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Abdul El-Sayed’s win in Michigan causes a GOP meltdown

Jason Kyle Howard
Republican efforts to turn the Democratic Senate nominee into a boogeyman betray their fear

FCC commissioners face ethics complaints for taking luxury gifts from Paramount

Corey G. Johnson
Commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC reviewed the company's megamergers

Mitch McConnell is never coming back to the Senate

Amanda Marcotte
The likeliest reason for the Kentucky senator's ruse is also the most pathetic

Judges call out Trump DOJ for “unlawful,” “unethical” and “unseemly” conduct

J. David McSwane, Pratheek Rebala, Carla Astudillo
Federal judges have criticized the administration's prosecutors in hundreds of cases since Trump took office

JD Vance will never be the GOP Obama

Amanda Marcotte
He can copy Obama's biography, but the vice president will never have the charisma

Republicans want a Smithsonian that skips history’s hard parts

Alex Galbraith
A face-off between a Smithsonian official and congressional Republicans revealed the battle over America's meaning

Marco Rubio’s quest to destroy the International Criminal Court

Heather Digby Parton
The secretary of state is using the right's long-standing hatred of the ICC to bolster his MAGA bona fides for 2028

Trump’s Obama vendetta has him trapped in his own forever war

Brian Karem
The president is determined to keep hammering Iran with no concern for the consequences

FCC officials took pricey gifts from Paramount as company awaited merger approval

Corey G. Johnson
Ethics experts say that by accepting the gifts, FCC commissioners are compromising the agency’s impartiality

Democrats say they want a fighter. Does it have to be a White man?

Grace Panetta
Graham Platner's implosion shows difference between masculinity and electability

MAGA media consumed by Mitch McConnell health conspiracies

Sophia Tesfaye
After mocking Joe Biden’s health for years, the GOP has no answer for the Kentucky senator’s mysterious absence

Democratic socialists aren’t the only young, progressive Democrats dividing the party

Charlie Hunt
The Democrats’ reckoning is more complicated than you might think

Let’s fix America with grammar

Kirk Swearingen
In the MAGAsphere, sloppy language leads to foolish thoughts, and much worse

Abundance politics may not win over conservative Christian voters

Mike Lofgren
A new study finds conservative voters value religious identity over economic policy

Most Supreme Court rulings are secretive votes with little justification

Ken B. Morales
The Supreme Court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in secret

Larry David’s sketch series curbs our enthusiasm for American exceptionalism

Melanie McFarland
In HBO's "Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness," the comedian makes pettiness all-American

Tucker Carlson is not leaving the GOP. He wants to take it over

Amanda Marcotte
The podcast host envisions a more radical Republican Party

Obama knows he drives Trump mad. Now he’s taunting him

Sophia Tesfaye
Calling out Donald Trump’s obsession with Barack Obama is the perfect troll

Why MAGA buys Trump’s Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool hoax

Amanda Marcotte
The GOP base would love to arrest people who laugh at them

Even Fox News is panning JD Vance’s Iran clean-up act

Sophia Tesfaye
MAGA media is attacking the administration's deal with Iran — and the vice president is the primary target

“Hope is not blind optimism”: Obama opens presidential center in Chicago

CK Smith
The Obamas urged Americans to embrace citizenship, community engagement, public service at Chicago campus opening

Trump has one chance to save face: Resign now

Brian Karem
If he wants any shot at a positive legacy, time's up. He needs to cut a deal and walk away

The new Obama Presidential Center ramps up Trump’s jealousy

Amanda Marcotte
The Iran war loss cements the current president’s failed legacy

What do we celebrate on Juneteenth?

Jerel Ezell
The holiday marking slavery's end has always carried contradictions. In the Trump era, more so than ever
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