The defense secretary made his personal lawyer a Navy commander in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps. The closer one looks, ...

When drawing up a list of White House debacles, be sure to keep the failure of Trump’s Guantánamo Bay policy near the top.

Some key Republican officials seem to believe that Musk and DOGE enjoy broad public support. There’s a lot of evidence to the contrary.

It’s one thing for Musk to peddle bogus claims about imagined Social Security “fraud.” It’s something else when he targets the system itself. By Steve Benen Elon Musk’s recent social ...

The American president recently started fixating on the line separating the United States and Canada. It’s worth asking why.

As a rule, it’s unsettling when Republican White Houses claim to have secret evidence of foreign chemical labs.

The problem is not just that Trump and his allies are trying to gaslight the public on the Biden-era economy. It’s also that ...

The president’s habit of handing out pardons like party favors was a scandal in his first term. It’s worse now.

Matt Gaetz was Donald Trump’s first personnel fiasco, but not last. Take Dave Weldon's failed CDC nomination, for example.

It’s easy to get inured to the corruption, but hawking Teslas on the South Lawn was among the most obscene events in White ...

For Trump and too many Republicans, Americans who disagree with them are effectively an impossibility that can only be explained through illicit payments. By Steve Benen As members of Congress ...

More than six decades after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, Enrich makes a ...