Photo-Illustration: Cornyn Lonestar Victory Fund In many years of observing politics, I’ve seen a lot of nasty, negative ads between primary opponents who belong to the same party.…
Read more Cornyn’s Nasty Attack on Paxton May Haunt Texas RepublicansPhoto: Kenny Holston/Getty Images When we heard that Donald Trump’s 2026 State of the Union Address would break his own record for the longest-ever presidential speech to Congress,…
Read more Trump’s State of the Union Was a Bloated Awards ShowWhen The Wall Street Journal asked White what connects MAGA and the UFC, he gave a one-word answer: “Testosterone.” Okay, sure. Also, Trump and White have been friends…
Read more All About the White House UFC Fight on Trump’s BirthdayPhoto: Chip Somodevilla//Getty Images This week, there’s been a lot of attention focused on the U.S. Supreme Court, thanks to its stunning decision blowing up the rationale for…
Read more How Justice Alito’s Retirement Might Upend the MidtermsPhoto: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images Does Heaven exist? And if so, is Donald Trump going to get in? In the last year, President Trump has been publicly musing…
Read more Is Trump Going to Get Into Heaven? Live UpdatesPhoto-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images Meta’s hard and early pivot into artificial intelligence hasn’t exactly gone as planned, with tens of billions of investment dollars sunk into middling…
Read more Big AI Isn’t Waiting for the BacklashPete Hegseth at the Pentagon with his Christian nationalist mentor Doug Wilson. Photo: @PeteHegseth/X At the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on February 5, President Donald Trump…
Read more Talarico Contests MAGA’s Conquest of American ChristianityPhoto: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Hard-core conservative Republicans have been agitating lately for a follow-up to last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. A second budget-reconciliation measure would let…
Read more Trump May Have Already Signed His Last Big Piece of LegislationPhoto: Joseph Sohm/Getty Images Sometimes the forces that lead to major social and political change take years to mature before they become public policy. The environmental movement, for…
Read more Revoking Climate-Change Regulation May Be the Worst Thing Trump Has DonePhoto: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images There’s not much question that the brutal immigration-enforcement tactics on display in Minneapolis and elsewhere have roiled U.S. politics. The resulting furor produced…
Read more How Much Ground Has Trump Lost on Immigration in the Polls?Who needs a right-wing minor-party demagogue like Nigel Farage when you have Donald Trump? Photo: Henry Nicholls/AFP/Getty Images If you aren’t too distracted by the unprecedented events in…
Read more How Political Parties DieGeorgia’s Republican secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is eternally a MAGA target. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images We’re all used to negative campaign ads, but this inaugural offering from…
Read more Georgia Gubernatorial Ad Bashes ‘Judas’ Who Betrayed TrumpWhen asked why the NFL chose Bad Bunny at an October 22, 2025, press conference, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell answered, “He’s one of the leading and most popular…
Read more The Bad Bunny Super Bowl 2026 Controversy, ExplainedHere’s a brief overview of their friendship and falling-out, and how Trump’s political career intersected with Epstein’s prosecution. 1980s to Early 2000s: Trump & Epstein Are Friends. Trump…
Read more What the New Epstein Files Say About Trump: UpdatesPhoto: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images One of the most confusing federal-government shutdowns in living memory began at midnight on January 31 when the stopgap-spending authority that ended the last…
Read more 2026 Government Shutdown: Latest News and Impact on ICEPhoto: Desiree Rios/The New York Times/Redux It’s definitely possible to overreact to special-election results. These episodic contests, often far downballot, tend to attract low, sometimes skewed voter turnout.…
Read more Texas Special-Election Shocker Signals Big Trouble for GOPWrites William Thomas at Empire: In 1935, Adolf Hitler commissioned director Leni Riefenstahl to make Triumph Of The Will, a highly nationalistic and likely heavily staged account of the…
Read more What Critics Are Saying About the Melania DocumentaryThe Amazon founder has been cozying up to Donald Trump for some time, from killing a Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris to attending Trump’s indoor inauguration. In…
Read more Will the Melania Movie Flop? Ticket Sales & What We KnowDays before its premiere, things are looking rough for the Melania Trump documentary. It sounds like the film is on track to flop hard at the box office…
Read more Making the Melania Movie Sounds Like a NightmareNaturally, Senator Lisa Murkowski, Representative Thomas Massie, and a handful of other congressional Republicans who regularly dare to defy Trump spoke out against the administration after Pretti was…
Read more All the Trump Allies Turning Against His ICE Tactics