Republican Sen. Ron Johnson said he was "serious" about using his leverage to reduce the deficit. He apparently didn't mean a ...

The Republican senator tried to explain why she advanced a far-right megabill despite serious reservations, but her reasoning doesn’t make sense.

Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.* In the 2024 election cycle, Elon Musk donated ...

To hear the vice president tell it, ICE funding is more important than health care, the national debt and feeding the hungry.

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said President Trump was "panicking" over the protests against him and his policies, telling the president the movement was more unstoppable than ever.

Maddow Blog | Trump administration’s policies spark on-base protests at Defense Department schools. Steve Benen. Thu, April 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM UTC. 2 min read.

Traditionally, once Labor Day is over, American presidential elections enter a nine-week home stretch. It’s a point at which campaigns start to hone their messaging; voters start weighing their ...

When President Joe Biden delivered an Oval Office address last week, announcing his decision to end his re-election campaign, the Democratic incumbent briefly touched on some of the priorities he’d ...

After President Joe Biden announced that he wouldn’t seek a second term, the Democratic incumbent wasted little time in endorsing his vice president, Kamala Harris. The Californian, not ...

Regardless of what happens with Maddow’s show, we here at the Erik Wemple Blog are using her likely departure to suggest a 15-year term limit for prime-time cable news hosts.

Then Maddow brought up the glaring irony of the message of Trump’s blog. “Yes, he used to be president, but now he’s at his house in Florida, arising a beacon of freedom straight from his ...