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Could We Really Be Headed Toward—Gulp—Speaker Stefanik?

The House of Representatives—or more specifically, a few Republicans therein—is ...

Bankman-Fried Considered Paying Trump to Not Run for Pr...

Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange ...

John Roberts: An Unradical Man Leading a Radical Court

The membership of the Supreme Court has almost entirely turned over since John G...

Guess Who Far-Right Republicans Want to be the Next Hou...

Republicans have booted Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House. But don’t worry,...

Rahimi: The Case That Might Turn the Court Even More Ex...

In June 2022, the Supreme Court issued the most extreme Second Amendment decisio...

What Homeowners Owe Others in the Climate Crisis

Last week, rain hammered New York City, filling the subways and the streets—and ...

Republicans Are Freaking Out Immediately After Ousting ...

House lawmakers have for the first time ousted their own speaker—and no one has ...

Kevin McCarthy Got What He Deserved

If there’s one thing to say about Kevin McCarthy’s ouster as speaker of the Hous...

House Republicans Make History by Kicking Out Their Own...

Kevin McCarthy lost a bruising vote on Tuesday to remove him as speaker of the H...

The Surprising Argument That Could Save America’s Consu...

The Supreme Court’s oral arguments in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Co...

Trump’s Big Mouth Just Cost Him at New York Fraud Trial

The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s fraud trial in New York issued a gag order o...

Serial Scammer George Santos Delivered the Perfect Hous...

Representative George Santos made a frustratingly good joke Tuesday about the on...

Hakeem Jeffries Is the Big Winner in the McCarthy Trials

The most powerful person currently residing in the House of Representatives is n...

Blabbering Donald Trump Essentially Admits to Fraud in ...

Donald Trump kicked off the second day of his fraud trial in New York on Tuesday...

Kevin McCarthy Can’t Count on Democrats to Save Him. He...

Kevin McCarthy’s hold on the House speaker’s gavel may soon be coming to an end....

Matt Gaetz Has No Idea What He’ll Do After Expelling Ke...

After months of threatening, Representative Matt Gaetz finally filed a motion to...

John Kelly Confirms Trump’s Most Vile Comments About th...

Former White House chief of staff John Kelly has confirmed that Donald Trump cal...

Lina Khan vs. Amazon: Excessive Bigness Has Got to Stop

One great achievement of Bidenomics that you may not have seen celebrated is the...

The Supreme Court Eyes Its Next Big Power Grab

Who gets to govern the United States? The Constitution begins with the immortal ...

Joan Didion vs. the Political Insiders

Joan Didion has had a startlingly active afterlife. A star-studded memorial, a p...

The Purdue Case: Can the Rich Use Bankruptcy Law as Cover?

To an ordinary person, there’s a lot that doesn’t make sense about Harrington v....

No, the Government Isn’t Coming for Your Burger—but May...

A key goal of climate policy is to regulate and eventually phase out polluting i...

Cornered Trump Launches Panicked, Racist Attack as $100...

Donald Trump’s fraud trial began Monday in New York, and the former president is...

Michigan Republicans’ Plan to Overturn Voting Rights Is...

Michigan Republicans have filed a lawsuit trying to overturn two major voting ri...

Donald Trump’s Favorite New York Judge Has Even More Ba...

The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s business fraud case in New York has made...

New Jersey GOP Candidate Blames Poop-Smearing Incident ...

Republican candidate for New Jersey State Assembly Joseph Viso Jr. confessed to ...

With Jon Fosse’s Win, the Nobel Prize in Literature Is ...

After enormous dramas, intense scandals, a notable awardless year, a subsequent ...

Why Is TNR Hosting a Stop Trump Summit? It Should Be Pr...

I was on Morning Joe Thursday morning as part of a lively panel about Donald Tru...

The Attack on Wisconsin’s Governor Perfectly Sums Up Ou...

A man tried this week to attack Democratic Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers, twice ...

Nancy Mace All but Brags About Her Hypocritical House S...

Nancy Mace was called out for trying to fundraise off voting to vacate the House...

Republicans Are So Mad They’re Airing All of Matt Gaetz...

Republicans, livid that Matt Gaetz plunged the House of Representatives into tur...

Who Did in Kevin McCarthy? Maybe Not Gaetz. Maybe Not E...

Did bond vigilantes kill Kevin McCarthy? Before you answer, “Of course they didn...