By now, I assume you’ve read about what happened. Maybe you’ve seen the video. But yesterday was one of those...

‘Shockingly Corrupt’ PSAs House and Senate Democratic appropriators are unleashing on the Trump administration and confirming reports that the Trump...

This afternoon I saw an ad being run by a SuperPAC supporting Dan Osborn (“Nebraska Values PAC”) against Sen. Pete...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the Trump administration to continue deporting people to countries where they...

TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread text messages when he attempted to corner former...

This morning the full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on whether the Trump administration will be subject...

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As I noted a week ago, we can’t know whether the current polls will be predictive of the November election...

The House has already left town. The Senate is heading home this week. With the midterms just around the corner,...

Blanche Overpromises and Underdelivers The mother of all “investigate the investigators” retributions in south Florida suffered another major blow with...

Programming Note I’ve been gone for two days! I forgot to say on Thursday’s edition that I’d be taking a...

This article is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. As insurgent candidates offering critiques of the Democratic Party...

I’m figuring this will end up as a big mistake. You probably know about the big NYT expose about Sen....

‘I Will Challenge Anybody Who Gets in My Way’ My colleagues and I have been tracking the creative ways in...

This op-ed is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Last week, New York City announced a groundbreaking $131.5...

This has gotten very little attention, as far as I can tell. But it sounds quite sleazy and another example...

Three Different Court Orders Violated The Trump administration was found in contempt of court Friday for wrongfully deporting a young...

Here’s our text for the day on the LLM/AI “boom”, which is now the center of the US economy and...

The census makes politics. Representatives are allocated to states based on the count of the population, and states redistrict their...

I want to flag your attention to this note written by computer scientist and AI researcher Yoshua Bengio. It was...

Here’s a secondary issue we’re currently seeing in a number of races in Red States. Take the Kansas Senate race....

Yesterday, after a federal court forced the White House to readmit three news organizations to the White House, Donald Trump...

For the third time in just over two weeks, the Supreme Court declined to let Missouri Republicans jam through a...

A federal judge decried the “cruelty” detainees experienced inside Manhattan’s infamous ICE detention center in a court ruling filed on...

Here is a short update on the so-called Broadview Six case — one of the high-profile prosecutorial abuse cases coming...

The Supreme Court on Friday let the Trump administration use its newly-expanded system to verify people’s citizenship status, which the...

There’s an article (gift link) out today in The Wall Street Journal about infrastructure spending on AI and data centers....

A Funhouse Mirror of Corruption Let’s end the week with an intriguing — and even amusing — new development in...

In case you’ve missed it, we relaunched our Weekender newsletter earlier this year, adding some fun recurring segments (trivia! “This...