
Krugman: Trump-MAGA are in Desperate Denial About the Economy
It’s one of the strangest disconnects in our politics today: By many metrics, the economy is doing extremely well, yet President Biden’s approval numbers on the economy are in the toilet. With the lat...
5 Feb 202436min

Trump’s Legal Mess Triggers Shocking New Levels of Right Wing Grift
This week, we learned that Donald Trump’s fundraising committees channeled an extraordinary $50 million toward bankrolling his myriad legal defenses throughout 2023. Such sordid trickery has a long hi...
2 Feb 202430min

Alarming New Polls Show Trump Ahead. So Why do Dems Keep Winning?
A frightening new batch of polls this week showed President Biden trailing Donald Trump in all the key battleground states. And yet, as bleak as the polling has looked, Democrats racked up an impressi...
1 Feb 202425min

MAGA’s Ugly New “Civil War” Fantasy Should be Taken Seriously
Far-right personalities are fantasizing about “civil war” again, amid a standoff between Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the feds over border enforcement. That may seem silly, but unbridgeable differen...
31 Jan 202444min

Meet the Lonely Republicans Who Think Trump is Disqualified from Running
Three former Republican governors—Marc Racicot of Montana, Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey, and Bill Weld of Massachusetts—have signed on to a legal brief to the Supreme Court arguing that Donald...
29 Jan 202434min




















