Steve Benen
Team Trump eyes ambitious plan focused on post-2024 revenge
Donald Trump reportedly has an enemies list of sorts, and after the 2024 election, he hopes to use federal law enforcement to target his perceived foes...
Speaker Mike Johnson adopts an unsubtle media strategy
Speaker Mike Johnson appears less interested in introducing himself to the public, and more interested in reaching out to a narrower partisan constituency...
New York House Republicans to force a vote on expelling Santos
Are House members prepared to force George Santos out of Congress altogether? A group of Republicans are prepared to force the issue in a floor vote...
Republicans offered voters crises, and now they’re delivering
Ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, Republicans offered voters a series of crises. A year later, the party is delivering on those promises...
Why Republicans, even now, can’t settle on a House speaker
“Anyone who thought that the same problems that caused the chaos last week would magically disappear today now know how wrong they were," one GOP member said...
Why Michael Cohen had reason to celebrate the Trump Org ruling
What led to the brutal Trump Organization court ruling? Oddly enough, it started with Michael Cohen’s hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels...
In new case, Hunter Biden accuses Giuliani of hacking his data
It might be tempting to think Rudy Giuliani’s legal troubles couldn’t get worse, but Hunter Biden's new case against him is challenging that assumption...
Menendez’s indictment leads to weird GOP conspiracy theories (again)
After Bob Menendez’s first indictment, Republicans pushed an odd conspiracy theory. After his second indictment, they’ve come up with even weirder ideas...
Republicans confront new questions about whether they can govern
Taking stock of several GOP fiascos this week, one observer put it this way: "At this moment, House Republicans can’t govern. This isn’t just an opinion...
McCarthy suffers another embarrassment as shutdown deadline looms
As one observer put it, “Kevin McCarthy’s House Republicans are in a state of crisis.” Would anyone, in either party, seriously disagree...
