President Trump today at the United Nations. Spencer Platt / Getty Images • Why fire Rosenstein today when you can set up a cliff-hanger for Thursday? White House officials said Monday that Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein will stay in his job for now, but will meet with the president on Thursday to discuss […]
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A High-Level “Resistance” Mole Inside the Trump Administration Just Published an Anonymous New York Times Op-Ed
No doubt President Trump is going to react well to this one.
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Paul Ryan: Trump’s “Just Trolling People”
Now, more than twenty months in the Trump presidency, he tells us.
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Trump’s “Disgraceful,” “Treasonous,” and “Shameful” Press Conference With Vladimir Putin
Did Trump finally cross a line that will cause Republicans in power to act?
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Trump Nominates Conservative Judge Brett Kavanaugh for Vacant Supreme Court Seat
Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s second nominee to the US Supreme Court. Alex Wong / Getty Images Midterm elections have consequences. “Miserably low turnout in the 2014 midterms helped Republicans take the Senate,” David Leonhardt reminds us, “which in turn allowed them to steal a Supreme Court seat from Barack Obama. And mediocre turnout in 2016 […]
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Pregnant Women Say They’re Being Shackled and Denied Medical Care by ICE
One woman described “bleeding out” and losing her baby while in detention.
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What the Supreme Court Voter Purge Ruling Means
Today the Supreme Court made it easier for states to kick people off their voter registration rolls. Getty Images In a 5-4 ruling, with all the liberal justices dissenting, the US Supreme Court today upheld Ohio’s right to purge infrequent voters from its lists of approved voters. Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the majority opinion, […]
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What You Need to Know About Tonight’s Trump-State Primaries
It’s another Tuesday filled with important primaries, including Senate race primaries in West Virginia, Ohio, and Indiana. Lady-Photo / Getty Images The march through the primary calendar continues today, with the political world focused on three US Senate primaries in states that Trump won by significant margins in 2016. What makes the primaries in these […]
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Who’s Oliver North? An Explainer for Those Born After He Was Indicted
Oliver North, 74, is the new president of the NRA. Mark Wilson / Getty Images Thirty years ago, Oliver North, the former Reagan administration official, was indicted on 16 counts for his role in the Iran-Contra Affair. Today, in keeping with Trump-era trends, North is the new incoming president of the National Rifle Association! But […]
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Poll: American Millennials Are Becoming More Supportive of Republicans as Midterms Approach
If this poll is to be believed, the trend toward voting Republican is particularly pronounced among young white men.
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Don’t Know What Palantir Is? You Need To.
Peter Thiel, founder of Palantir, endorsing Donald Trump at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Alex Wong / Getty Images If you watched Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance before Congress earlier this month, you might have heard Washington State Senator Maria Cantwell questioning the Facebook CEO about his awareness of a company called Palantir. Cantwell’s first question to […]