Open Thread

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…

The Brett Kavanaugh saga has exposed the ugliest side of America -- its upper crust. As Chauncey de Vega notes, Kavanaugh has benefited at every step of his life from…

A University of Delaware poll found enormous leads for Sen. Tom Carper and Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, but the most shocking figure was Republican Senate candidate Rob Arlett's anemic 22%…

I don't know if Democrats planned all this -- my first instinct is they're not smart enough -- but even if Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed to what will become a…