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| Aug 30, 2026 | Who is Natalie Harp? Americans have a right to know. (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
It’s summertime, and the living is uneasy, particularly in Washington newsrooms and bureaus. At this time of year, historically, serious news can be harder to find than the newspeople available to ... |
| Aug 11, 2026 | Elon Musk Wants To Get Into Wireless Phones And He’s Probably Not Going To Have A Good Time | There have been rumblings for a while that America’s richest and most annoying white supremacist, Elon Musk, really wants to get into the wireless phone business. His lobbyists have been making noise in support for broader phone unlocking r... |
| Apr 2, 2026 | Pete Hegseth’s holy war (Editorial) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
As Donald Trump’s war with Iran grows more volatile by the day, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s bloodthirst and proselytizing risks spinning the conflagration further out of control.
In a war with... |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation For Propaganda | U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week posted a photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of three activists who had entered a St. Paul, Minn. church to confront a pastor who also serves as acting field director of t... |
| Jan 20, 2026 | Can You Trust Mark Meador? | The FTC remains politicized. One commissioner is leading the way—when it suits him.
The Federal Trade Commission under Lina Khan was not a well-run institution. I wrote about this at the time, often and at length, and I regret nothing. But ... |
| Jan 11, 2026 | Democrats could avoid a lot of trouble with a little ego management (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Matt K. Lewis
As we head into 2026 and Democrats try to figure out how to regain power, their New Year’s resolution should be simple: Manage egos better.
In recent years, they seem to have forgo... |
| Dec 4, 2025 | Trump Administration Stops Fucking Around On Immigration, Hangs Official ‘Whites Only’ Sign | A recent shooting involving a former Afghani US counter-terrorism asset who worked with the CIA (!!!) has become the tragedy the Trump administration apparently needed to go from “consistently racist” to “openly racist.” The wounding of two... |
| Nov 7, 2025 | Progressives warn Democrats against alienating the left and blast Schumer’s Senate leadership | By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Democrats savor their Election Day victories, some are capitalizing on the victory of New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani and calling out party leaders for snubbing progressives, warning that... |
| Nov 6, 2025 | Mamdani’s Win Shows That Believing In Something Beats Performative Hatred | Last week, I wrote about how the Trump administration has replaced any sort of concept of governance with governance-by-trolling—a government optimized purely for making a huge segment of the country angry while the base cheers them on. The... |
| Nov 3, 2025 | 60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris | 60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is currently being described as “nuts.” There are all sorts of crazy moments to call out, bu... |
| Jul 31, 2025 | ICE Is Spending More Time Targeting The Least Dangerous People In America | The “worst of the worst” ruse was never taken seriously by anyone, least of all those who performatively repeated it to serve as cover for their hatred and bigotry.
The mantra means nothing. The same agency that claims it’s doing “God’s wor... |
| Jul 11, 2025 | Bill Gates says Trump’s cuts to USAID are devastating: ‘It’s not too late to reverse them’ | Bill Gates said the effects of President Donald Trump’s USAID cuts are “devastating” but can be prevented.
The Gates Foundation, where Gates is board chair, has worked extensively with the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Gates’ c... |
| May 13, 2025 | The Power Struggle: Blame and Responsibility in the Wake of Spain's Blackout | On April 28, 2025, the Iberian Peninsula plunged into darkness. A massive blackout swept across Spain, Portugal, and parts of southern France. It was one of the worst outages in recent European history. Millions were left without power, str... |
| May 12, 2025 | With Courts Repeatedly Telling Trump Migrants Have Rights, Stephen Miller Suggests It’s Time To Suspend Habeas Corpus | The mass renditioning of migrants hasn’t gone exactly as planned. Sure, it’s resulted in extreme amounts of stupid cruelty, which is very much on-brand for Trump administrations, but the mass deportation efforts have also met with considera... |
| May 6, 2025 | The Fertility Frontier: Navigating the Complex Landscape of IVF Access in America | In the United States, the quest for family-building through in vitro fertilization (IVF) resembles a marathon through a dense forest. The path is fraught with obstacles, from political resistance to financial burdens. As the nation grapples... |
| May 4, 2025 | Opinion: Rick Baldoz: From the Chinese Exclusion Act to pro-Palestinian activists: The evolution of politically motivated deportations | I’m a historian of immigration, U.S. empire and Asian American studies. The current removal orders targeting student activists echo America’s long and lamentable past of jailing and expelling immigrants because of their race or what they sa... |
| Mar 24, 2025 | Contempt Of Court | I think lots of people know the kind of person who thinks they’re more clever than they really are. The kind of person who thinks that they can outwit the system by playing stupid games. The kind of person who thinks that this kind of beati... |
| Feb 12, 2025 | GOP Is Quietly Freaking Out About Elon; Time For Them To Take A Stand | It turns out that when you let the world’s richest man take over significant portions of the federal government, some people might get nervous. Who knew?
Last week we wrote about how some staunch conservatives were finally admitting that El... |
| Feb 6, 2025 | Spam Emails, Spam Lawsuit: The GOP Tries To Break Gmail By Court Order | In 1872 California enacted a law declaring that “every one who offers to the public to carry persons, property, or messages, excepting only telegraphic messages, is a common carrier of whatever he thus offers to carry.” In 2022 the Republic... |
| Dec 4, 2024 | Elon Musk Should Be Shouting About The Florida And Texas Social Media Laws (But Are You Surprised That He’s Not?) | In May 2022 Thierry Breton, at the time a prominent European Commissioner, went to Texas and dropped in on Elon Musk, who was then on his way to buying Twitter. During his visit, Breton did something remarkable: he showed that Elon, whateve... |
| Oct 23, 2024 | National Politics | Harris decries Trump after John Kelly says he wanted generals like Hitler’s | Kelly has long been critical of Trump and previously accused him of calling veterans killed in combat “suckers” and “losers.” His new warnings emerged as Trump seeks a second term vowing to dramatically expand his use of the military at hom... |
| Feb 3, 2024 | Trump is being accused of angrily throwing things — again | Politics Trump is being accused of angrily throwing things — again
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| Feb 3, 2024 | E. Jean Carroll lawyer claims Trump once called her a coded version of the C-word after a deposition | Politics E. Jean Carroll lawyer claims Trump once called her a coded version of the C-word after a deposition
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| Dec 23, 2023 | ИИ опять не признали изобретателем, Hyperloop лопнул, а Apple лишили часов: дайджест главных новостей | Проиграна очередная попытка запатентовать изобретение, созданное с помощью искусственного интеллекта. Регуляторы запретили продавать новые Apple Watch прямо перед Рождеством. Если вы слишком хорошо играете в игру, у вас начинает хуже работа... |
| Apr 19, 2023 | Yo, Lizzo, You’ve Been Lied To. KOSA Will Harm Kids | It’s always a mixed bag when entertainment industry stars get roped into supporting this or that internet regulation. Remember how there was a Hollywood-backed campaign to have a bunch of big name stars support FOSTA, the bill that sounded ... |
| Mar 16, 2023 | The Chatter Podcast: Spy Movies and the Oscars with Alyssa Rosenberg | The Academy loves a good spy flick, and so do we! This week, Shane talks with Washington Post culture critic Alyssa Rosenberg about the enduring power of espionage on the big screen.
Movies like Zero Dark Thirty, the Mission: Impossible fra... |
| Mar 2, 2023 | Paul Ryan didn't hesitate to blame Tucker Carlson when asked about the 'toxic sludge' and 'disinformation' on Fox News | Paul Ryan (left) and Tucker Carlson. Mateusz Wlodarczyk/NurPhoto via Getty Images; Jason Koerner/Getty Images
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Paul Ryan blamed Tucker Carlson for pushing toxic and racist content on Fox News.
Ryan was asked why he, as a Fox board... |
| Jan 18, 2023 | If You Believe In Free Speech, The GOP’s “Weaponization” Subcommittee Is Not Your Friend | “Politics,” the writer Auberon Waugh liked to say, “is for social and emotional misfits.” Its purpose is “to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power.” You could... |
| Dec 15, 2022 | Why the Twitter Files actually matter | Big surprise: The Twitter Files — the reports based on internal Twitter documents and messages that the company’s new owner Elon Musk provided to journalists — have landed as a polarizing salvo in the culture war.
Many inclined to distrust ... |
| Nov 29, 2022 | Kevin McCarthy says Democrats could select the next speaker if Republicans 'play games' on the House floor | House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California. AP Photo/John Locher
McCarthy said Republicans could cede control of the House in January if they aren't unified.
While on Newsmax, the Californian warned against the GOP playing "gam... |
| Nov 19, 2022 | GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger says House Republicans will have a 'totally nonfunctional majority' in 2023 and McCarthy as speaker will be 'the equivalent of the dog who caught the car' | Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., speaks as the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol holds a hearing in Washington, DC, on July 21, 2022. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
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| Sep 1, 2022 | A new media project is working to sneak blocked media into Russia and wants to become a hub for press freedom in totalitarian regimes | Samizdat Online editor-in-chief Anna Trubachova and Kyky.org's Sasha Romanova. Anna Trubachova This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Aug 31, 2022 | Trump timed Air Force One takeoff to coincide with 'Nessun Dorma' crescendo, UK filmmaker recounts | Trump arrives in Air Force One in 2017. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images
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A UK filmmaker recounted how Donald Trump timed the takeoff of Air Force One to coincide with the crescendo of "Nessun Dorma."
Alex Holder said Tr... |
| Aug 31, 2022 | Trump walks in and out of rooms at Mar-a-Lago just to get applause because he loves the attention, a filmmaker who interviewed him there said | Donald Trump and Melania Trump attend a dinner with his family at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on December 24, 2019. Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images
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Trump loves roaming around Mar-a-Lago to get attention, a filmmaker who... |
| May 23, 2022 | Is the United States Totalitarian? | In the three months since Russia began its war of aggression, the character of the country has been changing before our eyes. Its much-vaunted military has been exposed as not only weak, disorganized, and corrupt, but also criminal, engagin... |
| May 20, 2022 | If You Think Free Speech Is Defined By Your Ability To Be An Asshole Without Consequence, You Don’t Understand Free Speech (But You Remain An Asshole) | One of the more frustrating things about the various “debates” regarding “free speech” lately, is how little they are actually about free speech. Quite often, they are actually about people who are quite upset about having to face social co... |
| Feb 21, 2022 | The Chatter Podcast: Presidents' Day and Washington's Legacy with Lindsay Chervinsky | It's Presidents' Day! To mark the day, I recorded this special episode with historian and author Lindsay Chervinsky about the history of this odd holiday--and the legacy of the first president, George Washington.
We spoke about the tensions... |
| Jan 6, 2022 | Thoughts on the Michael Sussmann Verdict | In the years since Donald Trump’s election, the former president’s supporters and opponents have often seemed to occupy entirely separate factual universes regarding both his conduct and the investigations of it.
In the factual universe occ... |
| Dec 9, 2021 | Fred Hiatt | It is the historical custom at the Washington Post editorial page, at least in the print edition, to use a person’s name alone as an editorial headline only on the occasion of that person’s death.
The passing of Fred Hiatt this week at the ... |
| Aug 16, 2021 | What Andrew Cuomo’s Resignation Reveals About the State of American Democracy | On the surface, the fall of Andrew Cuomo is a story about the continuing reverberations of the #MeToo movement, of a politician whose long history of sexual misconduct finally caught up with him. And this is certainly a big part of the stor... |
| Jul 12, 2021 | It Appears That Jason Miller's GETTR Is Speed Running The Content Moderation Learning Curve Faster Than Parler | You may recall that last summer, we mocked how Parler was speed running the content moderation learning curve. It seems that every year a new social media service pops up, insisting that it believes in “free speech” and won’t “censor” anyth... |
| Jul 12, 2021 | It Appears That Jason Miller's GETTR Is Speed Running The Content Moderation Learning Curve Faster Than Parler | You may recall that last summer, we mocked how Parler was speed running the content moderation learning curve. It seems that every year a new social media service pops up, insisting that it believes in "free speech" and won't &quo... |
| May 4, 2021 | Meet Victoria Toensing and Joseph diGenova, the Republican power couple caught up in the FBI’s Rudy Giuliani investigation | Rudolph Giuliani, Joseph diGenova, and Victoria Toensing, attorneys for then-President Donald Trump, conduct a news conference. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Image
Victoria Toensing was served a search warrant alongside Rudy Giul... |
| Apr 21, 2021 | Cops are willing to admit Derek Chauvin is a murderer. Right-wing media stars are still struggling with that fact. | People react after the verdict was read in the Derek Chauvin trial on Tuesday In Minneapolis. Scott Olson/Getty Images
Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd. Even police unions think the jury got it right.
But right-wing sno... |
| Apr 8, 2021 | Republicans Using Incredibly Sketchy And Manipulative 'Dark Patterns' To Dupe People Into Donating Way More Than Intended | Last week the NY Times had an incredible article about how the Trump campaign tricked donors into giving way more money than they meant to, using so-called "dark patterns" (i.e., tricky UI design and wording) that got many people ... |
| Apr 8, 2021 | Republicans Using Incredibly Sketchy And Manipulative 'Dark Patterns' To Dupe People Into Donating Way More Than Intended | Last week the NY Times had an incredible article about how the Trump campaign tricked donors into giving way more money than they meant to, using so-called “dark patterns” (i.e., tricky UI design and wording) that got many people to think t... |
| Feb 6, 2021 | From the election lie to GameStop: How to stop social media algorithms from hurting us | Misinformation, outright lies, conspiracy theories, and fringe movements have always had real-world consequences. Fascists in Italy and Germany, once a small band of pariahs and gadflies who sported funny looking hats and mustaches, managed... |
| Feb 6, 2021 | From the election lie to GameStop: How to stop social media algorithms from hurting us | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Misinformation, outright lies, conspiracy theorie... |
| Jan 17, 2021 | Former Rep. Mickey Edwards says he’s leaving the GOP because it has ‘become a cult’ under Trump: ‘It’s no longer a political party’ | Former Rep. Mickey Edwards of Oklahoma, right, with NBC journalist Chuck Todd. Riccardo S. Savi/WireImage
Former Rep. Mickey Edwards of Oklahoma, known as a stalwart conservative during his days on Capitol Hill, said on Thursday that he is ... |
| Dec 3, 2020 | Republicans know Trump’s attempt to overturn the election is dangerous, but they’re too cowardly to fight it | A protester in front of the Oregon State Capitol during a Stop the Steal rally on November 7 in Salem, Oregon. Nathan Howard/Getty Images
President Donald Trump’s fake voter-fraud allegations continue to get laughed out of court, and his ad... |
| Dec 1, 2020 | Utter Insanity: Trump Lawyer Suggests Former Trump Cybersecurity Official Should Be 'Taken Out And Shot' For Saying The Election Was Secure | Every day that I think I can't be shocked and horrified by anything being done in the name of politics today, I end up being more shocked and more horrified. The latest is that one of the President's campaign lawyers, Joe diGenova, who has ... |
| Dec 1, 2020 | Utter Insanity: Trump Lawyer Suggests Former Trump Cybersecurity Official Should Be 'Taken Out And Shot' For Saying The Election Was Secure | Every day that I think I can’t be shocked and horrified by anything being done in the name of politics today, I end up being more shocked and more horrified. The latest is that one of the President’s campaign lawyers, Joe diGenova, who has ... |
| Nov 11, 2020 | How Hard Is It to Overturn an American Election? | And so it has come to this: The president of the United States is trying to overturn the results of a national election he unambiguously lost with a combination of petulant whining, spiteful and flailing executive action, and magic.
No, it’... |
| Nov 2, 2020 | The real Trump Derangement Syndrome is ‘Orange Man Good’ | President Donald Trump on October 21 in Gastonia, North Carolina. Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Trump supporters reflexively insist President Donald Trump’s critics have “Trump Derangement Syndrome” and that their only argument ... |
| Sep 11, 2020 | The 9/11 Commission Report, the Pandemic and the Future of Homeland Security | Lawfare has from time to time allowed me, as a longtime contributor, to use this space to acknowledge the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and reflect on some aspect of the 9/11 Commission Report, the definitive account... |
| Apr 28, 2020 | Sean Hannity Hires Charles Harder To Threaten The NY Times And Its Reporters, Because Of Course He Does | Last month, Kara Swisher wrote an opinion piece for the NY Times ripping Sean Hannity and Fox News to shreds for convincing her mother that COVID-19 wasn't going to be too bad back in February and leading into March. It's notable how she st... |
| Apr 28, 2020 | Sean Hannity Hires Charles Harder To Threaten The NY Times And Its Reporters, Because Of Course He Does | Last month, Kara Swisher wrote an opinion piece for the NY Times ripping Sean Hannity and Fox News to shreds for convincing her mother that COVID-19 wasn’t going to be too bad back in February and leading into March. It’s notable how she st... |
| Feb 4, 2020 | The Incomprehensibly Weak Case for Acquittal Without Witnesses | The 1992 Robert Altman movie “The Player” has a scene in which movie studio executives are sitting around complaining about the cost of acquiring scripts from outside screenwriters and one of them proposes having the studio generate its own... |
| Aug 12, 2019 | What If the House Held Impeachment Proceedings and Nobody Noticed? | Is the country in the midst of an impeachment process or not?
The answer should be simple. But congressional Democrats have muddled through subpoenas and hearings and press conferences for more than three months since Robert Mueller deliver... |
| May 27, 2019 | When Presidents Intervene on Behalf of War Criminals | President Trump is reportedly considering ordering leniency for several U.S. service members accused or convicted of war crimes. The New York Times reports that Trump has asked the Department of Justice to prepare pardon materials for Speci... |
| 5 reasons Democrats should be worried about 2022 after their devastating losses in Virginia | Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin of Virginia tossing a signed basketball to supporters at an election-night party in Chantilly, Virginia, early Wednesday. AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
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| Trump and his allies have embraced, promoted and counseled Kyle Rittenhouse since his acquittal | Some prominent conservatives have worked to make a hero out of Kyle Rittenhouse, 18, who was acquitted a week ago of homicide in deadly shootings during protests last year in Wisconsin.
Since a jury found him not guilty, Rittenhouse has met... |