President Trump’s lawsuit-heavy coup to overturn the election results hit a little snag over the weekend. Sidney Powell, the very serious attorney who refers to herself as “The Kraken” while promising “biblical” revelations of nonexistent election fraud, went so far off the deep end that even Donald Trump had to …
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When news finally arrived last Saturday morning that Joseph R. Biden Jr. had been elected the 46th president of the United States, here is a non-exhaustive list of the things I wanted to do, in no particular order: Run out to the street with fists pumping, dance a jig, bang …
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Michael Cohen appeared before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday for the first time since agreeing to cooperate with prosecutors in both the Southern District of New York and the Special Counsel’s Office investigation. In his opening statement, Cohen revealed stunning new details suggesting President Trump had prior knowledge of …
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On the eve of his electionversary, voters seized the first electoral opportunity they’ve had to send a message to Donald Trump and the mostly white, mostly male Republican legislators empowered by his elevation to the presidency. In races all across the country, they voted to defeat candidates and replace incumbents …
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Maybe this is all Aaron Sorkin’s fault. The Big Speech has always been a powerful tool in politics, and no format is more consistently attention-getting than the public emperor-has-no-clothes soliloquy. Speechifying probably peaked in American politics in the second half of the 19th century, when (aided by the lack of …
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