The former NFL player is embroiled in what may be Mississippi’s biggest corruption scandal ever: the misuse of welfare funds for ego projects that did nothing to help the state’s poor people.

As a policy, the 2021 expansion was historically successful, cutting child poverty nearly in half. But it died by politics this year. Can it be revived in 2023?

The Nebraska senator is finally getting out of politics after years of never really getting into it.

The Qatar World Cup never should have happened. But there are signs that the world is finally waking up to the corrupt arrangements that brought it about.

The Islamic Republic’s theocratic elite are on the ropes.

The election denial propaganda film was praised by the likes of Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene—and utterly tanked at the box office.

After the Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, the country changed forever.

The right-wing writer and podcaster has raised his profile by spreading grotesque conspiracy theories about “grooming” and pedophilia in the LGBTQ community.

This was the year the Saudi strongman was supposed to become a pariah. Instead, he’s gotten away with murder.

The Virginian represented one of the swingiest House seats in the country but still staked her reelection on defending democracy and investigating what actually happened on January 6.

It wasn’t great, but the 1970s did not return, and in 2023 the economic indicator we’ll be talking about will be unemployment.

The Supreme Court justice and his right-wing activist wife are working hand in hand to destroy American democracy.

Here are the humans who made our skin crawl this year—and a few who salvaged our faith in mankind.

After years of unwarranted hype ballooned its value, the crypto market came crashing down in 2022, bankrupting billionaires and naïve investors alike. Has America learned its lesson?

Tesla’s CEO was long portrayed as a business genius. His incompetent rule of Twitter proves he’s really just a thirsty, right-wing dimwit.

Natural gas causes methane emissions. Ben can’t handle hearing that, apparently.

The Arizona Republican echoed all of Trump’s election denial strategies from 2020. But this time, none of them worked.