North Carolina Appeals Court Allows Republican Power Grab On State Election Board

House Republicans included massive cuts to federal social safety net programs, like Medicaid, in the reconciliation package they passed in May. Experts tell TPM that the cuts to the programs amount to an effort to repeal elements of the Affordable Care Act.  This week, Senate Republicans signalled they might go…

A few points on the effect rather than the wisdom or possible fall-out of these attacks. The President has repeatedly said the Fordow nuclear facility was “obliterated”. Clearly that is a party slogan rather than any kind of factual analysis. We’re now getting the first after-action reports out of the…

On Saturday, watching the President’s birthday celebration/Army parade I commented that it seemed like it was going so poorly and Trump seemed so grumbly that I was afraid he might occupy a few more cities with the tantrum he was going to throw as a result. Of course “going poorly”…