Rethinking a Deal With the Devil State officials and elected leaders who once championed tax exemption deals with the executives...

Louisiana was met with a chilly reception Wednesday, as it pushed to make the abortion pill mifepristone less accessible nationwide....

A version of a federal rule proposing to exclude certain noncitizens from being counted in the 10-year Census was published...

Preparing for the Unthinkable President Trump’s concerted assault on free and fair elections is happening on so many fronts that...

On Tuesday the United Kingdom announced a series of sanctions against Israeli settlements in the West Bank. They were joined...

Chaos and the Courts A set of dueling federal court decisions sets the stage for the kind of legal flurry...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied Missouri Republicans’ attempt to jam through a new gerrymander that would leave Democrats with...

Throwing Socialism At the Wall Because There’s Nothing Else to Throw House Republicans voted on an amusingly slapdash resolution last...

The Israeli daily Haaretz published a big and consequential exposé today alleging that weeks before the October 7, 2023 massacres...

A Critical Week Ahead for Democracy As I sat down this morning to try to catch you up on the...

As part of their overarching plan to reduce the power of blue states and promote myths about noncitizen voting, the...

Yesterday I was kind of randomly rereading some details about Spain’s transition to democracy after the death of Francisco Franco...

In Rough Edges, Mike Rothschild writes about fringe groups, conspiracy theories and how the Internet broke our brains. This column is part...

A Permission Structure for a Power Grab As Allegra wrote over the weekend, this week stands to be a “uniquely...

Over the last day or so, a number of the big inside DC sheets have run pieces striking a skeptical...

This story was originally reported by Chabeli Carrazana of The 19th. Meet Chabeli and read more of their reporting on...

Sort of a minor point of interest. But still notable. The Italian government of Georgia Meloni has now become the...

Ex-AUSA Now Under Criminal Investigation The Trump DOJ has fired the federal prosecutor who sought to bring civil rights charges...

Don’t miss Layla A. Jones’ piece this morning, which details a kind of census corollary to Trump’s 2020 big lie....

‘Years’ to Send Out Mail-in Ballots Election experts are examining the new U.S. Postal Service rules for mailed ballots, and...

When longtime Indiana politician Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) lobbed a powerful allegation against the Census Bureau last October, what had...

Democrats are taking a convoluted, complex provision that was included in Republicans’ Big Beautiful bill to pin the blame for...

Through much of the course of the U.S.’s war in Iran, the Trump administration has tried to avoid calling the...

Longtime election analyst Charlie Cook has a piece up on his Substack looking at the fast-approaching midterms. It’s an interesting...

Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise! Democrats are sounding the alarm and demanding investigations in the wake of  a...

Maria Bartiromo is out at Fox News and Fox Business. And apparently with so little advance warning that they barely...

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. Death tends...

Judge Demands Answers by Noon A 19-year-old asylum seeker — who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador in March in...

Republicans Remind Everyone That Number of Supreme Court Justices Is Not in Constitution Amid signs Democrats may be more seriously...