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New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani visits "The Story With Martha MacCallum" at Fox News Channel Studios on October 15, 2025 in New York City. (John Lamparski/Getty Images)

Mamdani to ICE: Follow the law

Alex Galbraith

The mayor-elect of New York City campaigned against ongoing ICE actions in the city

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts before the State of the Union on Feb. 4, 2020. (Leah Millis-Pool/Getty Images)

Supreme Court shaky on Trump's tariffs

Garrett Owen

The court will decide whether or not to invalidate the steep duties of Trump's trade war

New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani delivers remarks at his election night victory party on Nov. 4, 2025. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

GOP turns on itself after big Dem wave

Sophia Tesfaye

MAGA can't win without "big daddy" Trump on the ballot

Jake Clemons (Daniel Perez Garcia-Santos/WireImage/Getty Images)

Jake Clemons is a Beatles convert

Nicole Michael

Clemons joins "Everything Fab Four," sharing how his uncle Clarence changed his tune and helped shape his style

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 04: New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani celebrates as he takes the stage at his election night watch party at the Brooklyn Paramount on November 4, 2025 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Mamdani defeated Independent candidate Andrew Cuomo and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa in the closely watched election for New York City mayor. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

MAGA panics over Mamdani victory

Blaise Malley

Trump allies and right-wing pundits unleashed Islamophobic and anti-immigrant attacks after Mamdani's victory

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 5: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to Senate Republicans at a breakfast in the State Dining Room of the White House on November 5, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump is speaking with Republican senators as the U.S. government shutdown has reached day 36. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump says shutdown hurt GOP elections

Garrett Owen

The president and other Republicans described the results as "negative" for the party

"Little Amélie or the Character of Rain" (GKIDS)

The films preparing kids for the worst

Coleman Spilde

Two new animated films, "Arco" and "Little Amélie," teach kids how to relish joy in a dark and scary world

Former Vice President Dick Cheney is interviewed by executive producer Chris Whipple for 'The Presidents' Gatekeepers' project about White House Chiefs of Staff. (David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)

Dick Cheney paved the way for Trump

Heather Digby Parton

Cheney’s advocacy for expanded presidential powers helped create a would-be autocrat

President Donald Trump holds up a model of his proposed triumph arch at the White House on Oct. 15, 2025. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump's monument fit for an emperor

Benjamin Jasnow

Triumphal arches have historically been symbols of autocracy. Trump's will be no different

Trump doesn’t grasp his own drug war

Troy Farah

The president's war on fentanyl is just another way to expand state power and inflame fear

Prager U founder Dennis Prager, nationally syndicated conservative radio talk show host and writer, speaking at the Turning Point High School Leadership Summit in Washington, DC. (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"Woke-proofing" comes for schools

Emery Petchauer - The Conversation

Oklahoma’s short-lived PragerU teacher assessment was one of former Superintendent Ryan Walters' final projects

(Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

Mamdani topples Empire State machine

Russell Payne

The biggest turnout in a mayoral election in 30 years was a victory for Democrats

Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ), speaks to the media after casting her vote on November 4, 2025. (Photo by Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)

Sherrill elected NJ governor

Alex Galbraith

The congresswoman won a tight race by tying her opponent to Donald Trump's second term

Virginia Democratic Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger waits to speak at a canvass launch event on November 02, 2025 in Lake Ridge, Virginia. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Spanberger wins VA governor's race

Alex Galbraith

The Democratic Party candidate was the frontrunner for her entire campaign

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during the daily press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on September 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Leavitt: Ignore Trump on SNAP

Alex Galbraith

The press secretary had to contradict the president's SNAP freeze ranting

(Michael Buckner / Variety via Getty Images)

Colbert: I'm no "lefty"

Alex Galbraith

The late-night host spoke out about the public's perception of him and his show's cancellation in a new interview

Then-Vice President Dick Cheney attends the 2002 American Patriot Award ceremony in Washington, D.C. (Brooks Kraft / Getty Images)

Dick Cheney dead at 84

Blaise Malley

The leading architect of Iraq invasion remains divisive in death

A person looks at DonaldDaters, a dating app for Trump supporters (CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump supporters still can't find love

Andi Zeisler

There's a reason those "swiping left on Trump supporters" stories won't go out of style

Emma Slater and Andy Richter on "Dancing with the Stars" (Disney/Eric McCandless)

Why we love voting for Andy Richter

Melanie McFarland

Watching the beloved middle aged comic on "Dancing with the Stars" shows we still agree on the important things

Savory muffins, three ways (Ashlie Stevens )

The perfect savory muffin

Ashlie D. Stevens

A little buttery, a little peppery and very ready to riff — meet your new morning obsession.

President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth are greeted by 18th Airborne Corps Commander Lt. Gen. Gregory Anderson on June 10, 2025 at Fort Bragg, N.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Next in Trump's crosshairs? Nigeria

Heather Digby Parton

Prodded by Christian evangelicals, Trump considers invading Africa's most populous — and oil-rich — nation

(Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Andrew Harnik / Joe Raedle / Michael M. Santiago / Universal Images Group)

Social misery in the Age of Trump

Chauncey DeVega

SNAP's suspension is part of MAGA's campaign to tear our society apart

Venezuelan fishermen take precautions in response to U.S. military deployment in the Caribbean, Sept. 24, 2025. (Federico Parra/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump has free rein to kill

Jesselyn Radack

The Office of Legal Counsel is rubber-stamping extrajudicial killings in Latin America

Several members of law enforcement walk down Mullins Station Rd where various state and federal law enforcement agencies involved in the Memphis Safe Task Force. (Photo by Austin Johnson/ Getty Images)

Memphis task force accused of harassment

Wendi C. Thomas, Katherine Burgess - ProPublica

Black residents of Memphis say Trump's crime task force has engaged in racial profiling

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