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Video: Uber’s Sexual Assault Problem
new video loaded: Uber’s Sexual Assault ProblemEmily Steel, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, got access to sealed court documents revealing more than 400,000 reports of sexual...
Texas Republican Accidentally Admits Truth About GOP’s Gerrymandering
Some defenders of Texas Republicans’ plan to rejigger the state’s congressional districts at the behest of President Trump might be inclined to suggest there’s some fair rationale for the...
What the Hell Was Trump Doing on the White House Roof?
The White House, for which Project 2025 had 13 listed objectives, is currently 92 percent complete, according to the tracker.Another 64 proposals are currently “in progress,” according to the...
Laura Loomer’s New Influence Is Already Backfiring on Her
Laura Loomer’s conspiratorial followers are already cannibalizing her for participating in “the swamp.”Just a day after reports emerged that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had tapped the far-right “9/11 truther”...
Democrats Have Found Their Message—and Trump Is Freaking Out
the Elizabeth Warren CNBC hit that triggered Trump: "Trump ran for office saying he'd lower costs on day 1. Cost of groceries are up, cost of housing is up,...
Texas Democrats Defy Abbott Deadline—as Republicans Threaten Arrest
“Listen, Donald Trump is a piece of shit, we know that. He is,” Crockett said, to applause. “But in a functioning democracy, he still would not be able to...
White House Christmas Auditions Are Open. Do With That What You Will.
“Listen, Donald Trump is a piece of shit, we know that. He is,” Crockett said, to applause. “But in a functioning democracy, he still would not be able to...
Pete Hegseth Brings in Worst Person Ever on Paranoid Hunt for Leakers
Far-right extremist Laura Loomer says that she is now working with the federal government to identify individuals within the Department of Defense who are leaking information to the press.Speaking...
MTG Has an Original Thought for Once in Her Life
MAGA isn’t MAGA enough anymore for Marjorie Taylor Greene, who seems as surprised as we do at her break with the party that gave her a pulpit.“I don’t know...
Elizabeth Warren Backs Zohran Mamdani in the Best Way Possible
Please, won’t somebody think of the billionaires?Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren defended mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the wealthiest New Yorkers in order to make the city more...
When Did Republican Women Get to Be So Vile as These Four?
On the main stage, Attorney General Pam Bondi has proven a singularly dutiful and hollow-eyed Trump soldier. (For Manson Family obsessives, she’s probably closest to Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme.) As...
Trump Wants a Police State—But Even Some Cops Want Something Better
I left daily journalism in 1995 to write a book about racial politics, a matter with which I’d long been engaged, but Mancuso and I have kept in touch, and in...