Latest Trump pardon shows just how much the rules have changed (for the worse)
Donald Trump’s habit of handing out presidential pardons like party favors was a scandal in his first term. It’s worse...
Steve Benen
Trump has decided that Chuck Schumer is ‘not Jewish anymore’
As Trump targets Chuck Schumer, remember: The presidency is a powerful position, but it does not include the power to...
USAID instructs its staff in D.C. to shred and burn documents
If Team Trump had a problem with document destruction in the first term, the issue appears to have metastasized in...
White House’s Elon Musk suggests Social Security could face cuts
After labeling Social Security “a Ponzi scheme,” Elon Musk’s offensive against the social-insurance program took another aggressive turn.
Trump turns White House lawn into car lot for megadonor Musk
It’s easy to grow inured to Trump’s corruption, but his Tesla event on the South Lawn was one of the...
Amid stock market turmoil, Trump haunted by his own standards
Just 18 days after declaring, “The stock market is going to be great,” Donald Trump said, “You can’t really watch...
As a shutdown deadline approaches, Trump uses a word the public rarely hears from him
Trump tends to prefer barking orders, rather than publicly imploring GOP lawmakers to follow his lead. To prevent a shutdown,...
Rubio’s tenure as secretary of state reaches new lows with reported White House tensions
Why does it appear the secretary of state has been sidelined? It might have something to do with the fact...
Seven weeks in, more Trump voters start to feel buyer’s remorse
It’s becoming increasingly common to see reports in which Americans are quoted saying, “I voted for Trump last election, but...”
On the Biden-era economy, Republicans scramble to rewrite history
The problem is not just that Donald Trump and his allies are trying to gaslight the public on the Biden-era...