Is Biden running? Is Harris ready? The Democratic donor class needs to chill, baby, chill.

Last month, there was a deluge of hot takes about how Biden needed to bow out of the 2024 race for a range of reasons. Perhaps that standard should be more consistently applied.

The white Highland Park shooter was ruined by weed and women. But the Black victim of police violence in Akron? Well, he must have been dangerous.

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

It’s a lot easier to be the party that wants to break government than it is to be the one that wants to use it.

We’ve just become fatalistic about the possibility of politicians doing anything to stop them.

MSNBC’s decision to bring Jen Psaki onto its network isn’t much better than CBS hiring Mick Mulvaney.

Let’s stop pretending that rules forbidding coordination between campaigns and dark money groups exist.

The celebrity pair’s sad and sordid relationship isn’t a unified field theorem that explains contemporary politics.

Some of the grifters who paved the way for the Russian invasion of Ukraine want to be seen as being on the right side of the war.

Republicans have deftly targeted this election-swinging voter demographic with a massive investment in media and messaging.

Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns have stoked controversy with their revelation-packed book on Trump’s final days in office.

The former president may have shed his outside-the-Beltway skin, but his base—and the party—are even more committed to Trumpism.

The National Review has once again circled back to rejecting Trump, this time in favor of his disciples.

He has repeatedly declared the pandemic is in retreat. He has cast doubt on masks. And he has one of the biggest platforms at The New York Times.

John Mearsheimer and other foreign policy figures are treating Russia’s invasion of Ukraine like a game of Risk.

What the Fox News host’s flip-flop on the invasion of Ukraine says about his influence and read on foreign affairs.

Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Steve Bannon are throwing the Ukrainian people to the wolves for the sake of scoring culture-war points.

It makes sense to be wary of corporate puff pieces. But there are genuine victories to celebrate, often at the local or international level. We need those stories as fuel for the fight.

Her lawsuit against The New York Times, and a misguided CNN essay about Joe Rogan and the January 6 riot, show the risks of straining to make eye-catching connections in the news of the day.