Essays
Long-form analysis and deep dives into the most consequential moments and patterns in the archive.
The Top 10 Most Insane and Obvious Lies
Ten lies so brazen, so easily disproven, so obviously false that believing them requires active participation
The Ballot Seizure
Five years after losing Georgia by 11,779 votes, Trump's FBI seized the ballots—and his intelligence chief rode along to watch
When They Came for the Witnesses
Seventeen days after Renee Nicole Good, federal agents killed Alex Pretti—and the Trump administration escalated from "domestic terrorist" to "insurrection"
The Cruelty Engine
How Trump's performative cruelty, amplified by right-wing media, became the beating heart of a political movement
The Fascist Playbook
Why Trump's own generals call him a fascist—and what the historical pattern reveals
The Anti-Reality Field
In Minneapolis, the Trump administration didn't just lie about a killing—it required everyone around it to lie, too
The 187 Minutes
On the fifth anniversary of January 6, a minute-by-minute account of what the President did—and didn't do—as the Capitol burned