The January 6 commission brought shocking new footage and testimony to its prime-time debut Thursday night.

Yes, the main job is to tie Trump to the sedition we saw that day. But let’s not forget the emotion that drove so much of it.

The Los Angeles mayoral front-runner was a member of the GOP until recently and is winning based on wild promises to sweep the city’s problems under the rug.

Beginning on Thursday night, a resounding case will be made that Trump should never be allowed near Washington again.

As public hearings approach, it’s worth remembering what this commission should be trying to accomplish—and what it shouldn’t.

Trump’s recent losses are heartening. But that doesn’t mean a post-Trump GOP will be good for America.

The special prosecutor that former Attorney General Bill Barr left behind has stunk up the DOJ for far too long.

Better “messaging” alone won’t shift the dire fundamentals of this midterm election.

Elections in red states may be hard, but they serve as potential laboratories for Democrats to retool their struggles with working-class appeals.

And it was … interesting to see the “bipartisan” No Labels group come out and say that the House select committee is “a partisan exercise.”

The state Republican Party chairman is a serious extremist. Cheney’s opponent, once anti-Trump, now loves him. Can Cheney hang on?

MSNBC’s decision to bring Jen Psaki onto its network isn’t much better than CBS hiring Mick Mulvaney.

Donald Trump’s endorsees have struggled to get a majority in GOP primaries so far this year.

That CPAC held an event in Budapest is just brain-melting. And yet our media barely paid attention. This is how democracy dies.

It’s normally a good sign when a political party sheds an embarrassing extremist. This is something different.

The former president’s recent Ukraine-or-Iraq invasion gaffe was a high-test dose of accidental honesty—and painful nostalgia.

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.

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.

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.

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.