Adam Weinstein

@adamweinstein

Republicans have run the place into the ground. Yet voters keep electing them to state and national office. Why?

The president says the generals hate him because he ends endless wars. That ain't it, chief.

The RNC opened with two themes: Existence is under attack from radical Democrats, and adoring Donald Trump is the only hope.

Most dictators rig elections to win. With his Postal Service gambit, Trump merely wants everybody to lose with him.

Why is Trump’s son-in-law meeting with “presidential candidate” Kanye West instead of bringing peace to the Mideast and saving America from the coronavirus?

Trump, Ron DeSantis, and Betsy DeVos are willing to sacrifice thousands of American lives for nothing more than political points.

The Trump presidency has been a literal call to arms for excitable whites who view nonwhite people as inherent threats.

Ron DeSantis is the latest in a long line of Republicans who made the state a plutocratic dystopia. Now he’s letting its residents die to save the plutocrats.

Mark Milley apologized for his photo op with Trump, but not for the violence he visited on American protesters.

Trump is sending an unambiguous message to a country in turmoil—and his armed supporters, from cops to vigilantes, hear it loud and clear.

As the coronavirus lockdown lifts, I visited the scene of the most notorious spring break party of the pandemic’s early days.

The Pentagon’s ill-advised new “interim” recruiting policy could cause precisely the harm to service members that it seeks to avoid.

The coronavirus pandemic is exactly the excuse Washington has been looking for to start a conflict with China.

Should Las Vegas’s machine-gun rental industry be the future liberals want for assault weapons?

Emergency contagion measures are quickly eroding democracy worldwide.

Suicides, ship quarantines, confused commanders, and stranded families: The Pentagon’s war-weary ranks are fraying amid the pandemic.

Trump, Biden, and other politicians are adopting military rhetoric to comfort Americans. But what they’re really saying is cause for worry.

Democracy, human rights, and rule of law are losing globally. But if Trump wins reelection, the game may be up.

Why did the CBS program ignore a historic Afghanistan cease-fire to profile Eddie Gallagher, the Trump-pardoned Navy SEAL?

Trump's planned expansion of his travel ban is part of a broader authoritarian Big Data grab.