25+ min ago  (37+ words) Obama never thought Trump could win in 2016, perhaps because he underestimated how much the opposition loathed him. Ta-Nehisi Coates joins Tim Miller for the Juneteenth holiday weekend pod. Ta-Nehisi's latest piece in Vanity Fair...

54+ min ago  (524+ words) THERE IS A GREAT NUMBER of ancillary reasons why the Fox Corporation dropped $22 billion to purchase Roku, the maker of set-top boxes and television operating systems through which an enormous amount of streaming traffic flows. But all of them come…...

1+ hour, 46+ min ago  (61+ words) A recording from The Bulwark's live video JVL and Catherine Rampell take on the bizarre saga of Trump's Reflecting Pool contractor, the strange new world where convicted fraudsters are lining up for MAGA pardons, and the MAHA crusade against blue…...

2+ hour, 52+ min ago  (14+ words) Comments - Trump's Iran Hawks Found a Way to Love the Surrender. The Bulwark...

10+ hour, 18+ min ago  (154+ words) One revolution made Lafayette a hero. Another nearly destroyed him. The story of America's favorite Frenchman. this was a great essay. This new book looks fascinating. Will have to check it out. I also highly recommend Mike Duncan's biography cited…...

4+ hour, 21+ min ago  (291+ words) AROUND THE COUNTRY, food prices are surging, and Americans are going hungry. They're about to get hungrier, too, given that we've begun the steepest decline in food-stamp enrollment in decades. In the eight months following the law's enactment, SNAP enrollment…...

6+ hour, 3+ min ago  (42+ words) Will Saletan takes on JD Vance's TV blitz defending the Iran nuclear deal'and checks his claims against the actual text. Will Saletan takes on JD Vance's TV blitz defending the Iran nuclear deal'and checks his claims against the actual text....

6+ hour, 3+ min ago  (963+ words) Join JVL and Catherine Rampell at 12: 30 p. m. EDT today for Receipts Live. Watch on Substack or You Tube. The American story is largely the ongoing attempt of Americans to create a better kind of politics. That's what we're doing here. Join…...

9+ hour, 26+ min ago  (90+ words) The Ankler's Richard Rushfield returns to discuss the state of television. The Mount Rushmore of TV On this week's episode, I'm rejoined by my first guest, the great Richard Rushfield, to talk all things TV. What's the deal with Fox…...

9+ hour, 26+ min ago  (304+ words) [The end of slavery in the United States was a drawn-out process, with the timing and method varying from state to state and within states. Here are five testimonies of men and women from four different states recollecting'decades later'how they…...