I Hope I'm Wrong But We Seem To Be Watching The Death of American Democracy In a birthday greeting today, my old elementary school friend...

The Spoils System Strikes Back— The Rise Of Autocracy According the the new Economist poll by YouGov 43% of registered voters approve...

More On The GOP War Against The LGBTQ+ Community Nancy Ohanian captures Trump's war against America Joey McFadden’s Daily Beast piece,...

“On Monday,” wrote Judd Legum and Rebecca Crosby, “the Trump administration issued an extraordinary memo  ordering federal agencies to...

Let's Stop Pretending His Cabinet Picks Are Normal There are a handful of Senate Democrats who continue giving Trump’s nominees the...

The Republicans’ Marxist Smear Campaign Is Nothing More Than A Coward’s Playbook Less dependable to stand up to Trump than Lisa...

The Real Mr. Anti-Woke Would you feel uncomfortable if someone were too tell you they are part of the neo-reactionary movement and “the...

Roy Cooper, Phil Berger, Tim Moore When I was looking or information for this post about the GOP power grab in North Carolina this week—...

Worst President In History, Part 34 On Tuesday, Ari Melber had former Fox anchor and Trump ally Geraldo Rivera on his MSNBC show , where...

Writing for The Bulwark  last week, Jill Lawrence noted that “[Y]ou can’t take it for granted that most voters remember their high...

Writing for The Atlantic  yesterday, Renée DiResta noted that Twitter’s flood of conspiracy theories now define reality for the far right...

Orwell’s Nightmare— Rebooted By Vance, Thiel And Curtis Yarvin Monday, on Twitter, CNN anchors Kaitlin Collins and Jim Sciutto went back...

Yes, But In Some States— Like Florida & Texas— More Than Others In 2008, Obama took winning Florida’s 27 electoral votes very seriously....

Messy, Noisy GOP Civil War On The Far Right Fringes Over the weekend, Drew Harwell reported that some of the internet’s most influential...

Also Political Violence— Reminiscent Of 1930s Italy And Germany This is objectively, provably true: far right extremism poses an...

Patrick Svitek, who works for the Washington Post now, covered politics for the Texas Tribune for the last decade; he knows what the...

Can you feel the anger emanating from college campuses. If the Supreme Court agrees that a president— or at least one named Trump— is...

BONUS: Washington State GOP Declares War On Democracy Late Thursday, the Arizona Republic reported that the state’s attorney general,...

Bonus: Hungary-- Always On The Wrong Side Of History The white flag the Russo-Republicans in the House have been carrying around the...

Risk Assessment 2024 The Eurasia Group is a political risk consultancy, started by Ian Bremmer in 1998. Their annual risk assessment...