Trump is already tiring of Mike Johnson
Mike Johnson’s status as an accidental speaker, thrust into his role in part because it was so undesirable or impossible…
Democrats are about to get a do-over for their 2017 mistakes
Could 2025 give Democrats a do-over for how they misplayed the results of Donald Trump’s first election? Early signs point…
Trump is already driving the left crazy
A phenomenon that will likely be with us throughout the second term of Donald Trump as president is a dynamic…
Hunter’s pardon is the legacy of Joe Biden’s weakness
So Joe Biden decided to go out by doing the thing. And why not? For all the people who praised…
Gaetz pulls out
In Washington, you don’t name anyone disruptive or potentially transformative to your administration without dealing with flack from the Senate. They…
Ta-Nehisi Coates, the DEIty
A decade ago, in June 2014, the Atlantic published a cover story with a simple declarative title: “The Case for…
Trump 47 is transforming what a cabinet means
The reaction in most elected Republican circles to the naming of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees for the most prominent positions…
The end of NeverTrump
Donald Trump’s sweeping victory in the 2024 election saw the end of a host of political assumptions — about the…
Thune rises to the top
It took John Thune just two ballots to get the job of the new majority leader of the Senate, replacing…
Trump’s very catholic cabinet
Donald Trump’s second term administration is taking shape, and thus far it’s turned out to be impressively Catholic in its…
The winners and losers of the 2024 election
Every election has winners and losers that extend beyond the politicians themselves, but in this particularly unique situation, the sheer…
It’s a grim start to the night for Kamala Harris
This is a grim night so far, in terms of every piece of data that we have about how Kamala…
The meme election comes to a close
For most of American history, elections took a long time. Many of the gaps that still exist today between when…
Trump’s closing argument is for the faithful supporter
For the past several months, it’s been well apparent that Donald Trump is winning this election. There are numerous factors…
Do not under any condition let Liz Cheney babysit your kids
I don’t understand why Liz Cheney thinks we would trust Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff with our children when we…
Unpacking the race for the US Senate
In the middle of the most chaotic presidential election in the modern era, with its death race through senility, assassination…
The Big Dog unleashed on immigration
The Big Dog has returned to the campaign trail, and he’s up to his old tricks. No, not those tricks — the…
Does Joe Biden want Kamala Harris to lose?
On Friday, two minutes after Kamala Harris walked on stage at a campaign event in Detroit, Joe Biden decided to…
A debate night for Vance to remember and for Walz to forget
It’s not always easy to tell who wins a political debate. Sometimes performances need time for people to process them…
Tonight’s vice-presidential debate might actually matter
Vice-presidential debates rarely matter in politics except as fodder for jokes and, for today’s lazier commentariat, memes of the lesser variety.…
Gretchen Whitmer’s struggle shows Democrats’ Israel problem isn’t going away
Democrats have an Israel problem that isn’t going away any time soon. Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer illustrated why this weekend…
Trump and Kamala are competing over who’s more online
The messaging in the 2024 election has devolved into a contest to determine which campaign is more online, to their…
Tim Walz’s Minnesota vibes
The first thing a Minnesota political activist tells me when I ask about Tim Walz is this: when he gets…
Kamala has more to lose in the debate than Trump
The Kamala Harris campaign team apparently based their debate strategy assuming that ABC News would prove as pliable and willing…
Tucker Carlson is just asking questions
Tucker Carlson is just asking questions. Questions like: what if Andrew Tate’s camgirl harem is actually the height of masculinity?…
