Ben Domenech

Gaetz pulls out

22 November 2024 4:43 am

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

22 November 2024 12:55 am

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

21 November 2024 2:11 am

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

18 November 2024 10:00 am

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

14 November 2024 7:34 am

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

13 November 2024 1:22 am

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

7 November 2024 7:55 am

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

6 November 2024 12:47 pm

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

6 November 2024 1:44 am

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

30 October 2024 2:07 am

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

23 October 2024 6:38 am

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

22 October 2024 12:40 am

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

17 October 2024 2:02 am

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?

8 October 2024 12:49 am

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

2 October 2024 2:42 pm

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

2 October 2024 2:36 am

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

25 September 2024 1:24 am

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

17 September 2024 1:43 am

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

12 September 2024 11:35 pm

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

10 September 2024 1:10 am

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

4 September 2024 10:49 pm

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

22 August 2024 6:44 am

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

21 August 2024 12:48 am

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

20 August 2024 5:05 am

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

19 August 2024 12:55 pm

So how exactly does a political candidate who fell on her face in the most dramatic way possible, whose campaign…