What You Missed by Not Watching Trump Last Night
While you whiled away the hours (nearly two of them), I did my journalistic duty.
How Many Judges Does It Take to Sort Out Missouri?
The legal miasma promises to set the tone for the rest of the country’s midterm legal dramas.
Left Anchor: The Odyssey, Reviewed
A speaker of Homeric Greek weighs in on Christopher Nolan’s film.
The Post-Trump Republican to Watch (and Watch Out For)
Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley suggests a future lane for the GOP that is drastically different from other Republican presidential contenders.
Building Power, One Person at a Time
Progressive political candidates in 2026 are doing more than just trying to win an election.
Elon Musk’s Lawyer Seeks Seat in Congress
Entering Congress would give someone at the nexus of Musk, AI’s growing ubiquity in commerce and warfare, and global MAGA…
The Legacy of 9/11: A Surveillance Society
One of the little-noticed consequences of the post-9/11 hysteria has been a diabolical symbiosis between government surveillance and corporate surveillance.
‘Shoot Him!’: Police Threaten Third-Country Nationals Imprisoned in African Hotel
A police officer aimed a loaded assault rifle at unarmed immigrants expelled to Equatorial Guinea by the Trump administration in…
What Voter Suppression Looks Like in Practice
Poll observers in Tennessee recorded dozens of incident reports in their primary, a few months before this year’s highly contested…
Cattle Ranchers Have a Beef With Trump
The tariff-free importation of 300,000 metric tons of potentially substandard beef crashed cattle markets. Trump’s makeup plans to placate ranchers…