Republicans still pushed Russell Vought through.

His funding freeze play was supposed to be part of a well-planned, shock-and-awe takeover. The slapdash result suggests that the minds behind MAGA 2.0 are still a slopcore mess.

Russell Vought, Project 2025 mastermind and Trump’s nominee for the Office of Management and Budget, had quite a testy confirmation hearing.

Republican senators were apparently all too happy to let Russell Vought skate through.

The House speaker is ready to commit political blackmail.

Musk is under fire for doing a Nazi salute at Donald Trump’s inauguration—twice.

Donald Trump is already going after Mark Milley and José Andrés, among others.

Donald Trump repeatedly pushed the far-right idea on the campaign trail.

It’s the part of the Constitution that guarantees all Americans something Republicans despise: equal protection under the law.

The authors of the bestselling “How Democracies Die” talk with editor Michael Tomasky about what kind of mark four more years of Donald Trump might leave on this democracy.

Well, reality must be faced now. But many courageous Americans are ready to fight.

The road ahead is filled with peril—for our fellow Americans, the Democratic Party, and Donald Trump himself.

You can’t “return abortion to the states” and then get upset when states protect abortion rights.

His solution to the housing crisis is the perfect distillation of Trumpism: It’s mind-blowingly evil, and it has no hope of working.

Democrats spent part of their week identifying the real people who’d be harmed by Project 2025. They should follow these instincts from now till November.

What is it with Republicans and dog killing?

Polling shows that the policy manifesto disavowed by the former president is increasingly penetrating the public consciousness. Kamala Harris’s Washington allies want it to stay that way.

You’ve read about the scary horrors of a Trump second term. But a legal war of attrition that harasses MAGA’s enemies and transforms government info into propaganda could prove more insidious and harder to mobilize against.

Kevin Roberts believes environmentalism is something between a “pseudo-religion” and a conspiracy. Yet he’s one of the speakers at the paper’s Climate Forward event later this month.

The Heritage Foundation blueprint has become absolute poison for Trump, who has been desperately trying to run away from it. Which is exactly why Democrats and liberal groups have to work to keep it alive through Election Day.