Open Thread

Esquire's Charles Pierce connects the dots from Jamal Khashoggi's murder by the Saudis to the Constitution's emoluments clause, and does so with the help of a quote from storied Delaware…

Yesterday's news cycle was dominated by Trump inaccurately calling Stormy Daniels "horseface," an insult that simply doesn't fit her. This was seen as an attempt to distract from Trump's murderous…

The Saudis aren't the fastest liars on the planet, that's for sure. It took them a week to come around to "he died under questioning by rogue elements," which ranks…

The Legend of Gritty continues to spread, this time with a piece in the New Yorker titled "How the Left won the war for Gritty." The author notes that Gritty…

What happened to Mike Matthews is going on all over America as election season nears a boil. The same day a Connecticut Republican dropped out of his race over Facebook…

In a long essay on the rise of socialism as a political force, Jonathan Chait grapples with the fears of center-left liberals who think socialism's goals are too scary to…

I'm starting to wonder if the Republicans haven't overplayed their hand on Brett Kavanaugh. For a day or two they gained ground in polls by stoking the fires of white…

Knowing what he knows now, Donald Trump probably would have nominated someone other than Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court. We know that from the Washington Post, which laid out…

Raise your hand if you thought the Trump family fortune was achieved by following all tax laws to the letter. Yeah, thought so. Still, the New York Times deserves credit…

So Chris Coons did all that for nothing. Republicans have made clear that they won't actually investigate Kavanaugh, because if they did they couldn't get him confirmed. They're OK with…

For somebody who's supposedly weighing a presidential run, Joe Biden sure has been quiet during the year's biggest political drama. Not without reason -- Republicans are following his 1991 playbook…