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Alejandro Mayorkas
July 1, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Lindsey Graham Vows Retribution, Backs Trump’s Ominous Revenge Plan
The South Carolina senator has taken up Donald Trump’s call to persecute political enemies.
April 17, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
McConnell’s Trash Reason Why Senate Should Have Held Impeachment Trial
The Senate voted to adjourn the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
April 12, 2024
Grace Segers
Republicans Are Betting That Trump Got His Abortion Position Right
The highly volatile issue has been a huge factor in recent elections, but GOP lawmakers seem to believe 2024 will be different.
February 27, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Republican Congressman Slams His Party’s Idiotic Impeachment Crusades
Representative Ken Buck has had enough of his own party.
February 13, 2024
Ben Metzner
GOP Congressman Accidentally Gives Real Reason for Mayorkas Impeachment
Republican Representative French Hill just gave away the game.
February 8, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
House Republicans Are in a Wild Rage Over Incompetent Mike Johnson
House Republicans are fed up with Speaker Mike Johnson after all those failures.
February 7, 2024
Tori Otten
Jeffries, Pelosi Enjoying Every Minute of Mike Johnson’s Humiliation
House Democrats can’t stop gloating after Republicans failed to pass their own legislation.
February 7, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Here’s Mike Johnson’s Pathetic, Viral Reaction After Brutal Day of Losing
House Speaker Mike Johnson had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
February 7, 2024
Tori Otten
House Republicans Suddenly Miss Kevin McCarthy After All That Losing
Some House Republicans have buyer’s remorse with Speaker Mike Johnson.
February 2, 2024
Grace Segers
Is Washington Writing the Script for the Next Forever War?
The Biden administration's open-ended escalations in the Middle East are starting to feel like the sequel to a bad movie.
February 1, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
That’s One Vote Lost: House GOPer Shreds Mayorkas Impeachment
House Republicans want to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. But one of their own just defected.
January 31, 2024
Matt Ford
The Republicans Are Performing for an Audience of One
The sham impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas shows that the GOP now exists solely to please Trump.
January 31, 2024
PodcastThe Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
MAGA’s Ugly New “Civil War” Fantasy Should Be Taken Seriously
On some of the biggest stories of the moment, MAGA personalities are forcing the GOP into unbridgeable differences with Democrats.
November 29, 2022
Timothy Noah
Kevin McCarthy’s Pledge to Impeach Mayorkas Is a Gift to Democrats
He doesn’t even know why he wants to put the homeland security chief on trial. Neither does McCarthy’s rival for the speakership, Representative Andy Biggs.
November 17, 2022
James North
Why the Right’s Immigration Demagoguery Crashed and Burned in the Midterms
Democrats thwarted a concerted effort to catastrophize asylum-seekers, but it’s time they discarded the Trump-era ideas that enabled their success.
September 22, 2021
Esther Wang
Biden Is to Blame for the Border Misery
The administration continues to use the pandemic as a pretext for deportations, including those of thousands of Haitian asylum-seekers.
June 29, 2021
Felipe De La Hoz
The Immigrant Families Separated by Trump Are Stuck in Legal Limbo Under Biden
The White House is discovering that the path to undoing the former president’s most despised policy is full of tricks and traps.
April 13, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Biden’s Homeland Security Is Just as Bad as Trump’s
The administration’s policies on the border wall, asylum, and deportation are hardly a break from the last president’s.
January 18, 2021
Timothy Noah
I Went to High School With Biden’s Homeland Security Team
Washington’s new national security establishment is coming straight outta Beverly Hills.
November 24, 2020
Walter Shapiro
Here Come the Adults
Biden’s Cabinet is shaping up to be everything that Trump’s was not.

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