Politics
Texas AG Ken Paxton skirts the law—again
Mere months after taking office in 2015, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton surrendered to authorities on three felony counts related...
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Here’s the latest on the case.
The abortion pill case before the Supreme Court could have implications far beyond abortion, potentially undermining the regulatory system for...
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Watch Maddow’s scathing takedown of NBC News for hiring Ronna McDaniel
The response to NBC News’ hiring of Ronna McDaniel, former chair of the Republican National Committee, has been nothing short of...
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Trump team takes sparring with Biden into vulgar territory.
Not long after former President Donald J. Trump held a news conference on Monday about his civil fraud case, a...
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Trump’s Hail Mary to avoid coughing up all that cash works—for now
Last week we examined the most likely scenarios for what might happen when Donald Trump's Monday deadline for coming up...
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Biden, Promising Corporate Tax Increases, Has Cut Taxes Overall
President Biden, amping up a populist pitch in his re-election campaign, has repeatedly said he would raise taxes on the...
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On stuttering presidents and Republican bullies
“Donald Trump mocks Joe Biden’s stutter,” the headlines blare, and I am confronted (again) with (more) proof that the presumptive...
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Murkowski Won’t Vote for Trump and Declines Ruling Out Leaving the G.O.P.
Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, said in an interview released on Sunday that she would not vote for former...
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Restaurants want to amend Arizona Constitution to pay servers less than minimum wage
A Republican measure that would ask voters to let businesses pay employees who work for tips 25% less than the...
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How a Pandemic Malaise Is Shaping American Politics
In March 2020, when Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Donald J. Trump competed for the White House for the first...
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