they should imitate it instead.

The president-elect’s pick to run the Pentagon wouldn’t stand a chance of confirmation in the pre-Trump era. Then again, there weren’t any presidents corrupt enough to pick him until now.

As pundits scribble and Democrats point fingers, it’s OK to sit the postelection period out and build strength for the challenging days ahead.

The former Fox News host is so flummoxed by Kamala Harris’s running mate that he’s resorting to immature, homophobic schoolyard taunts.

In tonight’s vice presidential debate, Kamala Harris’s running mate should kill J.D. Vance with kindness.

Beto O’Rourke was good at racking up celebrity support—and not as good at winning elections. But his experience illuminates the possibilities of earning a megastar’s approval.

At The Free Press’s Texas-size immigration debate, nothing was at stake and everybody won.

The two top lawmakers in the Lone Star State are pursuing personal vendettas against fellow Republicans—and leading their party into the fringes.

Her entire candidacy was predicated on the notion that she’d be there if Trump’s legal woes caught up with him. Two controversial high court rulings ended that dream.

Forced-birth advocates know their ideas are broadly unpopular with the public. That won’t matter if the public doesn’t get to have a say.

Despite his lead, Trump isn’t a lock to win the caucuses. What does a competitive nominating race mean for the rest of us?

As his Senate career draws to a close, we’re no closer to solving the mystery of why he ran for office in the first place.

The former U.N. ambassador is on an upswing in the polls, thanks in part to her canny ability to be a bland radical.

The pandemic. The mass shootings. Insurrection. Trump. We've been through so much. What if our entire national character is a trauma response?

The weekend’s Iowa GOP presidential forum was run by the former Fox host, who pressed them on trans issues, the deep state—and death.

Conservatives are bringing back some tactics from the original drug war. They’re cruel—and they also don’t stand a chance of working.

Maybe it’s time to stop making fun of the Texas senator and start taking him seriously.

The banished host’s gravy train will likely keep on rolling—and he’ll continue to provide Fox News with fodder.