Politics, Corruption & Criminality

Taraji P. Henson did more to publicize Project 2025 than anyone prior to her BET Awards appearance. She performed a vital public service because everyone needs to know what Trump has in store for us.

New College president Corcoran used the Elmer Fudd approach to problems: “Be vewwwy vewwwy quiet.” Right after the students left campus for the summer, machines rumbled in began knocking trees down like so many bowling pins.

MAGA activists are relying on a constellation of dark money-backed software programs to generate thousands of voter challenges.

Economic boycotts by Black residents in Southern cities such as Birmingham and Nashville, Tennessee, played crucial roles during the civil rights era.

I got on to God and said, OK, sure, don’t commit adultery, but shouldn’t there be some amendments, like what if your wife just had a baby, and some hot porn star who looks like your very voluptuous daughter is ready and willing?

There’s plenty of bad or misleading information about elections out there, but an impending Supreme Court ruling may determine the limits of government’s power to contain these falsehoods online.

Many journalists and political scientists view populism as a “cultural backlash” of conservative white men who fear the loss of their privilege in a diversifying world.

Even as conversations focus on Project 2025 and Trump's promise to become a dictator, it's important to revisit how poorly he ran things as a cure to the public's apparent Trumpnesia.

Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. ProPublica is releasing a new database that will allow journalists, researchers and others to more easily search these organizations’ finances.

The decisions came despite the Judicial Standards Commission’s recommendations to publicly reprimand the judges, and these are likely the only times in more than a decade in which the court didn’t follow the commission’s guidance.

Georgia state leaders have compromised the safeguards that protected the integrity of the vote in 2020.

As allegations against Trump mount and the costs of defense rise, his campaign and political committees have quickly ramped up legal spending—and fundraising efforts to cover those expenses.

No matter how hard Republicans try to reinvent the Founders and Framers in the image of their libertarian billionaire patrons, the reality is that America was history’s first great liberal experiment.

Armed groups in Arizona and Texas are collaborating with and courting police and immigration agents—with alarming results.

Kari Lake's unceasing efforts to overturn her 2022 election loss are as unabated as Donald Trump and his complaints about losing in 2020. And seem to be just as destructive to attorneys.

The Rice’s whale is the only one that lives entirely in the Gulf of Mexico—a species definitely endangered. And Matt Gaetz wants Congress to OK the military bombing the heck out of them.