July 10, 2026 at 11:30 AM EDT
Reactions to Trump's 'mental glitches' reveal serious condition: psychologist

While speaking with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the NATO summit earlier this week, President Donald Trump misspoke a number of times, referring to Iran as "the Islamic Republic of Japan" and Zelensky as "Putin." According to psychologist and body language expert Dr. John Paul Garrison, not only do these "mental glitches" signal a serious health condition, but the reactions of Trump's onlooking officials reveal much about their thoughts on the president.

July 10, 2026 at 11:12 AM EDT
GOP 'delusions of moral superiority' can't erase MAGA's fatal flaws: George Will

Democrats' hopes of flipping the U.S. Senate in the 2026 midterms hit a major bump in the road when scandal-ridden Graham Platner dropped out of Maine's U.S. Senate race -- a scandal that, Never Trump conservative George Will argues in his Washington Post column, underscores the Democratic Party's dysfunction. But Will also emphasizes, in his column, that Republicans are in no position to claim "moral superiority" when President Donald Trump has such a stranglehold on the GOP.

July 10, 2026 at 10:51 AM EDT
Legal analyst painstakingly details what Clarence Thomas' alarming dissent means

Former federal prosecutor and legal analyst Harry Litman is sounding the alarm about a dissent from Justice Clarence Thomas. In a column for The New Republic on Friday, Litman cited the ruling in the Trump v. Barbara case, which upheld the U.S. Constitution's birthright citizenship provisions. While the ruling set the interpretation of the law, the importance of a dissent shouldn't be lost.

July 10, 2026 at 9:51 AM EDT
CIA agents say Trump administration pushed them to lie

The Trump administration fired senior career intelligence officers for refusing to fabricate reports that would align with White House policy goals. This is according to a survey of CIA agents conducted recently, which reveals a troubling atmosphere of political pressure and "concern among the rank and file that Trump administration meddling is undermining intelligence work." The survey was revealed on Friday in a report by the Atlantic , and in it, agent comments "show how acutely some of them feel pressured to reach preferred outcomes instead of following the facts wherever they lead." Insiders familiar with the survey spoke with the Atlantic on the condition of strict anonymity so they could speak candidly.

July 10, 2026 at 9:06 AM EDT
Why the right is driving conspiracy theories against Mitch McConnell

When The Hill reported, earlier this week, that Senate Major Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) and Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-Wyoming) had been speaking to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) -- who has been hospitalized for weeks -- quite a few MAGA Republicans argued that they weren't being transparent. Democrats called for transparency as well, but MAGA Republicans had an especially conspiratorial tone about McConnell's illness. And CNN's John Berman examined that tone during a Friday morning conversation with Puck News' Leigh Ann Caldwell.

July 10, 2026 at 5:50 AM EDT
Trump wipes out entire election agency --and nobody's sure what happens next

President Donald Trump fired all three remaining members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission on Thursday, abruptly disabling the only federal agency devoted solely to election administration at a moment when Trump has sought to reshape federal voting rules. The two Democratic commissioners, Thomas Hicks and Benjamin Hovland, were notified by email. "On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as Commissioner of the Election Assistance Commission is terminated, effective immediately. Thank you for your service," the email said. It was signed by Morgan DeWitt Snow, deputy director of presidential personnel in the Executive Office of the President.

July 10, 2026 at 5:33 AM EDT
Study confirms what many suspected: the 2024 election was rigged

It sure looks like tech billionaires and foreign dictatorships gave us Trump in 2024. This is as bad as the massive Russian bot presence on Facebook and Twitter back in 2016, which Robert Mueller documented gave Trump the presidency that time. A peer-reviewed study released Thursday in Nature, the world's most prestigious scientific journal, has finally put hard numbers to what a lot of us suspected the moment the 2024 election was called for Trump (and Republicans in Congress) by the big networks: the algorithms that control our largest social media platforms intentionally and explicitly tilted the playing field, and they tilted it for Donald Trump and the GOP.

July 9, 2026 at 10:15 PM EDT
'He's gonna flip': Critics predict Fetterman revolt after joining forces with a Republican

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is widely regarded as one of the most conservative Democrats in the Senate, frequently abandoning his party during key votes to align himself with President Donald Trump. Now some political analysts believe Fetterman may ditch the Democrats altogether.

July 9, 2026 at 10:11 PM EDT
MAGA man arrested for 'lewd acts' at a Trump rally blames Antifa -- to a puppet

MAGA is getting more and more weird, says the Bulwark crew of Tim Miller, Sam Stein and Will Sommer. But MAGA's talent for blaming others for their personal depravities remains unchanged. MAGA social media influencer Gian Rachtelli, 54, was charged with lewd, indecent and obscene acts on the National Mall, allegedly while dressed as Uncle Sam during an acrobatic performance at President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair, according to police documents.

July 9, 2026 at 9:10 PM EDT
Humiliation as Trump walks back key economic claim

President Donald Trump has consistently received staunch support from farmers, who remain among his most loyal constituents to this day. Yet they have taken economic hit after economic hit from his policies of mass deportations, unprecedented tariffs and a war against Iran that has raised prices on fertilizer and fuel. Now Trump must walk back what he claimed was one of his major achievements: a supposed rise in beef exports. After initially claiming through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that American been exports had risen by 500 percent from the previous week, to 126,062 metric tons, Trump is now reversing himself.

July 9, 2026 at 7:53 PM EDT
Disillusioned MAGA peppering deep-red state with anti-Trump billboards

President Donald Trump's political movement has been widely compared to a cult -- and now billboards in Tennessee are offering adherents a way out. "Having Doubts? You Are Not Alone," proclaims the advertisement for the website "Leaving MAGA" along Nashville's Interstate 40, according to a report by The Tennessean on Thursday. Its founder, Rich Logis, told the publication that he is trying to provide former Trump supporters -- like him -- with a safe space to leave the right-wing movement.

July 9, 2026 at 7:53 PM EDT
Republican governor thwarts his own pardon of indicted GOP ally

No sooner did news break last week that a New Orleans grand jury had indicted Attorney General Liz Murrill, Gov. Jeff Landry got on social media and promised to pardon her. But now Baton Rouge, La. newspaper The Advocate says Landry may have loused up his own promise with his hard-on-crime anti-pardon policies.