Steve Benen
Maddow Blog | Wednesday’s Mini-Report, 10.8.25
Today’s edition of quick hits.* The expected plea: “James Comey pleaded not guilty Wednesday to criminal charges that…
Maddow Blog | GOP’s Josh Hawley tries and fails to make a ‘weaponization’ argument against Joe Biden
There are certain myths that the Republican Party embraces as fact, reality be damned. Many GOP officials just…
Maddow Blog | Team Trump’s clashes with the faith community go from bad to worse
On the first full day of his second term, Donald Trump attended a national prayer service in Washington,…
Maddow Blog | Wednesday’s Campaign Round-Up, 10.8.25: More House Democrats draw primary rivals
Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.* In this week’s congressional special election primaries, Tennessee’s…
Maddow Blog | Even now, Republicans are still struggling to remember who was president in 2020
As part of the Republican Party’s scramble to gerrymander new district maps, a great many GOP officials have…
Maddow Blog | Tuesday’s Mini-Report, 10.7.25
Today’s edition of quick hits.* I think we know how this one is going to turn out: “The…
Maddow Blog | As his FBI tenure goes from bad to worse, Kash Patel abandons the pretense of seriousness
When Kash Patel arrived at the FBI as its new director earlier this year, he faced the kind…
Maddow Blog | As the shutdown continues, Republicans think they hold the upper hand (but they don’t)
On the fifth day of the ongoing government shutdown, House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared on CBS News’ “Face…
Maddow Blog | White House tries to defend Trump amplifying bizarre ‘medbed’ pseudoscience
It’s not exactly a secret that Donald Trump uses his social media platform to promote some deeply strange…
The ugly motivation behind the White House’s war against inspectors general
There were plenty of problems with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s ridiculous speech to the nation’s generals and admirals,…
Maddow Blog | ‘Total waste of money’: Observers question the point of Hegseth’s military gathering
The U.S. generals and admirals who were summoned to listen to bizarre remarks from Donald Trump and Defense…
Maddow Blog | Republican governor asks the Pentagon to deploy National Guard troops to Louisiana
In recent months, Americans have already seen National Guard troops deployed to Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., at…
Maddow Blog | YouTube’s $24 million settlement with Trump is part of an unsettling pattern
In the immediate aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack, Donald Trump was short on friends. Congressional Republicans kept…
Maddow Blog | As shutdown deadline arrives, Trump pushes racist and vulgar deepfake targeting Democrats
Three years into Barack Obama’s first term, as House Republicans pushed the nation closer to a government shutdown,…
Maddow Blog | Trump presses Microsoft to ‘immediately terminate’ Biden administration veteran
Donald Trump has complained bitterly about Lisa Monaco for years, but late last week, the president went quite…