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June 24, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Matt Gaetz Is Furious CNN Wouldn’t Let Trump Spokeswoman Lie on Air
MAGA world is freaking out that Donald Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt was cut off mid-interview.
April 12, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
You’ll Never Guess Who Joined Taylor Swift on the GOP’s Psyops List
House Republicans are bringing out the knives for Mike Johnson.
June 13, 2023
Matt Ford
Yes, Trump Supporters, Functioning Democracies Can Prosecute Former Leaders
Scotland’s Nicola Sturgeon is the latest example.
May 10, 2023
Matt Ford
The Right’s Stupefying Defense of the Supreme Court
Conservatives are up in arms that the high court has become embroiled in a legitimacy crisis.
May 4, 2023
Tori Otten
Mike Lee’s Defense of Clarence Thomas Will Make You Lose Your Mind
The Republican senator is trying to support the Supreme Court justice amid mounting financial scandals. And, well, words do this post no justice.
January 23, 2023
Pablo Manríquez
There’s Bipartisan Agreement on One Thing: Ticketmaster Sucks
In the most polarized Congress probably ever, there are still plenty of Taylor Swift fans, and the Senate will hold a hearing on the monopoly ticket-peddler Tuesday.
November 2, 2022
Sarah Mucha
How Utah’s Democrats Decided to Desert Their Party to Save Democracy
If independent Senate candidate Evan McMullin has any chance at winning a Senate seat, he’s going to need help from some unusual friends.
April 15, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Republican Establishment Tried to Overturn the Election, Too. Mike Lee’s Texts Prove It.
Yes, the Utah senator voted to certify Biden’s victory. But texts between him and Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows show just how deep the GOP effort to overturn the election was.
December 15, 2021
Michael Tomasky
It Turns Out the Senate
Can
Abolish the Filibuster Whenever It Wants
This is how the filibuster carve-out became the hot new thing in making up the rules as you go along.
December 3, 2021
Grace Segers
Republicans’ Anti-Vaccine Mandate Stunt Fails to Shut Down the Government
So that was dumb.
October 11, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
The Martyrdom of Donald Trump
Pandemic be damned, the president intends to see out the conservative mission of cutting out America’s democratic heart.
April 5, 2020
Matt Ford
The Republican Plot Against Voting Turns Deadly
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Trump and his allies are prioritizing their hypothetical grip on power over the life-and-death needs of voters.
January 10, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
The Ulterior Motives of the Anti-War Right
Liberal critics of Trump's Iran belligerence got bipartisan support this week, but they should watch out for their sudden allies' agendas.
March 25, 2019
Magazine
Sarah Posner
Right Makes Might
Long before Trump came on the scene, key congressional Republicans had been sidling up to nativist and authoritarian leaders across the globe.
November 1, 2017
Emily Atkin
Republican senator: NASA disputes climate consensus. NASA: No we don’t.
July 19, 2017
Joon Lee
Even conservatives deplore Jeff Sessions’s civil forfeiture directive.
July 18, 2017
Clio Chang
How Obamacare killed Trumpcare.
July 18, 2017
Brian Beutler
Trumpcare returns to undead zombie state.
July 6, 2017
Brian Beutler
Mitch McConnell admits that Obamacare is not, in fact, broken beyond repair.
June 23, 2017
Graham Vyse
This lone Republican senator opposes Trumpcare for the same reasons Democrats do.
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