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social studies
Jan. 27, 2025
The Cultural Ascendancy of the New Young Right Among the gleeful, confident, and casually cruel Trumpers who, after conquering Washington, have their sights set on the rest of America.
early and often
Jan. 4, 2025
Steve Bannon’s Second Term Within seven days, he got out of prison and helped win a presidential election. Now it’s time for war.
2024 election
Nov. 16, 2024
The End of Denial How Trump’s rising popularity in New York (and everywhere else) exposed the Democratic Party’s break with reality.
we’ll do it live
Nov. 11, 2024
What the F**k Just Happened? And What Happens Now? Live Updates An updating look at the most compelling reactions, analysis, and commentary emerging in the aftermath of Trump’s monumental victory.
early and often
Nov. 3, 2024
The Last Stand of the Never Trumpers What does it mean to be a Republican for Kamala Harris?
the national interest
Sept. 19, 2024
Mark Robinson and the Republican Wackjob Problem What happens when you stop trying to keep out the kooks.
early and often
Aug. 14, 2024
J.D. Vance Is Bombing His Audition As Trump Heir Apparent He has hurt — rather than helped — his ticket, and the future is not bright for failed veep nominees.
republicans
July 19, 2024
The Most Unhinged Moments From the RNC Trump referenced Gypsy , Amber Rose abandoned her morals, and we met a fabulous dog.
2024 election
July 18, 2024
Bandaged Ears Are the RNC’s Hot New Accessory In homage to Trump, some Republicans are copying his look.
2024 election
July 18, 2024
Trump’s Granddaughter Just Made Her RNC Debut Seventeen-year-old Kai Trump said “The media makes my grandpa seem like a different person.”
Republicans Have Bed-Wetters, Too At the RNC, some Trump campaign officials and allies think their good luck will run out and worry that their theory of the victory might be wrong.
It Was Losers Night at the RNC One by one, Trump’s former rivals kissed the ring.
2024 election
July 16, 2024
Amber Rose’s MAGA Rebrand Is Complete She appeared at the Republican National Convention to tell the audience the “media has lied to us” about Trump.
The Nursemaids of National Conservatism At a conference on the future of the right, women are a resource for men.
the body politic
June 17, 2024
Are Republican Women Okay? The baffling, contradictory demands of being female in the party of Donald Trump.
early and often
May 9, 2024
Uvalde’s Next Congressman Might Be a Gunfluencer In the latest battle of the Republican civil war, a Texas moderate is challenged by “The AK Guy.”
early and often
May 8, 2024
Kari Lake’s Worst Enemy Is a Republican Falsely accused of stealing the last election, Stephen Richer decided to sue. The lawsuit could bankrupt her.
early and often
May 6, 2024
The Wildest Things Trump Said at His Private Mar-a-Lago Donor Retreat Over the weekend, Trump compared the Biden administration to the Gestapo and bragged he was bigger than Taylor Swift.
early and often
Apr. 22, 2024
Passing Ukraine Aid Doesn’t Make Mike Johnson a Bipartisan Hero As with Mike Pence, one good deed can’t erase the Speaker’s long history of toadying to Trump.
foreign affairs
Mar. 10, 2024
Not Just Putin: Why the Right Falls in Love with Dictators Trump didn’t create a new style of politics, according to a new book, but was the extension of a century-old romance with despots.
state of the union
Mar. 8, 2024
early and often
Mar. 5, 2024
Why Nikki Haley Is Still Running She keeps losing to Trump by double digits with no hope of winning the nomination. Her supporters say she’s after something bigger.
the national interest
Feb. 29, 2024
the national interest
Feb. 23, 2024
Trump Has Finally Remade Republicans Into Putin’s Playthings His admiration of Russia no longer renders him strange or suspect within the party.
early and often
Feb. 22, 2024
The Swiftboater Coming for Biden With co-pilot Susie Wiles, Chris LaCivita has brought discipline to the Trump campaign. Is that enough to win?
early and often
Jan. 24, 2024
Why Did Anyone Think They Could Beat Donald Trump? The two best chances are over and there won’t likely be a third.
the national interest
Jan. 21, 2024
DeSantis Finalized the Conservative Movement’s Capitulation to Trump What the Florida governor’s failed campaign to succeed Trump revealed about the future of the Republican Party.
early and often
Jan. 16, 2024
early and often
Jan. 5, 2024
The Plan to Get New Hampshire Liberals to Vote for Nikki Haley If Donald Trump loses the first-in-the-nation primary, this could be why.
early and often
Dec. 7, 2023
Nikki Haley’s Gender Trap Conservative women accept and reject feminism all at once.
early and often
Dec. 7, 2023
The Monumental Special Election to Fill the George Santos Seat He might be out of Congress, but the high drama over his successor is only beginning.
bully pulpit
Dec. 6, 2023
America’s White Evangelical Problem Tim Alberta traces the debasement of his church, which has revolutionized politics for the worse.
early and often
Dec. 1, 2023
George Santos Will Never, Ever, Give Up His Act He got this far by not backing down. Why would he now?
early and often
Nov. 30, 2023
George Santos Is Going Out in the Most George Santos Way Possible In what one member of Congress likened to a “public crucifixion,” he got to play martyr.
early and often
Nov. 2, 2023
The Blood Feud Between New York Republicans and George Santos His own neighbors are leading the charge to expel him from Congress.
early and often
Oct. 28, 2023
Mike Pence Acknowledges Reality The former vice president, who never had a chance against his former boss, is suspending his 2024 campaign.
Before Mike Johnson Was Speaker, He Was Blaming Abortion for School Shootings How Johnson’s years as an anti-abortion soldier of the Christian legal movement prepared him for this moment.
early and often
Oct. 25, 2023
Mike Johnson, the Nice Guy Who Finished First Republicans finally find a Speaker they don’t hate: an arch social conservative who tried to overturn the 2020 election.
early and often
Oct. 20, 2023
Republicans Started a Civil War They Don’t Know How to End Knocking off Speaker candidates is easy, but electing one is impossible so far.
early and often
Oct. 18, 2023
early and often
Oct. 9, 2023
The Race for Speaker Is About to Get Real Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan face off in the Capitol Thunderdome. Here’s how they match up and who else might win the gavel if chaos ensues again.
the power trip
Oct. 7, 2023
Do Any of These People Stand a Chance Against Trump? On the trail with the candidates vying (in theory, anyway) for the Republican nomination.
the national interest
Aug. 28, 2023
What I Got Wrong About DeSantis vs. Trump The personality cult is even cultier than I had thought.
smile with your eyes
Aug. 25, 2023
It’s Mug Shot Day Donald Trump’s booking photo finally dropped.
republican debate
Aug. 23, 2023
34 Things You Missed at the First Republican Debate The candidates danced around Trump, called for invading Mexico, and ganged up on Vivek Ramaswamy. Here are the highs and lows.
past is prologue
Aug. 11, 2023
Trump Didn’t Hijack Reagan’s GOP; It Was Never Fully His Trump represents a pre-Reagan, pre-Bush conservatism that has come storming back, leaving Reagan-Bush conservatism to unpopular elites.
on with kara swisher
Aug. 3, 2023
Chris Christie Says He Was ‘Honest’ When Questioned in Case Against Trump Kara Swisher talks to the former governor and GOP presidential candidate about Trump’s legal peril and the likelihood of him going to jail.
the national interest
July 3, 2023
The Last Republican Politician Can John Roberts stave off a Democratic assault on the Supreme Court?
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