Open Thread

The best thing about the Trump interregnum has been the way it shines light into the myriad dark, ugly corners of the American upper crust. Most of the richies Trump…

Republicans remain committed to forcing radioactive Brett Kavanaugh on an ungrateful nation, but a few of them fret to WaPo's Robert Costa about the political fallout of ramming through the…

Confronted with Brett Kavanaugh's sudden radioactivity, the GOP has decided on the only course it knows: Full speed ahead. Senators seemed to settle on a narrative by last night, to…

How dumb are they? This dumb: An internal RNC poll shows a majority of Trump supporters believe his talk of a "red wave," so they think they don't have to…

The woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by Brett Kavanaugh when both were in high school has come forward, setting up a Showdown in #Metoo Corral if Democrats can…

Cynthia Nixon couldn't overcome that surname. Andrew Cuomo trounced her by 30 points, about the same margin by which Tom Carper defeated Kerri Harris. But her campaign's effect on the…

America's latest police atrocity is playing out in Dallas, where a cop named Amber Guyger returned from her shift and entered the apartment directly above hers -- supposedly thinking it…

All year long we've heard pundits warning that maybe a blue wave was just wishful thinking, that a Democratic takeover of the House might not happen because the polls could…

An anonymous White House source has outed himself. No, not the writer, the one who spoke the obvious. Mick Mulvaney, one of the sneakiest rats on the USS Trump, is…

The Anomynous Controversy™ has managed to obscure the most important revelation in the Brett Kavanaugh hearings: The future SCOTUS justice is a sack of shit who thinks nothing of lying…

Official Washington's reaction to Bob Woodward's book is exactly what you'd expect in Kabuki theater: People are shocked, shocked to learn that "the adults" in the White House have been…

Given how permissive Democrats have been about white-collar Wall Street crime, punishing no bankers for their law-breaking around the Great Recession, how can they ever convince Republicans in Congress that…