Politics

Following Vice President Kamala Harris’ historic speech at the Democratic National Convention, Donald Trump spiraled into a public, on-air meltdown that was several weeks in the making. The wave of enthusiasm surrounding Harris is closing the margins in key swing states, outpacing his fundraising, and she’s drawing massive crowds and …

Democrats’ convention in Chicago undoubtedly provided a contrast of sorts with the nominating convention I had covered in Milwaukee the month prior, where Donald Trump and his champagne-vomit-belching cultists were promising — in their own pornographically violent words — a version of Homer Simpson’s line about how his “campaign is …

When Robert Kennedy Jr. announced he would be suspending his campaign — while still encouraging people to vote for him — he claimed that he would be removing his name from the ballot in swing states where his candidacy might sway the election against Donald Trump. But with less than …

After weeks of speculation regarding what would happen to Donald Trump’s criminal indictments in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling, Special Counsel Jack Smith is sticking to his guns. On Tuesday, Smith’s office unveiled a superseding indictment against Trump relating to his efforts to overturn the results of …

On Friday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a show of selectively exiting the presidential race and throwing his support behind Donald Trump, hailing the former president as a champion of free speech. Less than a week later, Trump is already promising to crush First Amendment protections if elected in November. …

O n the day Igor Danchenko believes he was betrayed by the U.S. government — when the federal government’s chief law-enforcement officer effectively outed the Russian émigré, then a confidential FBI informant, as the architect of one of the most explosive and controversial documents in American political history — Danchenko …

Is he in or is he out? Donald Trump has once again hinted that he may attempt to duck a debate against Vice President Kamala Harris as the debate over debates rages on between the two campaigns. Late Sunday night, the former president laid into ABC News in an angry …

There are few who personally endure Elon Musk who don’t end up finding him uniquely off putting. That includes his political ally, former President Donald Trump, who is also nowadays increasingly relying on billionaires like Musk to use their considerable fortunes to put him back in the White House. Trump …

Like dogs with a bone, the right won’t drop their efforts to malign Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. On Monday, prominent conservatives circulated an absurd allegation that Walz was faking the identity of his family’s dog Scout. “This is Tim Walz tweeting about his dog Scout. Only problem is that these …

Thisarticlewas produced by Capital & Main. It is co-published by Rolling Stone with permission. It’s a familiar story.After the police murder of George Floyd in 2020, there was national soul searching and protests, and racial justice suddenly became fashionable. Money that once had been a trickle flowed into racial equity …