On October 9, Newsmax commentator and conspiracy theorist Katie Zacharia was plucked from obscurity and named White House press secretary. One week later, she was unceremoniously dumped after one ...

Steven Levitsky, old friend of the newsletter and author of “How Democracies Die,” recently argued that the US has “crossed ...

One of the peculiarities of being an American is the widespread national conviction that America is the best at everything.

Paxton only defeated incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in the GOP primary because of President Trump’s support — yet Trump can ...

On August 8, 2022, after more than a year of trying to cajole Donald Trump into voluntarily returning government property he’d stolen, FBI agents executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago at a time when ...

The man scheduled to be executed on December 3 is Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in a horrific mass shooting ...

The state breaks out crime data by race, but not by national origin. Late last year, GOP Rep. Tom Emmer, who has joined Trump ...

Thanks for reading, and here’s to the next five years. You never want to count your Senate seats before they’re hatched, but if the polls are anything close to correct, Democrats have a shot at ...