Author: Scott Lemieux
The inevitable was apparently not evitable: When some of the nation’s biggest law firms agreed to deals with President Trump, the terms appeared straightforward: In return for escaping the full.
Jamelle Bouie [gift link] puts the Trump administration's assertions of unchecked power to detain people to lifetime imprisonment in torture prisons -- including the vice president using a massive lie.
JD Vance "won" the vice presidential debate, and in so doing showed why it's en essentially useless format in terms of uncovering truth or providing reliable information for the audience..
Ross Douthat has buyer's remorse less than three months into Trump's presidency, which seems to be based on the fact that he had no idea what he was buying: That’s.
Josh Marshall pithily sums up the choices facing the Supreme Court and Nayib Bukele: I don’t really care what these two men say. The only next step I’m focused on.
Wow, some very savvy investing here, and I wonder what could have compelled her to buy right then? Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, disclosed on Monday that she.

Krugman lays out an excellent case for the proposition that whatever you think optimal tariff levels should be, there is no excuse for anything but clean opposition to Trump's tariffs,.
Life in the new Gilded Age: A man is in custody in relation to the fire set at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s official residence in Harrisburg early Sunday, officials said. Cody Balmer,.