Shadow Ticket may be an exercise in restraint. But what is a Pynchon novel without its sense of unruly bigness?

Donald Trump kicked off his press conference with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the worst way.

Lindsey Graham apparently has no issue throwing the Constitution out the window.

The Brazilian president made a clear jab at Donald Trump before his big speech at the United Nations.

The network has become a mouthpiece for the Trump administration.

They’ve been very, very busy. So busy.

The president’s federal takeover is unpopular with a majority of residents.

Yes, his approval rating is tanking and he’s still trying to shake the Epstein scandal. But he’s been foreshadowing this authoritarian power grab for years—and yet Democrats still weren’t ready for it.

An ideology that failed under Mussolini, Hitler, Franco, and Portugal’s António de Oliveira Salazar gets taken out for another spin.

Donald Trump’s takeover of Washington, D.C., is just a taste of what he really wants.

Ross Barkan’s engrossing, literary analysis of the 2024 election disappoints with its blinkered vision of U.S. politics.

FCC Chair Brendan Carr had a chilling threat for all media critical of Donald Trump.

Only seven Republicans have confirmed they plan to attend Trump’s military parade in Washington, D.C.

It is flagrantly illegal, of course. He’s doing it anyway.

He thinks what’s happening in a small pocket of Los Angeles is “World War III.”

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

Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and his mother met with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago.

The Trump administration is a serious threat to democracy. They’re also laughably incompetent. But the result is no laughing matter.

Donald Trump is making it pretty clear he plans to say in power forever.

Donald Trump’s narcissism bears a striking resemblance to Benito Mussolini’s. Which does not bode well.