Author: Sophia Tesfaye

For an hour and four minutes on Friday night, the president stood at a podium in a hotel he used to own and used the […]

From the Epstein files to gun rights to immigration enforcement, senior Justice Department officials keep running to Fox News to freelance policy and signal loyalty […]

The shift was as swift as it was cold. Standing before reporters in the briefing room on Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was […]

Everything in the Trump era is a reality show, and the producers are desperate for a ratings bump. So for more than six hours on […]

In the span of a single week, two deals reshaped the future of American media by concentrating something more valuable than content itself: control over […]

Fox News may have been scared straight. After years of amplifying election denialism about the 2020 presidential election, the cable news giant now seems wary […]

For years, Donald Trump benefited from an informal court of influencers, podcasters and self-appointed power brokers who claimed unusual access to the former reality TV […]

Despite his best efforts to govern like a tin-pot dictator, Donald Trump cannot control his own government. Now he is panicking. In the last week, […]

Lindsey Graham was scheduled to appear Sunday morning on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” It would have been the South Carolina senator’s 64th appearance on the […]

Donald Trump wants the November midterms to be a referendum on “communism.” His vice president has other ideas. JD Vance, on tour to promote his […]

For years, Republicans ridiculed Democratic officials who vouched for Joe Biden’s competence, even as the then-president’s public appearances increasingly raised questions about his age and […]

Since Donald Trump has turned our nation’s 250th anniversary into a celebration of himself — complete with grift — let’s imagine a Fourth of July […]