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May 20, 2022
Alex Shephard
Madison Cawthorn’s Defeat Isn’t Going to Change the GOP
It’s normally a good sign when a political party sheds an embarrassing extremist. This is something different.
May 20, 2022
Mary L. Trump
Mark Esper’s Fascinating Revelations Would Have Been Far More So in Real Time
If he and John Bolton and Bill Barr and all the other “adults in the room” had spoken up when it mattered, history could be different.
May 20, 2022
Marisa Kabas
George W. Bush Makes a Brutal Return to Our Psyche
The former president’s recent Ukraine-or-Iraq invasion gaffe was a high-test dose of accidental honesty—and painful nostalgia.
May 18, 2022
Alex Shephard
Did Democrats Make a Mistake by Hyping a Trumpy Insurrectionist in Pennsylvania?
The party believed Doug Mastriano would be the easiest candidate to beat in November, so they followed the same risky strategy that backfired tremendously in 2016.
May 16, 2022
Alex Thomas
Donald Trump’s Gaffe About
Roe
Has Become America’s Worrisome Future
The anti-abortion movement once recoiled at the former president’s assertion that women should be punished for having abortions. It’s since started to embrace his way of thinking.
May 16, 2022
Timothy Noah
The Trump Hotel Is Gone, but Its Squalid Legacy Will Never Die
Donald Trump used his Washington hotel for corrupt purposes. He still managed to lose money—but now, thanks to a suck-up bank, he’s walking away with $100 million.
May 13, 2022
Matt Ford
God Bless John Eastman for Taking Meticulous Notes on Trump’s Criminal Conspiracy
Believe it or not, we all owe the former president’s personal coup lawyer a huge debt of gratitude.
May 13, 2022
Timothy Noah
If You Can’t Love Biden, He’ll Settle for You Hating Trump
The president has finally acknowledged that fear motivates voters more than love and started attacking MAGA America. Will it work?
May 11, 2022
Katherine Stewart
The Democratic Party Is Shedding Latino Voters. Here’s Why.
Republicans have deftly targeted this election-swinging voter demographic with a massive investment in media and messaging.
May 9, 2022
Alex Shephard
With
Roe,
the GOP is the Dog That Caught the Car
Why Republicans don’t yet want to talk about the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
May 6, 2022
Ira Shapiro
How Mitch McConnell Wrecked the Senate
Obstructionist under Obama, battering ram under Trump, and a threat to democracy in both guises. An exclusive book excerpt.
May 4, 2022
Alex Shephard
Never Trump Never Stood a Chance
J.D. Vance earned Trump’s endorsement by renouncing his anti-Trump past. The Senate candidate’s comeback victory in Ohio’s Republican primary will only intensify the stampede to kiss the king’s ring.
May 4, 2022
Cliff Schecter
Ohio Republicans Send Marin County Wine-Sipper Into November Battle
J.D. Vance is about as authentically Ohioan as a bar of Ghirardelli chocolate. Alas, only one endorsement mattered.
May 4, 2022
Timothy Noah
Women Wouldn’t Lose Their Right to Choose If We Elected Presidents by Popular Vote
Four of the five justices who are prepared to overturn Roe were installed by popular vote–losing presidents. Blame the Electoral College.
May 3, 2022
Alex Shephard
Republicans Cast Themselves as the True Victims of the Supreme Court’s
Roe
Leak
It’s a desperate attempt to make it seem like it’s liberals, not the right, who are to blame for the court’s loss of legitimacy.
May 3, 2022
Timothy Noah
No, Republicans Aren’t Better at Managing the Economy Than Democrats
By virtually every objective measure, Democrats do better. It’s not even close. So why doesn’t America know it?
May 3, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Democrats’ Midterm Message Is Getting Desperate
Putting Donald Trump on the ballot won’t save them.
May 2, 2022
Daniel Strauss
How Kevin McCarthy Punted on a Chance to Stop Marjorie Taylor Greene
A new book reveals that GOP aides wanted the party to back MTG’s primary opponent—but McCarthy, afraid of Donald Trump’s reaction, killed the idea.
May 2, 2022
Maya Wiley
How Trump Dangerously Turned an Old Law on Its Head—and What Congress Must Do About It
The Insurrection Act was written and amended to protect law and order. Trumpworld tried to use it to subvert law and order—and will do so again.
April 29, 2022
Daniel Strauss
Vance, Mandel, Vance, Mandel—Anybody Remember Tim Ryan?
Ohio’s primaries are next Tuesday. The putative Democratic Senate candidate says he can win because the Republicans are extremists and radicals.
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