Tucker Carlson isn't "just joking" about his support for Russia

From the November 25, 2019 edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight (Fox News)

Tucker Carlson is not “just joking” about rooting for Russia

Amanda Marcotte

Fox News host's Russia "joke" is part of Republicans' move away from democracy and toward racist authoritarian rule

11/26/2019 13:00 EST

Donald Trump, Jim Jordan, Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton and Devin Nunes (Getty Images/Salon)

Final, final Republican defense strategy for Trump: Don the tinfoil, join the conspiracy

Amanda Marcotte

How can we expect Republicans to judge Donald Trump fairly? At this point, nearly all of them are in on the crime

11/25/2019 12:50 EST

Trump’s Ukraine scheme: Real conspiracies and conspiracy theories are not alike

Amanda Marcotte

Fictional conspiracies are competent and rational, but, as Trump reminds us, real conspiracies are usually a mess

11/22/2019 14:50 EST

Former White House national security aide Fiona Hill, left, and David Holmes, a U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, are sworn in to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Impeachment: Trump’s Ukraine extortion scheme comes clear — all roads lead to Putin

Amanda Marcotte

With the gaps filled in, Trump's plot to extort Ukraine into helping him rat-f**k Biden in 2020 becomes clear

11/21/2019 14:30 EST

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Laura Cooper, right, and State Department official David Hale, are sworn in to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

The latest GOP defense of Trump evaporates with a whimper

Amanda Marcotte

In a evening hearing, Republican efforts to deny Trump withheld aid to Ukraine as part of extortion campaign fail

11/20/2019 19:38 EST

U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland gives his opening statement as he testifies before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

“We followed the president’s orders”: Sondland gives up Trump — and everyone else

Amanda Marcotte

Former Trump loyalist Gordon Sondland rats out Trump and multiple senior White House officials in Ukraine scheme

11/20/2019 12:45 EST

Ambassador Kurt Volker, left, former special envoy to Ukraine, and Tim Morrison, a former official at the National Security Council are sworn in to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. ( (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Even the Republican witnesses make Donald Trump look like a depraved criminal

Amanda Marcotte

GOP-called witnesses Kurt Volker and Tim Morrison portray Trump as a conspiracy theorist who must be controlled

11/19/2019 19:15 EST

Jennifer Williams, an aide to Vice President Mike Pence, left, and National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, are sworn in to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Impeachment: There goes Trump’s “hearsay” defense; GOP tries to out whistleblower

Amanda Marcotte

Lt. Col. Vindman and Williams blow a hole through another Trump defense — and implicate Pence in Ukraine scandal

11/19/2019 13:25 EST

US President Donald Trump delivers remarks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on November 15, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Zach Gibson/Getty Images)

Democrats are not “censoring” Donald Trump — his increasingly desperate staff is doing that

Amanda Marcotte

Democrats would love Trump to testify before Congress. His staff is doing whatever it can to keep him off Twitter

11/18/2019 12:30 EST

Former Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, and US President Donald Trump (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/Matt McClain/The Washington Post)

They say Trump lies. They say he’s racist. But they still won’t call him out for misogyny

Dan Froomkin

We all understood the sexist subtext of Trump's tweets about Marie Yovanovitch. So why won't reporters say so?

11/18/2019 07:00 EST

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Abigail Spanberger and Kendra Horn (Getty Images/Salon)

“See Jane Win”: How Democratic women drove the 2018 blue wave

Amanda Marcotte

In "See Jane Win," journalist Caitlin Moscatello takes a deeper look at the women who took back power in 2018

11/17/2019 06:00 EST

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testifies during the House Select Intelligence Committee hearing on the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump on Friday Nov. 15, 2019. (Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Marie Yovanovitch testifies — and kneecaps a central Trump defense

Amanda Marcotte

Facing real-time attacks from Trump, ex-Ukraine ambassador testifies to Trump's relentless campaign of corruption

11/15/2019 16:43 EST

Donald Trump and Mike Pence (Brendan Smialowski/Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Trump has a Mike Pence insurance policy: The sanctimonious veep is implicated too

Amanda Marcotte

A brief but telling moment from Wednesday's hearing suggests Trump is protecting himself by implicating his veep

11/14/2019 12:30 EST

Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs George P. Kent (L) and top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine William B. Taylor Jr. are sworn in before testifying before the House Intelligence Committee in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill November 13, 2019 in Washington, DC. In the first public impeachment hearings in more than two decades, House Democrats are trying to build a case that President Donald Trump committed extortion, bribery or coercion by trying to enlist Ukraine to investigate his political rival in exchange for military aide and a White House meeting that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky sought with Trump. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

First day of impeachment hearings: Once again, all roads lead to Putin

Amanda Marcotte

Day One of hearings makes clear how much Trump's actions in Ukraine benefited Putin's designs on that country

11/13/2019 15:02 EST

NIkki Haley, John Kennedy and Jim Jordan (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Republicans will claim Trump was going after corruption: You just have to laugh

Heather Digby Parton

Republicans' strategy on impeachment is the most ludicrous possible: Defending the most corrupt president ever

11/13/2019 08:30 EST

White House senior adviser Stephen Miller (C) is seen during a congressional picnic on the South Lawn of the White House (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Hard evidence that Stephen Miller is a white nationalist — and why that isn’t “old news”

Amanda Marcotte

Internet cynics claim we all knew about Miller already. So why has the right worked so hard to cover up the truth?

11/12/2019 18:03 EST

Trump’s last line of impeachment defense: Repeating big lies about Joe Biden

Amanda Marcotte

Trump can't defend himself on the merits. But he might be able to muddy the waters by falsely accusing Joe Biden

11/12/2019 13:15 EST

Lindy West reclaims the “witch hunt”: On comedy, feminism and why terrible men think they’re victims

Amanda Marcotte

In her new book "The Witches Are Coming," Lindy West turns her gimlet eye on the ruin of America in the Trump era

11/09/2019 13:00 EST

Michael Bloomberg, Bill Gates and Leon Cooperman (Getty Images/CNBC)

Now Mike Bloomberg wants to run: Why are these whiny billionaires all up in our faces?

Amanda Marcotte

Michael Bloomberg's proposed run is just the latest in a series of billionaire tantrums over Elizabeth Warren's run

11/08/2019 13:00 EST

Jeff Sessions, Bill Barr, Donald Trump and Joe Biden (Getty Images/AP Photo/Anna Moneymaker/Zach Gibson/Drew Angerer/Andrew Harnik/Nicholas Kamm)

No free pass for Republicans: They don’t get to pretend this nightmare never happened

Amanda Marcotte

Trump's enablers are corrupt and evil — they don't get to have an "epiphany" and move on after he leaves office

11/07/2019 13:31 EST

Equal Rights Amendment protest (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images)

Phyllis Schlafly’s dead, but the Equal Rights Amendment may come back to life

Amanda Marcotte

Virginia going blue means there could be 38 states ratifying the ERA, reviving a long-dead feminist dream

11/06/2019 13:25 EST

US President Donald Trump, Rep. Mark Meadows, and Rudy Giuliani (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

If loving conspiracy theories is wrong, Republicans don’t wanna be right

Amanda Marcotte

Trump faces impeachment for chasing conspiracy theories, but Republicans can't stay away from the tinfoil hats

11/05/2019 13:25 EST

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during a Cabinet meeting at The White House on October 21, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump’s new impeachment strategy is familiar: Don’t believe your lying eyes

Amanda Marcotte

Trump keeps saying "read the transcript." But that's obviously the last thing he wants his supporters to do

11/04/2019 13:25 EST

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, Rep. Matt Gaetz, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Susan Walsh/J. Scott Applewhite/Wong Maye-E/Salon)

Sorry, pundits: The problem isn’t “polarization” — Republicans have lost their damn minds

Amanda Marcotte

Mainstream media loves the "both sides" narrative. But the real problem is that the GOP has snapped the tether

11/01/2019 13:30 EDT