Author: Amanda Marcotte

Tucker Carlson knows how to get attention. The former Fox News host-turned-powerhouse podcaster got explosive headlines after telling a Canadian podcast “Can’t Be Censored” last […]

The word “narcissist” comes from the Greek myth of Narcissus, which tells the story of a young man so enamored of his image in a […]

Years before he ran, the throughline that would define Donald Trump’s presidency was set: his racist, unhinged obsession with Barack Obama. Trump could have gone […]

Above all things, the Ulitmate Fighting Championship spectacle on the White House lawn on Sunday was Donald Trump’s birthday present to himself. The self-proclaimed “Greatest […]

JD Vance is famously addicted to social media, to a degree that one wonders if he has any job duties as vice president at all. […]

Turning Point USA was co-founded by Charlie Kirk and its fundraising apparatus since his death has centered around fading MAGA fantasies that he will be […]

Pete Hegseth is not a coherent thinker. This was demonstrated yet again on the D-Day anniversary event in France, where the defense secretary gave a […]

Victor Marx says the first time he participated in killing a man, he was merely 7 years old. He says he was forced by his […]

These days, it’s hard to tell if Donald Trump is mocking JD Vance again, or if the president is just sleepy.  “He looks like Eliot […]

Even by Donald Trump‘s erratic standards, his latest meltdown is bad — and deeply concerning. It all began with two major insults to his fragile […]

“When it happens” — the phrase became a meme almost overnight, as Troy Farah recently observed, in no small part because, even in our attention-addled […]

The smartest way for Donald Trump to deal with his E. Jean Carroll problem would be to accept defeat, pay her what he owes and […]