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“You do not want to give money to women," declared one leader of the movement to make more babies
"Eugenics is the Rosetta Stone for so much of Trump’s agenda"
Musk's illegal government takeover is scary on its own — but the people he's bringing along make it even worse
Trump forgets the lesson of Moms for Liberty and orders schools to replace education with right-wing propaganda
"I will not be pushed out by two billionaire trust fund babies"
Kennedy's plan to "make America healthy": Replace real medical care with robots and lectures about diet
Christian nationalists behind the spending shutdown aim to punish everyone, not just imaginary Marxists
Our felonious president can only benefit from a climate of fear and chaos — that's why he's eager for more
RFK's hearing hasn't even started yet and the White House has already attacked vaccines, birth control and the WHO
Executive orders attacking DEI are about promoting unqualified white men over diverse candidates
As Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said to defenders of Musk's provocation, "People can officially stop listening to you"
Forget "unity" — the real theme of the day was "rich people swindling the rest of America"
Trump's sudden love of TikTok shows he needs disinfo more than he hates China
Mark Zuckerberg wants "masculine energy" and "aggression" at the office — sounds like a toxic workplace
MAGA "populism" was always an inch deep — Trump's billionaire-palooza proves it
Hegseth's excuses for his misogyny contradict each other, but MAGA doesn't care
Jesse Watters implied women are too stupid to run fire departments — most LA fire department leaders are men
Evangelicals loved Jimmy Carter — until his anti-racism turned them against him
In part because of his goofy appearance and in part because he doesn't engage in fascist trolling like fellow billionaire Elon Musk, Mark...
One cannot say for certain that Rep. Mike Johnson was deliberately lying during his acceptance speech to return as Speaker of the House. He read...
As I noted in passing last week, the striking thing about the life of Shamsud-Din Jabbar is how much it reads like the boilerplate biography of any...
In the hours after a mass murderer killed 10 people in New Orleans with a combination car and gun attack only hours into the new year, there was...
Abortion bans don't just kill women. They kill babies. This is evident in the data, which shows a dramatic rise in the state's infant mortality...
In the press, the intra-MAGA spat pitting wealthy tech bros Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy against the larger MAGA masses has been framed primarily...
Donald Trump isn't in office yet but his fans are already getting excited about hurting and stealing from people of color. Last week, Mother Jones...
Fellas, is it gay to give your wife an orgasm? More than five decades after the publication of "The Joy of Sex," one would think this was a settled...
In the face of Vice President Kamala Harris losing the presidential election to Donald Trump, the punditry's focus has been almost exclusively on...
The more Donald Trump denies he's being controlled by billionaire Elon Musk, who purchased the president-elect with over $250 million in campaign...
Early last week, Democrats seemed to be hitting new lows in the post-election slump. Progressives were especially demoralized by the failure to...
Let's get one thing out of the way: Robert F. Kennedy's claim that he wants to "make America healthy again" is, like most things he says, a...
I was already glad about the upcoming TikTok ban, but now I have one more reason to be happy about it: the site's minitrend of women "pranking"...
"People are saying if you have a conservative family member, don't invite them to Thanksgiving or Christmas. Like, stay away from them," TikToker...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sure is lucky in his timing. The former Democrat turned MAGA conspiracy theorist has a series of meetings with Senate...
Far-right pastor Lance Wallnau is incredibly upset over the burgeoning controversies regarding Donald Trump's nominee for Defense Secretary, Pete...
While this was never explicitly stated, one of Donald Trump's most obvious campaign promises to his mostly-male fan base was that he could bring...
Shortly after Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, he announced, with great fanfare, that billionaire Elon Musk and professional troll...
Even by the reality-TV chaos standards of our political moment, this one was a doozy: Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Department...
After the Supreme Court ended federal abortion rights in 2022, there was a robust debate between pro- and anti-choice activists over whether or not...
If it wasn't for the American addiction to disinformation, Vice President Kamala Harris would have won the 2024 election. There's a lot of...
It's not a coincidence that Donald Trump's nominee for Education Secretary, Linda McMahon, is the defendant in a lawsuit alleging that she ignored...
Donald Trump isn't even in the White House yet, and already he's failing. Matt Gaetz, the trolliest of Trump's "Legion of Doom" Cabinet appointees,...
First things first: It is absolutely the case that the harassment of Sarah McBride, the newly elected Democratic representative from Delaware, is...
It seems unshakeable, the Beltway press's faith that Christian conservatives mean all that jibber-jabber about sexual morality. On Sunday, CNN's...
Having endured Donald Trump in their faces for nearly a decade now, one would think more Republicans would understand better the man they've kept...
In these dark times, it's more important than ever to nurse tendrils of joy. So it is a great pleasure to watch all the Republican leaders who...
When considering the reasons why Donald Trump picked a Fox News blowhard to run the near-trillion-dollar U.S. military, it's important to remember...
It is not women's responsibility to use sex to cajole men into sucking less. First of all: Gross. Second of all, there's no evidence that sexual...
In the wake of Donald Trump's devastating win last week, Democrats have fallen back on an old habit and are now trying to coax better behavior out...
Perhaps out of fear of insulting their audiences, the pundits, journalists, and political consultants engaged in the lengthy post-mortem about...
For days and weeks to come, there will be endless analyses of how Donald Trump, a convicted criminal who fomented an insurrection and was found...