In May of 2024 a Manhattan jury convicted Donald Trump on thirty-four felony counts, the first president in American history to be convicted of anything. Fourteen months later he was inaugurated for a second term, having lost neither the primary he needed nor the general he wanted. The verdict cost
Ask a MAGA voter whether they would stick with a Republican candidate accused of domestic violence, and 72 percent say yes. Ask a Harris voter the same question about a Democrat, and the number drops to 39 percent. Across every scandal POLITICO tested this July — a DUI, lobbyist gifts, sexual
Brendan Carr said the quiet part out loud, then said it again. After ABC reinstated Jimmy Kimmel this fall, the FCC chairman promised "we're not done yet." He told an interviewer to expect "a massive shift in dynamics in the media ecosystem," one that
Picture the folding chairs and the ballcaps, the county fairground bleachers half in shade, a candidate under fire taking the podium anyway. The allegation doesn't matter for this exercise — DUI, lobbyist money, something worse. What matters is the crowd doesn't flinch. They came for the man,
On May 29 this year, on the grounds of the Edventure Children's Museum in Columbia, Jim Clyburn held his fish fry, as he has most years since 1992. Ro Khanna stood on one side of him. Andy Beshear stood on the other. Both men understood exactly what they
On February 24, 2024, the line outside the W.L. Stephens Aquatic Center in Charleston smelled like chlorine and coffee, folding tables set up between the pool deck and the parking lot, poll workers checking names against a roll that didn't ask which party you belonged to, because
On Friday, July 24, the Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws Committee did something that would have seemed impossible a decade ago. It handed the opening slot of the 2028 calendar, January 22, to South Carolina outright, stacked Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Michigan and Virginia behind it
At just past nine on the night of February 3, 2020, Pete Buttigieg stood in a hotel ballroom in Des Moines and told a cheering room that "by all indications, we are going on to New Hampshire victorious." No results existed yet. Precinct captains across Iowa were still
The Social Security Trustees filed their report on June 18th this year, as the law requires them to every spring, and the number that mattered was buried on page 4: the combined trust funds are projected to be exhausted in 2033, seven years from now, at which point benefits face
On Friday, in a committee room that will not appear in anyone's campaign memoir, the Democratic National Committee's rules panel recommended that South Carolina vote first in the 2028 presidential primary, on January 22, ahead of Nevada and New Hampshire. New Mexico, Michigan and Virginia were
The letter went out at the end of June, on Department of Education stationery, to roughly seven million borrowers enrolled in a repayment plan called SAVE. It gave them ninety days to pick something else. SAVE was itself only a few years old, built by executive rule under the Biden
On July 21, Arizona Republicans nominated three men to the three offices that sit closest to the machinery of a contested election: Andy Biggs for governor, Warren Petersen for attorney general, Alexander Kolodin for secretary of state. Each had a documented hand in the effort to reverse the state'