The chairman of the House Oversight Committee keeps his audience engaged by hyping every part of his Biden family probe, including when there’s nothing to hype.
Author: Philip Bump
The problem with Ron DeSantis’s efforts to claim northeast Ohio
The Florida governor’s family roots in the region are a new focus of attention. It may not do him much good.
The belated GOP effort to defend Trump’s hush-money payment on the merits
It’s proving much easier to decry potential charges against Donald Trump as politically motivated than as unwarranted.
What it means to be ‘Soros-backed’
A look at an ascendant pejorative on the right.
Accountability for elected officials is a common feature of democracy
Efforts to cast an investigation of Donald Trump as the domain of banana republics ignore the reality in other Western democracies.
Trump’s brute-force strategy to make his indictment threat universal
The former president once again insists that the real targets are all right-leaning Americans — especially White ones.
The election-fraud crew loves polls now
A poll from the right-wing company Rasmussen Reports uses sketchy weighting to suggest that Kari Lake won an election she lost.
For no reason at all, here’s how inflation has affected alcohol prices
An examination of one facet of inflation unrelated to anything else happening today.
Trump escalates his white nationalist doomerism
The former president now suggests that he is the last line of defense against the entire collapse of Western civilization.
Jewish partisanship sits with the party sympathetic to Palestinians
New polling from Gallup shows a shift in favor of Palestinians among Democrats.