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Arizona Is Now at the Center of Election Investigations
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (375+ words) Both the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are probing the results of the 2020 election in Arizona. Updated on March 10 at 9:21 p.m. ET. Read: "It's a five-alarm fire' Mayes said that her office responded to HSI's request with public records…...
I Recognize the Look on Liam Ramos’s Face
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (409+ words) The 5-year-old was briefly held at Dilley, where families are sent after ICE roundups. What struck me about the second image, and his mother's update, was how familiar his transformation was. I've visited Dilley several times, and have seen many…...
The Murder of The Washington Post
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1220+ words) Today's layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special. We're witnessing a murder. The Post may yet rise, but this will be their enduring legacy. "Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)." "Irangate." "The Bork nomination to the…...
Police and ICE Agents Are on a Collision Course
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (431+ words) Minneapolis may represent the beginning of a broader rupture between local police and federal agents. Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino complained on Thursday that Minneapolis police have been "missing in action," failing to show up when protesters have amassed to…...
The Four Donald Trumps
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (272+ words) The president's political power depends on his ability to play different roles for different parts of his coalition. Over the course of 10 months, we surveyed more than 10,000 people who said they voted for Trump in 2024, and conducted extensive focus groups,…...
MAGA’s Foundational Lie
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (368+ words) Or, the importance of being appalled At 1:42 a.m. on December 19, 2020, Donald Trump'disturbed, humiliated, livid'posted the following message on Twitter: "Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election. Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!" "Them worthless fucking shitholes like…...
Trump's Plan Is Now Out in the Open
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (360+ words) It's getting ever harder to avoid connecting the authoritarian dots. A curtain of darkness is settling over our nation. And it's getting ever harder to avoid connecting the authoritarian dots. Read: The boat strikes are just the beginning Listen: The…...
What Progressives Keep Getting Wrong
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (349+ words) Graham Platner is the perfect embodiment of the left's strategy for returning to power. This is a problem. The Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner has absorbed enough oppo research to kill half a dozen healthy candidacies. Among the stream…...
The Conquest of Chicago
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (957+ words) Can a deep-blue city fend off Trump's ICE crackdown? Sednew said he lives in a mostly Latino neighborhood in northwest Chicago that has been hit hard in recent weeks by raids. "This is not really abstract or political for me....
They Didn’t Have to Do This
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (218+ words) By passing Donald Trump's One Big, Beautiful Bill Act, congressional Republicans have talked themselves into an incomprehensibly reckless plan. Given that President Donald Trump and the GOP, unlike the morons in The Sopranos, are not collectively under the influence of…...