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May 28, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Fury at Harvard Gets More Deranged—and Exposes a Big MAGA Scam
Trump says he’s attacking foreign students because they’re taking places reserved for American kids. But the House GOP budget bill would hurt countless American students from the working class.
May 27, 2025
Alyssa Schukar
Tough Work, Tight Margins: How Cattle Branding Is Evolving in Nebraska
The population is shrinking, and the heifers just keep getting bigger. So the Burdick Ranch relies on neighbor volunteers and high school wrestlers to get the job done.
May 27, 2025
Michael Tomasky
Trump Talks “Trophy Wives” but Biden’s Autopen Is the New “Her Emails”
MAGAworld’s latest fixation can be explained simply: These reprobates love to lie, and it’s become way too easy for them to get away with it.
May 25, 2025
Joe Cirincione
Trump’s “Golden Dome” Won’t Work—but It’ll Make Elon Musk Richer
For 40 years, missile defense has never been about keeping America safe. It’s all about the contracts.
May 24, 2025
Jason Linkins
Joe Biden Is the Least of Democrats’ Problems
Some commentators say the former president’s age and acuity will be a litmus test for 2028 candidates. They are embarrassingly wrong.
May 23, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Lie About Dead “White Farmers” Just Got Even More Grotesque
That photo he brandished to Cyril Ramaphosa was from the Democratic Republic of Congo—whose refugees the Trump administration is pointedly not welcoming to America.
May 23, 2025
Michael Tomasky
Trump’s Week: Rob From the Poor, Give to the Rich, Steal Like Crazy
Nothing sums up the descent into authoritarian corruption of the once-republican USA like the events of May 22, 2025.
May 23, 2025
Grace Segers
Senate Republicans Flirt With Nuking the Filibuster
GOP Senators are chipping away at the 60-vote threshold, marking one more step toward majority rule in the upper chamber.
May 23, 2025
Monica Potts
The Republican Budget Bill Rips College Away From the Working Class
If the GOP really cared about meritocracy, they wouldn’t gut programs that help low-income students—especially those who also have a job or care for a child—earn a college degree.
May 22, 2025
Matthew Wollin
The Obscure Legal Doctrine Guiding the Supreme Court Into Oblivion
The high court is stretching an interpretive philosophy to the breaking point to avoid confrontations with Trump.
May 22, 2025
Timothy Noah
House Republicans Just Touched the Third Rail
Medicaid was once a little-regarded program. It is now a policy heavyweight—and with an enrollment larger than Medicare’s, it’s very, very popular.
May 21, 2025
Grace Segers
Here Are the Worst Things in Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill
The GOP is struggling to pass a budget bill that would threaten millions of poor Americans’ livelihoods and health care—to the benefit of the wealthy.
May 21, 2025
Alex Shephard
Was It Really a “Cover-Up” If We All Knew the Truth About Biden?
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.
May 21, 2025
Monica Potts
The Republicans’ Medicaid Cuts Could Cause a Rural Unemployment Crisis
The spending cuts could force many rural hospitals to close. That wouldn’t just be a crisis for rural health care but for rural employment too.
May 20, 2025
Greg Sargent
JD Vance’s Surprise Admission About Trump, Medicaid Boomerangs on Him
The veep once excoriated Republicans over deep Medicaid cuts. Where he lands today will tell us much about his character—and the true goals of Trumpism.
May 20, 2025
Dana Vachon
How Pope Francis Saved the Catholic Church From JD Vance
By paving the way for an American pope, Leo’s predecessor has ensured the faith won’t get hijacked by the right.
May 20, 2025
Toby Buckle
Why the Democratic Tea Party Failed (and How It Could Succeed)
For the left to win, it must blame fascism on the actual fascists.
May 20, 2025
Timothy Noah
The GOP’s Budget Hawks Will Bankrupt the Country
The Republicans’ tax cut plans are an exercise in bad faith, aimed squarely at the American people.
May 19, 2025
Laura Weiss
An Anti-Science MAHA Extremist Is Playing a Major Role at the FDA
On first glance, Dr. Vinay Prasad’s medical credentials sound impressive. But look closer and you’ll find a narcissistic attention-seeker peddling misinformation, whose views will cost lives.
May 17, 2025
Jason Linkins
Let’s Start Talking About Jail Time for Trump and His MAGA Enablers
Trump is the head of a criminal syndicate, and he should be treated accordingly.
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