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Michael TomaskyThe Daily Beast |
I started reading the Democratic autopsy of their 2024 loss that was belatedly released Thursday, but I stopped on page eight, when I got to this...
Will 2026 finally be the year when a critical mass of Americans wakes up and realizes that Republicans always screw up the economy? I doubt it. The...
Donald Trump says China agreed to buy 200 jets from Boeing. He crowed about it on Fox News Thursday night. But funny thing: A spokesman for China’s...
There are a lot of things wrong with today’s Republican Party. They lie. They lie about how much they lie. They have handed their party and our...
The self-pity of some people knows no bounds. Steven Roth, the CEO of Vornado Realty Trust, said this week that the phrase “tax the rich” is hate...
The House Progressive Caucus released its affordability agenda last week. Ever since Zohran Mamdani rode the multisyllabic a-word to his surprise...
If Chief Justice John Roberts has uttered two quotable sentences in his career that will likely appear high up in his New York Times obituary, they...
History should bother to record the dark irony that the apparent third (or fourth, or maybe fifth) assassination attempt against Donald Trump came at...
As we barrel toward the ninth week of this two- or three-week war, virtually all of the reporting and most of the commentary is focused on the...
Last Friday morning, Axios published a scoop about the Trump administration’s negotiations with Iran. The administration, according to four sources,...
The Great Sphinx of Giza stands 66 feet tall. The Leaning Tower of Pisa is around 180 feet. Paris’s Arc de Triomphe, 164 feet. The Sydney Opera...
I started hearing the swirling Eric Swalwell rumors a couple of weeks ago. There were stories coming, and they were going to be bad. Well they came,...
Hey, Donald Trump, you just launched a war that you’re losing, that’s costing you millions of supporters, that’s tanking your standing among...
The presidency of Donald Trump is now officially in collapse. His war is … not exactly a disaster, but it sure isn’t the cakewalk he envisioned...
Donald Trump—juggling a war that shows more signs every week of dragging on far longer than he imagined, a nation of enraged air travelers, and a...
In every age, there are moments large and small that somehow manage to capture the regnant ideology in all its proud and decadent vulgarity. You know...
Now the latest in the Iran war is that the Pentagon may deploy about 3,000 members of the legendary 82nd Airborne to Kharg Island. Or it might be...
Iran, according to reports, has around 500 power plants. The vast majority run on natural gas, though a fairly impressive number are solar. Only one...
I don’t understand why everyone is so upset about Donald Trump’s invocation of Pearl Harbor during his tête-à-tête with Japanese Prime Minister...
Something is happening this Thursday that, during normal times, Americans wouldn’t need to pay a lick of attention to. Freedom House, the esteemed,...
You’ve surely seen or read about the video the White House put out last week that interspersed bombing footage from Iran with punishing hits from...
At some point, early Wednesday morning, the cost of the Iran War will top $10 billion. The Center for Strategic and International Studies released a...
We could all breathe a sigh of relief if Donald Trump had fired Kristi Noem for the right reasons. If, for example, Trump had determined that a...
The MAGA faithful, well-schooled over the years in spotting what they believe to be instances of liberal “hypocrisy,” have taken to the interwebs...
My cell phone rang at 3 a.m. I looked down to see that it was my wife’s Aunt Jan calling. She lives on the West Coast and is a bit of a night owl. I...
Back in 2024, Kamala Harris and the Democrats struggled to convince voters that a second Donald Trump term would constitute a serious threat to...
This Tuesday night, America will bear witness to Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address of his second term. I know—the mere thought of it...
At moments of massive social breakdown, when we are in the process of discovering to our horror that something evil has been going on in our society...
It seems genteel and quaint today, compared to what we’re living through now, but at the time, to a lot of people, the Reagan revolution was...
What did Donald Trump mean last Friday when he wrote on Truth Social that “There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by...
During and right after Pam Bondi’s House testimony Wednesday, I flipped on Fox News and Newsmax to see how they were covering it. I was expecting to...
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