Donald Trump

Gaslighting on a Global Scale

Gaslighting on a Global Scale Gaslighting on a Global Scale

A conversation with Bonnie Honig on “disaster patriarchy” and how feminism offers the best way to make sense of the post-Trump moment.

Jun 21, 2021 / Q&A / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

Mark Meadows

Trump Toady Mark Meadows Is Running a Legal Group That Promotes White Rights Trump Toady Mark Meadows Is Running a Legal Group That Promotes White Rights

Along with Stephen Miller and others, Meadows is still making life hard for women and people of color. These Trumpists should be doing nothing but testifying in Congress, and the c...

Jun 16, 2021 / Joan Walsh

Senator Mitch McConnell

McConnell Explains How He’ll Steal Another Supreme Court Pick From Another Democratic President McConnell Explains How He’ll Steal Another Supreme Court Pick From Another Democratic President

The Republican signals that if his party retakes the Senate, he’ll block Biden’s high court nominees in 2024—and very probably in 2023.

Jun 15, 2021 / John Nichols

Rep. Kevin McCarthy

Kevin McCarthy Changes His Tune Re Trump and January 6 Kevin McCarthy Changes His Tune Re Trump and January 6

The speakership would be for Kevin His version of a place in heaven. He seems to think to reach that level A pact’s required with the Devil.

Jun 15, 2021 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Media Executives Meet With Attorney General Merrick Garland At The Dept. Of Justice

Congress Can’t Ignore the Trump DOJ’s Apparent Abuse of Power Congress Can’t Ignore the Trump DOJ’s Apparent Abuse of Power

Secretly collecting communications data from reporters, members of Congress, and even his own White House counsel seems like more evidence of Trump’s lawlessness.

Jun 14, 2021 / Joan Walsh

U.S. Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) (R) and Joe Manchin (D-WV)

Are Dems Incapable of Defending Democracy? Or Just Unwilling? Are Dems Incapable of Defending Democracy? Or Just Unwilling?

Bolstering voting rights is both urgent and popular. Yet for all his talk of “existential crisis,” Biden hasn’t turned up the heat on Manchin or Sinema.

Jun 14, 2021 / Column / Jeet Heer

Merrick Garland testimony

Why Is Garland’s DOJ Taking Trump’s Side Against E. Jean Carroll? Why Is Garland’s DOJ Taking Trump’s Side Against E. Jean Carroll?

There is no good reason for the Department of Justice to defend a former president against charges that he defamed a woman he allegedly raped.

Jun 10, 2021 / Elie Mystal

DC capitol

Democracy on a Ventilator Democracy on a Ventilator

Two crises, two emergency lockdowns, but only one is called a matter of public health.

Jun 9, 2021 / S. Eudora Smith

Stop the Steal

We’re Not Out of the Woods Yet We’re Not Out of the Woods Yet

Trump is gone and the vaccine is here. But there are still roadblocks ahead.

Jun 9, 2021 / John Feffer

What Joe Manchin Doesn’t Get About the GOP’s Voter Suppression

What Joe Manchin Doesn’t Get About the GOP’s Voter Suppression What Joe Manchin Doesn’t Get About the GOP’s Voter Suppression

It’s central to Republicans’ political strategy, because their platform is an electoral loser.

Jun 8, 2021 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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