Ed Kilgore

There are a lot of theories floating around as to President-elect Donald Trump 's motives in putting forward a raft of highly objectionable Cabinet

Trump’s campaign promises, from tax cuts to mass deportation, all but guarantee another attack on Obamacare, Medicaid, and other low-income programs.

There are quite a few categories of people who have reason to fear Donald Trump 's policy agenda for 2025, which he can be expected to pursue via

On Election Night, with characteristic modesty, Donald Trump claimed an “unprecedented and powerful mandate.” He certainly won the contest legitimately, if more narrowly than many observers initially thought.

For a while there, the electoral reform known as ranked-choice voting (or as some call it, instant runoff voting) had some momentum.

by Ed Kilgore , November 21st, 2024 5:09 PM EST In a continuing effort to outline what the 2024 election returns did and did not mean, I offered some objections at New York to some of the triumphalist talk from MAGA-land.

Donald Trump 's shocking nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head up the vast Department of Health and Human Services led to a lot of concerns

Fresh from the narrow presidential election victory that he has insisted on calling an “unprecedented and powerful mandate,” Donald Trump 's very

The withdrawal of Matt Gaetz for attorney general shows Trump might not go to the ultimate lengths to impose his will on Congress.

Nobody much knows how to deal with the Department of Government Efficiency , whose DOGE acronym is based on a cryptocurrency-adjacent meme . Donald