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Toddlers are superior to Donald Trump in all ways, but they share one trait with the old man: A tendency to veer wildly between throwing tantrums or...
"Study in contrasts" is an entirely inadequate phrase to describe the different experiences of President Joe Biden and Donald Trump over the weekend....
As a lifelong lover of the English language, I'm being slowly driven mad by one word that haunts the news coverage these days: "affair." It's the...
Andrew Tate may be facing a mounting number of international charges for alleged sex crimes, but this doesn't mean we've seen the end of "masculinity...
As far as symbols of what the GOP intends for American women, the revival of an abortion ban that predates women's suffrage could not be more fitting....
"Is Corporate America in Denial About Trump?" read a headline in the New York Times Magazine over the weekend. In it, staff writer Jonathan Mahler...
On Monday, with great fanfare, Donald Trump released his "plan" on abortion in a video posted to Truth Social. As with most things Trump says, the...
Men are punching random women on the streets of New York City. As usual with these kinds of diffuse and chaotic stories, there's much that is unknown,...
Charlie Kirk, the head of the MAGA propaganda behemoth Turning Point USA, recently unveiled a novel theory as to why young women tend to vote for...
When I saw the news that the stock price of Truth Social went into freefall after the company initally went public for $8 billion, I immediately sent...
Donald Trump, as usual, is unhappy. Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over Trump's first criminal trial in Manhattan, just expanded an already...
Most Americans spent Easter weekend with traditional activities like church or egg hunts, or, for non-Christians, just enjoying the lovely spring...
"Stand where he tells you to stand, wear what he tells you to wear, and do what he tells you to do." This is the wedding night advice offered to...
As with many news items in the Donald Trump era, we must file this under "shocking, not surprising": People who are being interviewed by the newly...
Earlier this week, Donald Trump unveiled his newest grift to squeeze money out of his cult followers: Trump-branded Bibles. Claiming the book contains...
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the group that argued against the abortion pill before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, does not hide that its goal...
As anyone who listens to him can attest, Donald Trump may be the most self-pitying person on planet Earth. Pretty much all the man does is whine and...
Nine people died as a result of the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection that Republicans pretend was a "normal tourist visit." Four rioters and five police...
"Hands off Trump Tower!" So reads a recent fundraising email from Donald Trump's joint fundraising campaign. Most of the email is an extended whine...
In his 2022 majority opinion for Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, Justice Samuel Alito took great pains to argue that allowing states to ban abortion...
For those readers who have the self-esteem not to engage in the world of Christian right social media, let's just get this out of the way: It's heavy...
When Donald Trump declared "If I don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath" during his rally speech in Ohio Saturday, two things were...
Last week saw national headlines regarding two tragic stories that illustrate how MAGA radicalization of adults endangers kids in school. First, a...
It's certainly a match made in hell: Anti-vaccination conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced that he's considering New York Jets...
It's wild what a few short months of actually getting to know a person can do to your opinion of them. That's what House Republicans seem to have...
Donald Trump's infatuation with Adolf Hitler is both well documented and profoundly disturbing. What's often overlooked is how painfully stupid it is....
It can be confusing, tracking the multiple lawsuits journalist E. Jean Carroll filed against Donald Trump, who sexually abused her in the 90s and...
Politicians love to talk about their families, but in her Thursday night response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech, Sen. Katie...
As social media stunts go, it's hard to top this one: Give birth to your eighth child at age 33. Then, just two weeks later, compete in a beauty...
Wednesday morning, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley did everyone a solid by being brief in her remarks as she dropped out of the Republican...
Despite the best efforts of the Beltway press to present him as a spry young man next to 81-year-old Joe Biden, it's getting harder by the day to...
It's become a tedious trope, the Beltway journalist who goes on a red state safari to ask Donald Trump voters if they still like Trump. It frustrates...
Former Gov. Nikki Haley, R-S.C., gets a lot of glowing coverage simply because she occasionally criticizes Donald Trump in her fruitless presidential...
Last week, the "whistleblower" that House Republicans were counting on to justify a long-planned impeachment of Joe Biden was arrested for lying to...
If there were only some way to prove it, I would happily bet everything I own that Donald Trump does not believe in God. Not because he's carefully...
The public discourse right now is being hijacked by one of those periodic temper tantrums over the existence of unmarried women. Mainstream media...
There are many questions that immediately crop to mind upon hearing state Sen. Bill Eigel, R-Mo., claim that a "1-year-old could get an abortion...
Despite taking their own sweet time to render what should have been a five-minute decision ruling that Donald Trump is not immune from criminal...
Of the many weird, cringeworthy, or confusing ads to run in the Super Bowl on Sunday, one stood out as especially eyeroll-inducing: a footwashing ad...
By any reality-based measure, the collapse of Republican support for the recent immigration bill is bizarre. For years, Republicans have been...
The big news that kicked off this week was that the Supreme Court set Thursday to hear oral arguments over whether or not Donald Trump should be...
The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments Thursday over whether or not Donald Trump should be removed from the ballot, as both the plain...
Even astute news consumers could be forgiven for missing the recent story about sexual abuse allegations against Walt Nauta, the "body man" for Donald...
Thursday brought people who are worried about the survival of democracy welcome polling news from Quinnipiac University: For the first time in...
If it wasn't for the head of his murdered father's body, a video posted on YouTube by Justin Mohn Tuesday night would be indistinguishable from much...
Well, that spiraled rapidly. On Sunday night, the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Baltimore Ravens, in a win that cinched a Super Bowl spot for the...
Not that she'll ever bring herself to use words like "rapist" or "sexual predator," but former Gov. Nikki Haley, R-S.C., is ready to admit out loud...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is constantly being harassed by MAGA men, and so it's no surprise she understands what fuels them: insecurity....
Keeping with his habit of being the worst person alive, Donald Trump reacted to his victory in New Hampshire's Republican primary Tuesday by being a...
Tuesday night's primary results from New Hampshire are going to be a shock to a lot of people's systems. For weeks, the Beltway press heavily hyped...