She was a high school student who wanted to pay for braces.

Boebert’s suggestion came just a few hours after she voted against releasing the Epstein files.

Spoiler alert: It’s not JD Vance.

Kari Lake announced a deal to feed content from One America News, the pro-Trump network, to the government-funded international news outlet. It won’t cost anything—except the truth.

Hint: It has to do with how much they hate Elon Musk.

Over the course of the decade, the party has hoped that voters would simply reject him as immoral, uncouth, and unfit for office. They need a stronger argument—and his Cabinet picks give them one.

The president-elect’s pick to run the Pentagon wouldn’t stand a chance of confirmation in the pre-Trump era. Then again, there weren’t any presidents corrupt enough to pick him until now.

What the latest polls on the Trump transition tell us about how to fight back during his second term

It’s great that Matt Gaetz will not be our attorney general. But this may be an example of the Senate saving Trump from himself.

Congressional scholar Norman Ornstein explains why Trump didn’t fight for Matt Gaetz, what’s really going on with Republicans who blocked him, and whether they will check Trump going forward.

As Trump’s A.G. pick implodes, congressional expert Norman Ornstein decodes what’s really going on among the Republicans who delivered him his first big setback—and what more we can expect from them.

An interview with writer Jill Lawrence, author of a new piece about Trump’s “team of outlaws,” about how unsettling it is that the GOP Senate is one of our last defenses against authoritarian rule.

With Republicans informing Trump that Matt Gaetz’s nomination looks unsalvageable, the author of a new piece on Trump’s “team of outlaws” explains why it’s so unsettling that the GOP Senate is our last line of defense.

An interview with congressional expert Sarah Binder, who explains how Trump really can use recess appointments to jam through Matt Gaetz and RFK Jr.—and why it’s so dangerous.

With the president-elect choosing his rogues’ gallery of future appointees, the political press is really wearing out its go-to synonym for crazy.

On regular Earth, Matt Gaetz is an awful A.G. pick in every way. On Planet MAGA, it’s a signal from Dear Leader to senators that they better fall in line.

An interview with writer Nina Burleigh, author of a new piece about Trump’s intentions, about why his choices of Matt Gaetz and RFK Jr. are stirring GOP opposition—and why they signal darkness ahead.

The president-elect is contemplating taking up never-before-used presidential powers to create a separation of powers crisis on behalf of a favored political crony.

An interview with Ben Meiselas, co-founder of the Midas Touch Network, who explains why Trump’s choice of Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard for top roles signals darkness and chaos ahead

As Trump announces his picks of Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard for top roles in his administration, a close chronicler of MAGA explains why the choices signal serious turbulence for our nation.