Alex Shephard

@alex_shephard

Two recent speeches from Donald Trump and Mike Pence reveal a lot about the state of the GOP.

Eighteen months after he raised his fist to insurrectionists, the Missouri senator’s political project is stalled.

On Fox News and in other corners of the right, the president’s illness was an excuse to spike the football—and spread misinformation about the vaccine.

Desperate to save his domestic agenda, the president damaged his foreign policy.

There’s no way a guy who helped foment a coup attempt can be covered like a normal presidential candidate.

The Tesla mogul proved his critics wrong—by coming up with a way to wreck the social media company that they never could have expected.

The president may be polling terribly, but the party’s struggle to find fresh blood is as big a concern.

Unless the president reinvigorates his depressed and distressed base, his sinking poll numbers will sink him.

The Utah Republican’s analysis of the problem with American politics is fundamentally flawed.

Democratic centrists are still much better at getting media attention than they are at any other aspect of their job.

Alex Holder, who was recently subpoeaned by the January 6 committee, had incredible access to the first family during the president’s last days in office.

Memo to the media: There’s more to politics than the forty-fifth president and his coattails.

Some conservatives are floating the laughable notion that the GOP will now support bolstering the safety net for families. In reality, the party is already plotting other ways to make families miserable.

The former vice president’s refusal to address his former boss’s attempted coup somehow manages to straddle the line between cowardice and opportunism.

The party is spending big to help some of the most extremist candidates in the country win their GOP primaries. It’s a mistake.

The former NFL star is a serial fabulist, MAGA cultist, and as stupid as they come.

The larger story it’s telling about Trump’s plot to steal the election is much more important than supplying a steady diet of fresh scoops.

They should be worried about their party’s dismal electoral prospects this fall. But making a swap at the top of the ticket isn’t the solution.

The clumsy kickoff of this ill-starred competitor of the PGA has been a window into a tawdriness that infects international sports.

The Los Angeles mayoral front-runner was a member of the GOP until recently and is winning based on wild promises to sweep the city’s problems under the rug.