How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics

As Marjorie Taylor Greene endorses the dissolution of the United States, the question is whether House GOP leaders will bother to care.

Kevin McCarthy tried to explain why he'll block specific Democrats from serving on the House Intelligence Committee. His pitch went surprisingly badly.

For the fourth time in 20 years, the GOP has rejected a compromise on immigration and border policies. It's worth understanding why this keeps happening.

Donald Trump seemed to volunteer to Fox News that the FBI was on his trail, so he fired the FBI director in order to save his own skin.

Trump is the first ever candidate to effectively tell the electorate, “Vote for me and I’ll deliberately release violent criminals back onto the streets.”

The arrests from Ron DeSantis’ election crimes office appeared ridiculous over the summer. As the criminal cases keep collapsing, they now look even worse.

Twice in recent months, Biden was slammed for making wild predictions about Trump. In both instances, Trump did exactly what Biden predicted he'd do.

Will we hear from the conservatives who said the crime didn’t happen?

Kevin McCarthy and his team had 15 months to prepare for the rollout of their "Commitment to America" blueprint. It has not gone smoothly.

Tom Cotton wants voters to decide Donald Trump’s fate. Has the senator not noticed that Trump doesn’t respect or accept election results he doesn’t like?

Chris Hayes once wrote, "Much of movement conservatism is a con and the base are the marks." It was true at the time, but it's even more important now.

As the midterms elections near, voters don't appear focused on Republican plans for Social Security and Medicare. That's probably a mistake.

Normally, this would be a presidency-defining moment. Under Trump, it was maybe the 17th biggest political story in the United States.

According to Cassidy Hutchinson, Mark Meadows burned so many White House documents that his wife complained about the dry-cleaning bills.

If there's a defense for Senate Republicans rejecting a bill to help sick veterans, after having already voted for a similar bill, it's hiding well.

According to a Trump-appointed prosecutor, the GOP’s star witness in the case against Joe Biden was fed bogus claims from Russian intelligence officials.

Perhaps the most under-appreciated element of the 2020 race: the staggering number of people who've worked directly with Trump and now want to see him lose

Alito argued that the Supreme Court’s critics have crossed an important line. But if anyone’s gone too far in an irresponsible direction, it’s Alito.

The man overseeing Trump's campaign allegedly shared internal information with a Russian operative, who conveyed it to Russian Intelligence Services.

While most U.S. officials have expressed support for allies in Kyiv, Madison Cawthorn said Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a “thug” leading an “evil” government.

Devin Nunes, Ron Johnson, and Jason Miller each faced questions about political assistance from foreign sources. None of them wanted to talk about it.

On infrastructure, Mitch McConnell is making absurd demands of Democratic leaders. They'd be wise to ignore him.

Before the 2020 elections, Donald Trump pressed the Justice Department to go after Joe Biden. Trump's latest accusations suggest he's forgotten about this.

Georgia's secretary of state claims Lindsey Graham pressured him directly, questioning the validity of legally cast absentee ballots.

Questions surrounding the Saudis' $2 billion investment in Jared Kushner's firm seem unavoidable, but House Republicans are content to look the other way.

Why would Donald Trump provide Russian officials with highly sensitive national security secrets? There are a few possible explanations, all of them bad.

After his defeat, Donald Trump urged his supporters to contribute to an Election Defense Fund. The trouble is, there was no actual Election Defense Fund.

How strong have the U.S. job numbers been in recent months? Strong enough to leave Republican leaders literally at a loss for words.

When a president finds it necessary to revise a projected death toll seven times in two months, there's a problem.

Tommy Tuberville not only considers Vladimir Putin credible, he also wants to shift responsibility for the war in Ukraine from Moscow to D.C.

I appreciate the fact that Donald Trump feels the need to villainize those who put him at risk, but his rhetoric toward the FBI is utterly bonkers.

It is about the preservation of a certain social order, not the rule of law.

For more than two decades, Clarence Thomas reportedly accepted luxury trips from a GOP megadonor — and the Supreme Court justice failed to disclose them.

They're effectively arguing, "Instead of impeachment, we should be focused on meaningful legislation, which we'll also oppose."

The unemployment rate is now down to 3.5% — a level so low that the United States did not reach it at any point throughout the 1970s, 1980s, or 1990s.

When a president finds it necessary to revise a projected death toll five times in 13 days, there's a problem.

“In exchange for not crashing the United States economy, you get nothing,” one Democratic senator said. “You don’t get a cookie."

It seems oddly fitting that a presidency that began with a reference to "alternative facts" is ending with references to "alternate" electors.

Despite all the GOP talk about "moving on," the #2 House Republican, even now, questions the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election.

In a normal administration, following today's revelations, Michael Caputo would be cleaning out his desk today and writing his resignation letter.

We’ve reached the point in our politics at which the Republican Party's likely presidential nominee feels the need to deny he’s read Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.”

Sen. Joe Manchin can imagine a voting-rights bill that would pass the Senate with overwhelming bipartisan support. I wish he were right. He's not.

“We never talk about subs!” three defense officials told BuzzFeed News after a transcript of a call between President Trump and Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte was published.

"The security ramifications are insane -- using an open cellphone to communicate with the president of the United States," one former official explained.

As Sen. Lindsey Graham whines about the "politicization" of Jan. 6, he should know one cannot "politicize" that which is inherently political.

Donald Trump casually raised the prospect of violence against the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Gen. Mark Milley's response is worth considering.

Donald Trump has suffered several legal setbacks lately, but today’s ruling related to John Eastman is easily among the most dramatic.

Donald Trump "has a consistent pattern of inciting violence," Ted Cruz said -- in 2016.

CNN reports it has obtained the audio of the 2021 meeting at Donald Trump's Bedminster club at which Trump makes it seem as though he is sharing secret information that he is aware he cannot declas...

Donald Trump is amazingly incapable of being cautious and discrete when discussing sensitive security information in public.

It’s not just that Joe Biden has succeeded while Donald Trump failed, it’s also that Biden succeeded where Trump failed.

The president was there with the Japanese prime minister when news broke that North Korea had test-fired a ballistic missile.

Some details the president has revealed are inaccurate, others are classified. Officials say they worry what to put in briefings for a man with no filter.

In new book ‘Rage,’ Trump says he deliberately played down threat of pandemic and says he feels no responsibility to better understand the anger and pain of Black Americans.

Remember when Steve Wynn, Elliott Broidy, Michael Cohen, and Louis DeJoy were the RNC's four finance chairs?

Soon after leaving office, the former president shared sensitive information about American submarines with a billionaire member of Mar-a-Lago, according to people familiar with the matter.

The president’s tweet, which included a high-resolution satellite image of the damage, was unusual because Iran had neither acknowledged the accident nor blamed the United States.

As Congress prepares to reform the Electoral Count Act, Donald Trump sees the effort itself as vindication. That's ridiculous.