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?…
How RFK Jr.’s looming exit could rain on Kamala’s parade
There are multiple reports, still unconfirmed at the moment but from reliable sources, that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will end his independent…
A Joe Biden convention with Kamala Harris layered over it
Chicago Even for someone used to the idea of mass media lies, the dichotomy between the way the 2024 DNC…
Kamala’s DNC team is saying the quiet part loud
From the moment Kamala Harris ascended to the status of 2024’s bringer of joy, the vice president has navigated a…
Kamala shoots the moon
So how exactly does a political candidate who fell on her face in the most dramatic way possible, whose campaign…
The myth of a vibes election
I’ve seen it repeated numerous times, most recently by our friends over at the Free Press: 2024 is a “vibes…
Tim Walz is the real-life definition of an MSNBC dad
Well, we knew it would only take so long for even a media-ensconced, Hollywood-produced, consultant stage-managed Kamala Harris to make…