A Whole-of-Government Response to One Joke
On October 24, a former president compared a gilded White House to a restaurant. By October 31, the sitting president, the Treasury Secretary, a cable news crew, and the right-wing blogosphere had dec…
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Trump's DOJ Has Found Exactly 28 Fraud Cases
The most aggressive election crackdown in American history has produced exactly 28 suspects, 0.0001 percent of one state's voters, and a president who admits he ordered it. "I'm the one that said do i…
The Hands That Load the War Machine Just Stopped
For three years, the war in Gaza has run on the world's most overlooked workforce. On Friday, they clocked out. "Our hands get covered in grease and sweat every day. We refuse to let them be stained w…
You'll See Iran in a Couple of Weeks
The Pentagon declared the Iran war over on July 7. The White House is now scheduling the next one for the week after the midterms, and the households footing the $1,100 fuel bill get to vote in betwee…
AI's Money Machine Just Quit on the Midterms
The AI industry spent $50 million trying to buy the midterms, then quietly walked out of the general elections because it finally noticed its own product was the scandal. "Something's clearly not work…
The Midterms Are for Sale. Musk Paid First.
Four days before the midterms, corporations have already spent $737 million to buy them, and the only lever left is one line on a Montana ballot. "They are spending to buy influence, determine outcome…
Where Trump Goes, Impeachment Follows
The party that removed the president twice cannot bring itself to say the word, and the man it impeached has turned his opponents' process into a campaign threat. "I mean, honestly, if we wanted to pl…
Maine Trained Its Cops to Keep Trump's Feds Out
One week before the midterms, the Justice Department is sending 1,000 federal observers to polling places, and the state of Maine has responded the only way it knows how: by printing the federal statu…
The Off Switch Nobody Will Flip
An 80-year-old commander in chief could not say the name of the man he was campaigning for, and the Constitution's emergency off switch has entered the conversation for the third time this year. "They…