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Four years ago, Donald Trump asked Republicans to make a deal with the devil. It took some longer than others, but most eventually came around, normalizing and enabling and often outright participating in the depraved horror show of his presidency all in exchange for tax cuts, some judges, and, perhaps most importantly, access to his enthusiastic base. The pact must have seemed worthwhile for a time, especially for a party whose objections to Trump tended to be more stylistic than substantive....

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Donald Trump and his allies have kept busy the past six weeks spreading lies and conspiracy theories about the presidential election he lost—but not too busy to also push misinformation about the fast-approaching runoff elections in Georgia. New research reported by the New York Times on Tuesday has found that a small group of disinformation “superspreaders” have trained their sights on the Peach State ahead of its high-s...

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Donald Trump’s fight to overthrow the government has grown increasingly lonely since the electoral college made his loss to Joe Biden official. William Barr is moving out, and some of his more ambitious enablers are hoping to move up to lead the party in 2024. Angry and alone in the White House, Trump is getting more and more desperate. And as he fumes at McConnell, Mike Pence, Mark Meadows, and anyone else deemed too “w...

At the nadir of his 1990 debt crisis, Donald Trump bunkered himself inside Trump Tower for days on end, subsisting on a steady diet of hamburgers and French fries. As his real estate empire was collapsing, and his first marriage unraveling, Trump simply refused to accept the reality that his life was in a tailspin. “Do people really think I am in trouble?” Trump asked Vanity Fair’s Marie Brenner at the time, to which she replied, “Yes, they think you’re finished.â€�...

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Joe Biden has promised to make combating climate change a major focus of his administration, vowing not just to undo the messes Donald Trump made of environmental policy over the last four years, but to make real progress. In a gesture of that commitment, one of the first administration appointments he unveiled was John Kerry, who will serve as his climate envoy—a new position that will likely play a role in seeking to es...

Vladimir Putin congratulated President-elect Joe Biden on his victory Tuesday, more than a month after many other foreign leaders did the same, a delayed but significant bow to reality given his famously warm rapport with Donald Trump. "For my part, I am ready for cooperation and contacts with you,” the Russian president said to Biden, according to CNN, one day after the Electoral College officially certified Biden’s win. After major U.S. news organizations called the race for Biden...

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. After a year in which race and policing has taken center stage alongside the COVID-19 pandemic, the demands for accountability and a reimagining of what public safety can look like have also made their way into the mainstream discourse. Progressive Democrats have called to “defund the police”—a slogan that has rankled some center-leaning Democrats, who argue that it’s too divisive a phrase to highlight the ki...