The Strongman Con: How to stop worrying about Trump stealing the election
Are you freaking out about Donald John Trump’s week-long stream of statements to the effect that he won’t cede the presidency if he loses in November? Has your stomach not…
Everything you need to know about the TikTok ban
Here’s everything you need to know about the ongoing feud between the Trump White House and TikTok.
White House calls federal training on white privilege ‘un-American propaganda’
In a memo released Friday, the Donald Trump administration called for a ban on tax dollar-funded training sessions that explain white privilege and critical race theory, which the memo described…
Stephen Colbert and Chris Christie have one of their ‘gentle disagreements’ over Trump
Stephen Colbert and former Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie are aware they don’t see eye-to-eye all the time, but that doesn’t mean he’s not an interesting guest on The…
Did Trump just use the soundtrack of a kids’ movie at his convention?
OK, hear me out. I have seen the animated film Sing approximately 700 times. (I have five-year-old twins, that’s my excuse.) I have also subjected myself to all four bleak,…
2020 Republican National Convention Day 1: How to Watch
The 2020 Republican National Convention will kick off Monday, August 24
Trump says QAnon followers ‘love our country’ after Facebook cracks down on violent groups
Trump once again declined to denounce the conspiracy theory group QAnon, which believes he is masterminding a plot to oust pedophiles in the highest reaches of government and politics. Not…
9 in 10 Republicans think social media sites censor political views
Republican politicians and conservative talking heads really did it, folks. They’ve convinced 90 percent of their followers of a conspiracy theory. (At least one, anyway.) A new survey from the…
How to help the USPS — and why it matters
The United States Postal Service is in trouble. You may have noticed that it’s taking longer to receive letters and packages through the USPS. You may have also seen that…
Here’s why your timeline is talking about the mail and USPS. (It’s not good.)
Amid everything else — the deadly pandemic, the November election, the U.S.’s ongoing reckoning with its racism — people online (and IRL) are deeply concerned about the United States Postal…