Politics Archive
Archives for August 2025


Trump brought us the Covid vaccine. Now he’s trying to take it away.


Trump officials might be experimenting with creating something like a national, MAGA-loyal police force. That would be dangerous.


The CDC is collapsing. Will America’s health follow suit?


The weird lie animating the right-wing womanosphere.

The president’s tacky aesthetic is a window into his quest to become the single most enduring symbol of America.


The central bank is undemocratic — but so is Trump’s attack on it.


Trump is seizing on a flimsy pretext to fire one of the Fed’s seven governors.


Trump’s decision to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook is a test of the Republican justices’ submissiveness.


If Trump doesn’t like you, Bill Pulte may be looking into your mortgage soon.


Latino voters will be crucial to either party’s gerrymandering plans.


US vaccine consensus has officially shattered.


The hormone might be the key to understanding this moment in America.


America never recovered from the 2008 crash.


Abrego Garcia could face deportation to Uganda after being detained by ICE.


Jessica Knurick explains how to counter MAHA when no one trusts experts.