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Moira DoneganThe Guardian |
You can’t say it was a fluke. If in 2016, Donald Trump’s novelty, combined with his loss of the popular vote, allowed liberals to retain a bit of...
Abortion rights initiatives were on the ballot in 10 states on Tuesday, and won in seven of them. One of the losers was prop 4, Florida’s abortion...
Today is a day of despair, and it would be futile to tell those who fear and grieve for what is to come in America that they will be OK. It would also...
There’s one story of the 2024 presidential contest that says that this election is all about men, and their anger. Men, in this account, have gotten...
Does sexual assault matter politically? Eight years ago, in October of 2016, many people thought that it did. When the Access Hollywood tape was...
If you didn’t know any better, you might think, from recent media coverage, that the problem with Donald Trump’s proposal to round up and expel as...
In an appearance this week on the daytime talkshow The View, Kamala Harris was asked how her presidency would differ from Joe Biden’s. “There is...
Maybe it was always obvious that the whole thing was a sham. Back in 2018, when Christine Blasey Ford, Deborah Ramirez, and others accused then...
Who, exactly, could be an undecided voter in 2024? It’s not as if the candidates do not draw a sufficient contrast. There can be few people alive...
Just how stupid does Melania Trump think we are? On Wednesday, my colleagues at the Guardian published a leaked excerpt of the former first lady’s...
Maybe he thought the pink tie could help. JD Vance, the Ohio senator and Donald Trump’s running mate, clearly set out to make himself seem less...
The public got a peek into the inner workings of the Trump campaign last week, when the independent journalist Ken Klippenstein did what major news...
Anyone who is not a moralist or kidding themselves will admit that a good piece of gossip is one of life’s greatest pleasures. Gossip exposes the...
Introducing Donald Trump is a strange occasion to talk about humility. To put it mildly, humility is not a quality that the former president is known...
There are other names, but this is the one we know: Amber Thurman has become the first woman whose death was preventable in relation to an abortion...
Does it even matter that the Haitian immigrants who have flocked to Springfield, Ohio, are in the country legally? Does it matter that Springfield,...
It is not a good sign for US politics that an apparent second assassination attempt against the former president and current Republican nominee,...
The bar was set low for him, but Donald Trump still didn’t manage to clear it. The former president has faced growing concerns from within his party...
How much of an incentive does Kamala Harris really have to lay out a thorough policy agenda? With fewer than 70 days until the general election, the...
One of the grim lessons of the #MeToo movement and its long backlash is this: whether someone finds a sexual abuse allegation credible largely depends...
She spoke loudly and with confidence, gesticulated broadly, and returned, several times over the course of her seven-minute remarks, to the struggles...
“Historically, the vice-president, in terms of the election, does not have any impact,” Donald Trump told the National Association of Black...
In some ways, there’s something enviable about Joe Biden’s position. As a lame duck, he now retains all the official powers of the presidency, but...
“It’s possible,” writes Jessica Winter in the New Yorker, “that if JD Vance had his way, citizenship in the United States would be conferred...
When he was still the nominee, Joe Biden’s preferred euphemism for abortion was “Roe”. He would talk about “upholding” Roe v Wade even after...
The best time for Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race would have been several weeks ago, in the panicked days after his disastrous debate...
How many faces does JD Vance have? For one thing, he looks a lot different these days. Around the time the election denier first ran for Senate in...
Donald Trump stole thousands of classified documents when he left the White House in 2021, according to prosecutors, and shoved them in unsecured...
The apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump, evidently carried out by a lone shooter at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, killed one...
The supreme court is a messy institution. It’s six conservative justices are mired in infighting over both the pace of their shared ideological...
The Biden campaign is probably hoping that you did not watch the first presidential debate. Over the course of 90 minutes in Atlanta, the president...
Did you know you could give your local government officials tips when they do things you like? Brett Kavanaugh thinks you can. In fact, if you’re...
In the late 18th century, when the constitution was ratified, men’s abuse of women was penalized by neither custom nor by the law. Men were allowed...
The first of many lies at the center of Moore v United States, the major tax case that the supreme court decided on Thursday, was that the issue at...
On Thursday, the US supreme court unanimously ruled that the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine – a sock-puppet group of fanatically anti-choice...
The former president of the United States, and the presumptive Republican nominee in the 2024 presidential election, is now a convicted felon 34 times...
This week, Louisiana moved to expand the criminalization of abortion further than any state has since before Roe v Wade was decided. On Thursday, the...
If you didn’t know what was really going on at US college campuses, the congressional hearing on Thursday – in which the presidents of...
If you haven’t seen the video yet, please trust me that you don’t need to watch it. Last week, CNN released surveillance footage of an attack by...
Joe Biden’s re-election team is playing it cool. The Biden campaign has long been shrugging at the president’s fading polls, turning down...
These people can’t help themselves. Last week, the New York Times revealed that during the days after the violent attack on the Capitol on 6 January...
He seems to have understood it as a business deal. That’s what Stormy Daniels – the former porn star whose account of a sexual encounter with...
A Woman’s Choice, an abortion clinic in Jacksonville, usually sees somewhere between 10 and 15 patients a day. But last week, they extended their...
Usually, rape isn’t reported. When it is reported, it is often not charged. And when it is charged, it rarely leads to a conviction. These facts...
The risk of stating plainly what Idaho argued at the US supreme court on Wednesday morning is that it is so sadistic and extreme that people might not...
The students sat on the ground and sang as police in riot gear approached them. Eventually, more than 100 of them would be arrested; their tents,...
OJ Simpson is dead, and Nicole Brown should still be alive. Simpson, the longtime batterer and stalker of Nicole Brown Simpson, and the man who all...
They don’t need Congress. The anti-abortion movement is preparing to ban abortion nationwide as soon as a Republican takes the White House, and...
It’s hard to imagine a scenario in which the Florida state supreme court would not have allowed Governor Ron DeSantis’s six-week abortion ban to...