How Pod Save America helped shape the Democrats' shutdown fight

A racist TV interview helps explain why the president is struggling to cut an immigration deal that averts a government shutdown.

Why the TV network's right-wing bubble is more worrisome than Trump's attacks on the mainstream press

Why one of the best sites on the internet is gone for good

The ex-congressman trolled his fellow Democrats by praising Trump on Fox News. Now he wants his party's support in running for governor.

The GOP capitulated to the president. Now the Democrats represent the only meaningful opposition.

Donald Trump made them realize their dumb luck in life. Now what?

Why an unscrupulous journalist is the ideal chronicler for an unscrupulous White House

Never Trump conservatives are excited that Romney might be Utah's next senator, but he's already tainted by the president.

The real intellectual crisis in higher education is not over free speech, but the quality of speech.

In the Trump era, many commentators on the right have subsumed intellectual principles to partisan politics.

Why the media shouldn’t be distracted by Trump’s attacks on them

Some on the right are rallying around the disgraced liberal senator, for reasons ranging from cynical to principled.