There is no circumstance under which Hegseth’s order is legal, and no world where it is remotely moral.
Mark Sumner
He's not just a technofascist seeking to build an AI-fueled authoritarian surveillance state. He's also an absolutely bonkers pseudo-religious nutcase who views everyone who stands in his way as an agent of ... Satan. And that includes the Pope.
We’re not just courting disaster, we’re begging for it.
The House votes to release the Epstein files, but Trump hasn't slowed down in his support to sex traffickers or his disdain for women.
Worse than photos of Trump cavorting with topless underage girls? Trump already bragged about doing exactly that with the Miss Teen USA contestants.
Republicans may scream “Marxist,” pundits may faint at the thought of actually doing something new, but the truth is that progressive ideas are extremely popular with Americans, and not just in blue cities.
Trump says he wants to restart U.S. tests because other nations are testing. They're not.
SpaceX is way behind schedule in delivering a lunar lander, and their $1.15B NASA contract may be at risk.
The President of the United States exists in a dream world, where he regularly declares things that are not just untrue, but ridiculous. This is patently obvious to the most casual observer … so long as that observer doesn't work for a billionaire-owned media outlet.
So long as the federal government was defending the human rights of all people, Republicans hid behind their states' rights cloak. When the federal government went to work attacking people of color, Republicans flat-out begged to be federalized.
In a police state, political power, policing authority, and military action have no clear boundaries.
Hegseth is paranoid. Trump is delusional. The military ... is in a very tight spot.
Research shows that generative AI will only get better at lying.
Colbert and Kimmel were some of the loudest voices in America. They spoke nightly to audiences that numbered in the millions. And they are being silenced. Just. Like. That.
He does not deserve the carefully edited love he is receiving in the media. He absolutely did not deserve the lowering of flags in several states. The idea that he might lie in state in the Capitol rotunda is an abomination.
Trump's "rebrand" of the Defense Department was just one of many stories that make it clear that the Committee should think seriously about handing Trump the peace prize before he decides to bomb Stockholm.
The fascist wave is breaking against a humble collection of quiet heroes: The women and men who have answered the call for that most thankless of civic responsibilities, jury duty.
Kennedy isn't ending lives by accident. All of his actions come from the deep-seated belief that Americans deserve to be sick.
Trump was handed an economy in which unemployment was at record lows, inflation was under control, and economic growth was at an ideal level. Now it's all gone.
It's Paxton who's the party’s real North Star, and their patron saint of perfidy.