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July 21, 2025
Harry Litman
Why Trump’s Lawsuit Against Murdoch and the
Journal
Is a Sure Loser
Yes, his base rallied to him after the big story broke. But this lawsuit is stupid on several levels and will come back to bite him.
July 18, 2025
Michael Tomasky
Donald Trump Is Having One of His Worst Weeks Ever
This will go down as the week that the MAGA pixie dust didn’t work for once. It won’t be the last time.
July 18, 2025
Matt Ford
Gavin Newsom’s Retaliatory Redistricting Plan Is Good, Actually
The California governor is threatening to make a controversial tit-for-tat response if Texas Republicans redraw their state’s district maps to boost the GOP’s numbers in Congress.
July 16, 2025
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Says Laws Aren’t Real
The Roberts court majority seems bound and determined to undermine the American constitutional order.
July 15, 2025
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court’s Most Worrisome Non-Decision
The Roberts Court has asked for reargument in a key redistricting case, a move that strongly suggests the conservative majority is about to whack the Voting Rights Act again.
July 14, 2025
Michael Tomasky
Will the Epstein Story Hurt Trump in MAGA-Land? Wake Up—It Already Has
MAGA’s already enraged that Trump has pulled an about-face on the Epstein files. Imagine their rage if they come out and a certain president not named Clinton is in them.
July 10, 2025
Greg Sargent
Whistleblower Emails Expose Fresh Trump Abuses in Abrego Garcia Case
Newly released communications show the lengths the Trump administration went to in order to label Kilmar Abrego Garcia an MS-13 leader.
July 10, 2025
Felipe De La Hoz
How Extreme Can Democratic Governors Get to Stop Trump?
Blue state leaders have considerable power at their disposal to confront the threat of the administration’s authoritarianism. But some lines have never previously been crossed.
July 7, 2025
Nina Burleigh
E. Jean Carroll Speaks—and She’s Throwing Darts All Across Trumpworld
Joe Tacopina was “disgusting.” Alina Habba, “deliciously arrogant.” Plus, what she’ll do with all that money—if Trump ever pays it.
July 4, 2025
Liza Featherstone
Soldiers Are Taking a Stand Against Trump’s Abuses
On the Fourth of July, members of the military are calling on Congress to protect service members who disobey the president’s immoral or unlawful orders.
July 3, 2025
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Just Teed Up a Major Ruling on Transgender Athletes
The justices agreed to consider challenges to two state bans on trans athletes in women’s sports.
July 3, 2025
Matt Ford
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Heterodox Critiques of SCOTUS’s Right Wing
The newest justice has emerged as the court’s left-wing iconoclast, unafraid to break unwritten rules in challenging her conservative colleagues’ ideological project.
July 2, 2025
The New Republic
Court Battles: A Supreme Court Update
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July 1, 2025
Matt Ford
How Religious Pluralism Lost at the Supreme Court
The conservative justices’ ruling in a case involving LGBTQ-themed books in public schools is likely to benefit larger religious groups and ostracize smaller ones.
June 27, 2025
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Just Gave Trump Three Victories in One Ruling
The conservative justices’ ruling in the birthright citizenship case unshackles the president from lower court rulings that curbed his unconstitutional abuses of power.
June 26, 2025
Matt Ford
The Most Fearful Part of the Supreme Court’s Planned Parenthood Ruling
The conservative majority paved the way for Republican-led states to defund the health care provider. But Clarence Thomas hinted at harsher civil rights disruptions to come.
June 25, 2025
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Picks Trump Over the Rule of Law
The high court has dealt a savage blow to due process and has rewarded the administration for defying court orders.
June 24, 2025
Katherine Kelaidis
MAGA Is Waging an All-Out War on Family Liberty
From forced births to bans on gender-affirming care for minors, the new authoritarian right seeks total state control over intimate family decisions.
June 21, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Threat to Unleash Troops in Cities Just Got Darker and Scarier
The president just won a temporary victory in court on his troops in Los Angeles. His unhinged reaction to it reveals the true depths of his malevolent intentions toward—well, us.
June 20, 2025
Thom Hartmann
Senate GOP’s Remedy for Anti-Trump Lawsuits? Make Them Impossible.
There’s a provision in the Senate’s “big, beautiful bill” that would make plaintiffs against the federal government post huge bonds to file lawsuits. And they’re proud of this crap.
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