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James Comey
May 3, 2017
Jeet Heer
James Comey wants everyone to know how much he’s suffered over Hillary Clinton’s emails.
May 3, 2017
Alex Shephard
David Axelrod is still schooling Hillary Clinton.
May 2, 2017
Graham Vyse
Hillary Clinton doesn’t know what cost her the presidency.
April 21, 2017
Primary Concerns
The Trump Backlash Is Building
How the climate of scandal engulfing the Trump GOP is helping Democrats rebuild.
April 17, 2017
Brian Beutler
Why We Shouldn’t Celebrate Trump’s “Centrism”
It blinds us to the ways in which the institutions constraining Trump are themselves flawed.
March 31, 2017
Jeet Heer
James Comey’s secret Twitter account proves Reinhold Niebuhr is still overrated.
March 27, 2017
Jeet Heer
Is the Russia Investigation Turning the Left Into Conspiracy Theorists?
March 24, 2017
Alex Shephard
What Just Happened?! A Review of President Trump’s Ninth Week.
This week was pretty bad. But next week will be worse.
March 22, 2017
Alex Shephard
Devin Nunes, the guy investigating Russian election-meddling, is also providing political cover for Donald Trump.
March 22, 2017
Brian Beutler
The Donald Trump Show Is Flopping
His unorthodox antics helped him win the presidency, but they have only hampered his cruel agenda. That doesn't mean he won't still succeed.
March 21, 2017
Jeet Heer
The Nixonian Strategy Behind Trump’s Obama Lie
The president's stubborn wiretapping claim is a way to shore up support from his Republican base.
March 21, 2017
Brian Beutler
If Trump Is Innocent, Why Is He Acting So Guilty?
His reaction to FBI Director James Comey's testimony about Russian meddling was defensive and deceitful.
March 20, 2017
Clio Chang
The Trump administration’s media strategy is the Jedi mind trick that doesn’t work.
March 20, 2017
Alex Shephard
How will Trump respond now that James Comey has shot down his insane “wiretapping” allegations?
March 20, 2017
Brian Beutler
James Comey just obligated himself to disclose every major development in the now-confirmed Trump-Russia inquiry.
March 20, 2017
Alex Shephard
FBI Director James Comey just confirmed that the FBI is investigating the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.
March 20, 2017
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump is having a full-on meltdown.
March 17, 2017
Primary Concerns
Russia-do About Nothing?
A DOJ veteran and critic of FBI Director James Comey keeps the Trump-Russia story grounded in reason, on episode 49 of Primary Concerns.
March 15, 2017
Scott Lemieux
Blame the Media for Trumpcare
Journalists contributed to voters’ weak understanding of health care. So did Hillary Clinton, Republican officials, and, of course, Donald Trump.
March 8, 2017
Brian Beutler
James Comey is “incredulous” about the ravings of the guy he handed the presidency to.

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