At CPAC Argentina, a Preview of Donald Trump’s Second Term At CPAC Argentina, a Preview of Donald Trump’s Second Term
A far-right international extending from Lara Trump and Steve Bannon to Jair Bolsonaro and Javier Milei joined reactionaries across Europe to promise no safe quarter for the left....
Dec 6, 2024 / Jacob Sugarman
King of Chaos King of Chaos
When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king; the palace becomes a circus.
Dec 6, 2024 / OppArt / Steve Brodner
Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and the Marcos-Duterte Feud Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and the Marcos-Duterte Feud
The clash between the Philippines's dynastic duo is an entertaining political soap opera. But this spat has the potential to turn violent very fast.
Dec 6, 2024 / Walden Bello
OF COURSE Joe Biden Was Right to Pardon His Son OF COURSE Joe Biden Was Right to Pardon His Son
People need to stop asking Democrats to play by different rules than Republicans, and they need to stop asking Biden to be a worse father than any of us would be in his place.
Dec 6, 2024 / Elie Mystal
The Supreme Court’s Hearing on Trans Rights Was Bigotry Masquerading as Law The Supreme Court’s Hearing on Trans Rights Was Bigotry Masquerading as Law
The conservative majority spent much of the oral arguments for US v. Skrmetti trying to erase the trans community.
Dec 5, 2024 / Elie Mystal
Trans Medicine’s “Merchants of Doubt” Trans Medicine’s “Merchants of Doubt”
There is plenty of uncertainty involved in gender-affirming care—as in most aspects of medicine. But the groups behind the Tennessee ban aren’t driven by science—or patient care.
Dec 4, 2024 / Joanna Wuest
Hunter Biden and the Future of Clemency Hunter Biden and the Future of Clemency
Biden knows there is a better way to use it—other people’s children also deserve mercy.
Dec 4, 2024 / Rachel E. Barkow and Mark Osler
Kash Patel Is Trump’s Scariest Cabinet Appointment Yet Kash Patel Is Trump’s Scariest Cabinet Appointment Yet
The president-elect wants to put a “deep state” conspiracy theorist in charge of the actual deep state.
Dec 3, 2024 / Chris Lehmann