Philip Bump
The ongoing violent threat of election denialism
A few days after the 2020 presidential election, Andrew Nickels called an elections clerk in Michigan. He left a voice m...
6 hours ago
America’s divided electorate has again advanced President Biden and Donald Trump to the general election to determine wh...
6 hours ago
Your regular reminder: Rally turnout doesn’t predict election results
As is now his habit, Donald Trump took advantage of the press waiting for his arrival at his criminal trial in Manhattan...
14 hours ago
Michael Cohen outlined a crime. Did he prove that Trump committed one?
The most an American is allowed to contribute to a presidential (or any other federal) campaign is $3,300. The intent of...
14 hours ago
Why Donald Trump ended up praising Hollywood’s most famous cannibal
When Donald Trump is not reading the teleprompter, it’s hard to know what you’re going to get. Perhaps you’ll get the st...
1 day ago
A choice young voters see: Upend the country too much or not enough?
The 2024 presidential election is in just under six months, meaning that polling about that election falls into a hazy a...
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Of course Trump intertwined the Trump Organization into his presidency
When he first announced his candidacy for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump’s pitch was centered...
4 days ago
Republicans have a new new theory of why Biden should be impeached
The first time a member of the House introduced articles of impeachment targeting President Biden, he had held that titl...
4 days ago
Trump thinks his anti-green culture war is worth a $1 billion donation
The history of America’s reckoning with climate change can be summarized incompletely and too quickly as follows:For yea...
4 days ago
No, Democrats didn’t vote to give noncitizens a voice in Congress
Stephen Miller is not subtle. His rhetoric tends toward the apocalyptic, a habit that would seem hard to maintain over t...
4 days ago
For Marjorie Taylor Greene, getting booed by the House is no disincentive
Imagine if you could go back in time to early 2020 and tell Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) — then an unknown Donald...
5 days ago
What extremism looks like to Sean Hannity and his party
More than 51 million people voted for Democrat Al Gore in the 2000 election. And that they did so reveals something impo...
5 days ago
For all the complaints, Trump isn’t campaigning much on trial off-days
As Donald Trump’s New York trial was going through the process of selecting jurors, the former president offered a famil...
6 days ago
The 2020-was-stolen crew is here to stoke fears of noncitizen voters
Last month, as he were fending off complaints from his conference’s fringe-right flank, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La...
6 days ago
Trump’s classified documents trial blown apart by Cannon
The facts of the case do not favor former president Donald Trump.When he reluctantly left the White House in January 202...
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