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'Your emergency is not my crisis': Why men are abandoning the fight against Trump

'Your emergency is not my crisis': Why men are abandoning the fight against Trump

Anti-Trump activist groups across the country are facing an uncomfortable reality: the resistance to authoritarianism is overwhelmingly female, and organizers are

Inside the Democratic Party's leadership crisis: 'It's not enough just to complain'

Inside the Democratic Party's leadership crisis: 'It's not enough just to complain'

Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton ripped into his own party this week, declaring that Democrats have surrendered the role of leadership and become little more

Trump is playing his would-be successors like fiddles: NYT analysis

Trump is playing his would-be successors like fiddles: NYT analysis

President Donald Trump is reportedly cultivating tension between two of his top officials, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, as he tantalizes

A Mother's Day reckoning on violence and survival

A Mother's Day reckoning on violence and survival

Subhed: Evergreen, because over 100 years later, the personal is somehow still politicalMy mom died from Covid in 2020, just after Mother’s Day. I couldn’t write

A sign of how petrified the White House is as Trump flails

A sign of how petrified the White House is as Trump flails

In the middle of the most unpopular war in over 75 years—one that has created a political disaster for the Trump administration—the White House had to use the precious

Supreme Court exposed for ruling built on cooked data from Trump administration

Supreme Court exposed for ruling built on cooked data from Trump administration

Here's what happened this week.— While the FAA was collapsing, the Transportation Secretary was filming a reality show. Former B-lister reality TV and Fox star

Inside Trump's state by state plan to control elections: investigation

Inside Trump's state by state plan to control elections: investigation

A new investigation by Reuters details how the Trump administration is seeking to gain federal control over elections in at least eight states, employing investigations

'I'm not flighty': Amy Coney Barrett pushes back on new characterization

'I'm not flighty': Amy Coney Barrett pushes back on new characterization

Justice Amy Coney Barrett rejected the idea of being a swing vote on the U.S. Supreme Court during an appearance in Arkansas on Saturday, despite cases where she

MAGA pastor says Trump has 'better understanding' of Bible than the Pope

MAGA pastor says Trump has 'better understanding' of Bible than the Pope

It’s been a strange year for presidential-papal relations as the Trump administration has spent the past several months antagonizing the Pope. Now in the latest

Trump’s DC plan will convert miles of popular riverfront park to 'exclusive' golf course

Trump’s DC plan will convert miles of popular riverfront park to 'exclusive' golf course

Along the banks of the Washington Channel in the nation’s capital sits the East Potomac Park, a popular green space offering 330 acres of open fields, picnic grounds