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Glenn Kessler was a journalist at The Washington Post for nearly 28 years, most recently writing The Fact Checker column. He is chief content officer at Sourcebase.ai and writes at https://glennkessler.substack.com.

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Unused Washington Post newspaper boxes sit near the Washington Post newspaper production facility in Springfield, VA.

Jeff Bezos’ cuts just ended the Washington Post as we knew it

Glenn Kessler

Gavin Newsom stands behind news microphones and in front of a framed California state flag.

Supreme Court allows California congressional map ahead of midterm elections

Jordan Rubin

Woman fills out her ballot as she votes on Nov. 03, 2020 in Miami.

Trump’s plan to redistrict the GOP to a midterms victory failed. He’s on to Plan B.

Chris Hayes

Multiple federal agents drag two people by the arms.

Why this freshman lawmaker just openly shrugged off the Fourth Amendment

Philip Bump

Talks in Congress to overhaul ICE are already breaking down

Jack Fitzpatrick

Why Republicans shouldn’t look to Trump to help negotiate a deal on DHS funding

Steve Benen

Scott Galloway, with a headset microphone, gestures with his hands.

Scott Galloway calls for Americans to boycott Trump’s biggest enablers

Allison Detzel

James Talarico speaks at a podium. A crowd of people sits in front of him in a lawn.

Talarico’s ‘mediocre Black man’ controversy highlights divisions among Texas Democrats

Ja'han Jones

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard during a Cabinet meeting on Aug. 26, 2025, in the Cabinet Room of the White House.

Congress to gain access to the whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard at last

Steve Benen

A person holds a sign that reads "Keep ICE out of hospitals."

I’m a doctor. The consequences of ICE presence in hospitals could be deadly.

Dr. Uché Blackstock

Barack Obama gestures behind a podium and microphone.

White House picks a fight it can’t win over Obama-era deportations

Steve Benen

The Kennedy Center reflected in the Potomac River at dusk.

Trump’s contempt for the Kennedy Center has reached a new level. I’m pushing back.

Rep. Chellie Pingree

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth during an executive order signing on Aug. 25, 2025 in the Oval Office of the White House.

Pete Hegseth has found a new culture-war distraction

Steve Benen

Border czar Tom Homan during a news conference on Jan. 29, 2026, in Minneapolis.

700 federal law enforcement officers to leave Minnesota, Homan says

Clarissa-Jan Lim

President Donald Trump speaks to the press on March 28, 2025, aboard Air Force One before arriving in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Lashing out at women in media, Trump still can’t seem to restrain himself

Steve Benen

Elon Musk, left, and President Donald Trump shake hands in the Oval Office

The Trump administration has finally admitted to DOGE’s misuse of Americans’ data

Rep. John B. Larson

Donald Trump's face is seen among a crowd of people.

Trump’s fixation on ‘central casting’ takes a still more ridiculous turn

Steve Benen

A person votes during early voting at a polling station in Black Mountain, N.C.

Trump steps on his own allies, doubles down on radical federal takeover of elections

Steve Benen

Ryan Routh, the man convicted for the apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump, on Sept. 15, 2024.

Cannon sentences Trump’s attempted assassin Routh to life in prison

Jordan Rubin

A Fulton county worker moves a stack of absentee ballots on Nov. 6, 2020 in Atlanta.

Fulton County files motion seeking return of 2020 ballots seized by FBI

Ebony Davis

Federal agents detain a person on Jan. 21, 2026, in Minneapolis.

Joe Scarborough blasts GOP for inaction amid ICE violence: ‘Are you proud of this?’

Allison Detzel

The Department of Homeland Security logo on a law enforcement vehicle on March 7, 2017 in Washington D.C.

It’s not just ICE: A debate over breaking up the Department of Homeland Security begins

Steve Benen

Mike Johnson speaking to the journalists in a very closeup frame. Photo is shot from below.

The House Republicans’ edge narrows again, fueling new GOP anxieties

Steve Benen

Former Washington Post chief: Fear of Trump pushed Bezos to gut the newspaper

Republicans fear Marjorie Taylor Greene’s district could flip blue

‘Weird, little man’: Rep. Grijalva blasts Stephen Miller, calls for his removal

‘Hellbent’: Trump is reassembling his 2020 coup crew amid 2026 midterm panic

‘My own government attempted to execute me’: Victims of ICE and CBP aggression testify

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  1. Mike Johnson; Hakeem Jeffries.

    How Mike Johnson’s shutdown miscalculation foreshadows his next big fight

    Hayes Brown

  2. A banner showing an image of President Donald Trump behind a US flag outside the Department of Agriculture building.

    Trump’s latest anti-democratic trial balloon should be taken seriously

    Zeeshan Aleem

  3. Don Lemon's profile, surrounded by media.

    Pam Bondi is using the FACE Act against Don Lemon for a reason — and it’s not public safety

    Lizz Winstead

  4. Dan Bongino; Donald Trump.

    Dan Bongino’s first big podcast interview post-FBI proved exactly why he had to leave

    Philip Bump

  5. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters and members of the media on board Air Force One while flying in between Washington and West Palm Beach, Fla.

    Trump’s latest argument on the Epstein files was predictable

    Ryan Teague Beckwith

  6. A tight shot shows Donald Trump looking at the reporters and Melania Trump can be seen in the background very out of focus.

    Trump basically admitted the backlash against his Kennedy Center renaming worked

    Zeeshan Aleem

  7. President Donald Trump on Jan. 27, 2026 on the South Lawn of the White House.

    A new poll has warning signs for Trump — and he knows it

    Zeeshan Aleem

  8. Boxes of General Election 2020 ballots wrapped up in an Enterprise truck.

    I watched the Georgia 2020 recount. Here’s what the FBI raid in Fulton County is really about.

    Jacquelyn Lopez

  9. President Donald Trump during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City.

    There’s a lot on the line as Trump stiffs the U.N. for billions

    Hayes Brown

  10. Don Lemon surrounded by people documenting with cameras and cell phones. A person behind him holds a sign that reads "Committee for the First Amendment."

    Don Lemon’s arrest was meant to send a message. Here’s how judges can send one back.

    Austin Sarat

  11. A screengrab of Georgia Fort from a video she posted on Facebook; the sun peeking out from behind the spire of Cities Church.

    Georgia Fort warned me about the press before her arrest by the Trump administration

    Ja'han Jones

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