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Welcome to another edition of What Fresh Hell?, Raw Story’s roundup of news items that might have become controversies under another regime, but got buried – or were at least under-appreciated – due to...
View ArticleThe presidential race really could end up as a tie — we should prepare for...
I don’t want to add to anyone’s stress, so let me preface this by saying that according to modeling by both FiveThirtyEight and The Economist, the likelihood of an Electoral College tie is less than...
View ArticleHow the 2020 election could go relatively smoothly–and deliver Trump a...
There are always dark warnings coming from the fringes that an incumbent president may refuse to honor the results of a losing election and pull off some sort of coup to remain in power. But with...
View ArticleTrump’s chief election watchdog sees the 2020 contest as a ‘spiritual war’
Welcome to another edition of What Fresh Hell?, Raw Story’s roundup of news items that might have become controversies under another regime, but got buried – or were at least under-appreciated – due to...
View ArticleThe future of Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat will likely hinge on control of...
Donald Trump may push Senate Republicans to try to jam a Supreme Court nominee through before the election, but I think it’s more likely that he’ll opt to run on the vacancy given that it’s an issue...
View ArticleTrump’s election threats are an effort to suppress Democratic turnout
Donald Trump’s refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses in November should alarm every American. “You know that I have been complaining very strongly about the ballots,” he said on...
View ArticleHere’s the real reason Trump is being so open about his plot to steal the...
It’s been pretty clear for months that Trump knows he’s losing, and his plan to cling to power rests on getting more Democrats to vote absentee than Republicans, claiming that those mail ballots are...
View ArticleYou’re about to pay for a goofy new pro-Trump ad campaign
In 1942, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels commissioned a lavishly produced propaganda film about the sinking of The Titanic. The film, which came to be known as “The Nazi Titanic,” featured a...
View Article‘Swindler’: Here are 5 reasons why Trump’s taxes will actually matter in 2020
I’ve been a consistent proponent of the ‘lol, nothing matters’ school of analysis of the 2020 election. I’ve noted that voters are unusually locked in this cycle, that Trump’s approval rating and the...
View ArticleThe White House’s statements about Trump’s condition just don’t add up
Welcome to another edition of What Fresh Hell?, Raw Story’s roundup of news items that might have become controversies under another regime, but got buried – or were at least under-appreciated – due to...
View ArticleThe stars may be aligned for Trump to be prosecuted
To say that the US doesn’t have a great record of holding its elites accountable would be a gross understatement. So while former prosecutors and other legal experts have argued that Donald Trump faces...
View ArticleHere’s how Trump’s ‘court-packing’ attack on Biden could blow up in his face
Given how brazenly Republicans blocked Barack Obama’s judicial nominees on an unprecedented scale and then packed the federal courts with young, conservative judicial activists, it was disappointing to...
View ArticleTrump is ranting and raving — and he shouldn’t have the nuclear codes
Welcome to another edition of What Fresh Hell?, Raw Story’s roundup of news items that might have become controversies under another regime, but got buried – or were at least under-appreciated – due to...
View ArticleHere’s the truth behind the Republicans’ big lie about ‘court-packing’
Since shortly after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Republicans have said that they will confirm her replacement just days before or after the election, after blocking Merrick Garland for 8 months in...
View ArticleTrump has appointed one-in-four federal judges — and destroyed the legitimacy...
Late Monday night, after the first day of Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination hearings had wrapped up in Washington, a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court and gave...
View ArticleIt’s been one faceplant after another as Trump and the GOP try to recreate...
Donald Trump is very, very bad at politics. In 2016, he lost the popular vote in both the GOP primaries and the general election. His net approval rating (approval minus disapproval) in...
View ArticleTrump World’s desperate Hunter Biden pseudo-scandal backfired on them in...
Welcome to another edition of What Fresh Hell?, Raw Story’s roundup of news items that might have become controversies under another regime, but got buried – or were at least under-appreciated – due to...
View ArticleHere’s the simple truth about the fake Hunter Biden scandal Team Trump wishes...
Donald Trump is trying hard to recreate the perfect storm that landed him in the White House in 2016 despite being the most unpopular candidate in the modern polling era. That year, the Clinton...
View ArticleTrump’s closing out the 2020 campaign by spreading COVID-19 around the country
Welcome to another edition of What Fresh Hell?, Raw Story’s roundup of news items that might have become controversies under another regime, but got buried – or were at least under-appreciated – due to...
View ArticleA right-wing powder keg: How conservative media is convincing Trump fans that...
Over the weekend, NPR interviewed some anxious voters. One, a Trump-supporter, said that his biggest worry was that Trump needed to win in a landslide to keep the left from claiming that the election...
View ArticleTrump called military personnel ‘suckers’ and ‘losers’–and now he’s fighting...
During the tumultuous fight for Florida in 2000, Mark Herron, an attorney for Al Gore’s campaign, sent a memo to the team’s recount observers urging them to challenge arriving absentee ballots that...
View ArticleConservatives are hopping mad that their clumsy Hunter Biden smear is a flop
Welcome to another edition of What Fresh Hell?, Raw Story’s roundup of news items that might have become controversies under another regime, but got buried – or were at least under-appreciated – due to...
View ArticleFive ways that Trump could transform American democracy for the better...
Donald Trump has more than fulfilled one campaign promise: Throughout his presidency, he has been the disruptive force he said he would be in 2016. For the most part, we focus on the ways that his...
View Article2020: The most stressful election of our lifetime
The 2020 election has proven to be the stress-test for American democracy that we expected. Donald Trump has been a historically unpopular president. According to FiveThirtyEight, the approval rating...
View ArticleWe’re witnessing the birth of a dangerous new strain in America’s right-wing...
Donald Trump has a lottery ticket’s chance of overturning Joe Biden’s decisive victory in the 2020 election. There’s no evidence of fraud that would hold up in a court of law. Biden’s margins are...
View ArticleThe GOP’s formula for destruction is back in play — here’s how Democrats can...
The broad contours of the next two years of American politics are pretty clear. They’re going to suck for the left. And things could get worse after that. But there is hope. The GOP’s nonsensical...
View ArticleTrump 2024? Bring it on
Welcome to another edition of What Fresh Hell?, Raw Story’s roundup of news items that might have become controversies under another regime, but got buried – or were at least under-appreciated – due to...
View ArticleTrump is inflicting as much damage as possible on the federal government on...
Welcome to another edition of What Fresh Hell?, Raw Story’s roundup of news items that might have become controversies under another regime, but got buried – or were at least under-appreciated – due to...
View ArticleWill we ever know how much money Trump and his family squeezed out of his...
Welcome to another edition of What Fresh Hell?, Raw Story’s roundup of news items that might have become controversies under another regime, but got buried – or were at least under-appreciated – due to...
View ArticleWith an imminent vaccine, Trump betrayed his central promise to the country
Welcome to another edition of What Fresh Hell?, Raw Story’s roundup of news items that might have become controversies under another regime, but got buried – or were at least under-appreciated – due to...
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