Strip away the ego contest, and what you really see here is a competition about how to screw over poor and working people more effectively.

The conventional wisdom is that Trump holds more cards than Musk. But if that’s wrong, we’re in for some fun times.

The latest in manufactured controversies has less to do with legal victories over the Biden administration than it does with creating content for the president’s media allies.

They were a disaster when Harry Truman forced them on federal workers—but at least he demanded loyalty to the United States, not to the president himself.

Progressives are wringing their hands over the shift that took these voters to the right. But some worry about focusing more on the symptom than the cause.

Don’t be tempted to step in. Definitely don’t try to back Elon. Just sit back and watch.

The right is busy creating two Americas: one for MAGA and one for the rest of us. Those of us who aren’t in their big club won’t have the same rights—and will undoubtedly suffer under this regime.

Hitting Miller’s new deportation quotas could mean fewer resources to fight child trafficking, terrorism, and other crimes. Do Americans really want that?

It took a long time for the power tool business to migrate out of America—and it’ll take a long time for it to come back, if it does.

The president believes that he has a free and unencumbered hand to overrule the federal judiciary. But the courts have been quietly checking him.

Recent comments from Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries suggest that the party’s leaders are ill suited for the moment.

The person poised to take over DOGE from Trump’s pet billionaire is the guy who’s actually been running it all along.

The former Federalist Society power broker used the president to achieve judicial supremacy. Now all that work could get wrecked by the monster he turned loose.

Conservative legal scholars believe in things like originalism and the Second Amendment. Donald Trump’s OK with those, but he really believes in only one thing.

Understanding Trump’s movement this way helps us believe it will come to some disastrous end.

Which presidents have added the most to the national debt? Those free-spending liberal Democrats? Think again, and think about the reason why.

Grant freezes and program cuts at USDA, as well as efforts to slash food stamps, could leave community providers in rural America floundering.

His “departure” from the government is anything but.

Jewish students have been prevented from graduating after taking part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

In suggesting that Congress is a mere nuisance that shouldn’t shape trade policy, Trump revealed his true, unspoken ambitions.