Let’s make one thing very clear: in the hands of President Donald Trump and Attorney General Todd Blanche, the Department of ...

In this week’s episode of the PN Pod, Paul and I go deep on Trump’s shambolic midterm rallies, his devolution over the past ...

Long ridiculed as too soft, civil, or politically correct to play hard ball, the Democrats are finally showing some spine. Listen to the way Abdul El-Sayed, Troy Jackson, Angie Nixon, and Jon Ossoff ...

As election day approached in 2024, Donald Trump got a little wistful. Whether he won or lost, the end of the campaign would mean no more of the rallies he loved so much. “It’s coming to an end,” he ...

Steven Levitsky, old friend of the newsletter and author of “How Democracies Die,” recently argued that the US has “crossed ...

One of the peculiarities of being an American is the widespread national conviction that America is the best at everything.

Paxton only defeated incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in the GOP primary because of President Trump’s support — yet Trump can ...

On August 8, 2022, after more than a year of trying to cajole Donald Trump into voluntarily returning government property he’d stolen, FBI agents executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago at a time when ...

The man scheduled to be executed on December 3 is Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in a horrific mass shooting in 2009. The US has not conducted an execution by firing squad since World ...

Thanks for reading, and here’s to the next five years. Almost every psephologist and pollster believes the midterm election in 26 days will deliver Donald Trump a stinging rebuke. Midterms are ...

To commemorate PN’s 5th anniversary, this week we’re offering paid subscriptions at the special yearly rate of $40 (or about 16¢ per edition). This newsletter is only possible thanks to the support of ...