Opinion

Now Trump Officials Are Choosing to Talk About ICE At the Polls

Now, it might be the administration’s new line on the matter. During an interview with Matthew Schlapp at the Conservative Political Action Conference today, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche was ...

We Got More Tickets!

Due to popular demand, we’ve increased our ticket allotment for the ...

Senate Republicans Send ‘Last and Final’ DHS Offer to Dems

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said Republicans sent Senate Democrats “our last and final offer” for the ongoing ...

Congress in the Dark on Iran

We’re starting to see House Republicans complain that, even as the administration prepares to ask for huge sums to keep the ...

ICE Is In Airports. Dem Secs of State Are Worried About the Midterms

Amid conflicting, generally confusing and outright evasive statements from the Trump administration on the matter, Democratic secretaries of state are demanding that the administration explicitly say ...

A Member of a Key House Committee Explains How Iran War Funding Has Become an Almost $1 Trillion ‘Mess’

As a member of the House Appropriations Committee, Rep. Joe Morelle (D-NY) has had a front row seat to the process for funding President Donald Trump’s ongoing war in Iran.
Opinion

Listen To This: Airports on ICE

Kate and Josh talk airports in crisis, Trump’s bewildering political calculus and, believe it or not, an optimistic vision of what a post-Trump world could look like. Watch and subscribe to see all of ...

DOGE’s Impact on DC

At TPM, our mission is to chronicle unconstitutional abuses of power and blatant corruption. Beyond just observing and ...
Opinion

TPM Live: Trump, the Right, and Martial Arts

Trump, like many other right-wing leaders before him, has a long history with combat sports. In a 3 p.m. Substack Live, we’ll take a look at how martial arts has become right coded. It’s a cultural ...
Opinion

Trump Casts His Drama-of-the-Day Spell While the World Moves On

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as he announces the creation of the U.S. strategic critical minerals reserve during an event in the Oval Office of the White House on February 02, 202... WASHINGTON, ...

DOGE Damage Drags on in DC, Where Inequality is Widening as a Result

On a webpage touting President Donald Trump’s first-year accomplishments, the White House praised DOGE cuts for creating a “leaner, more effective government.” “President Trump shrunk the federal ...
Opinion

The Historic Self-Own of Trump’s Iran Misadventure

I wanted to use the occasion of the resignation of a prominent climate scientist from NASA, citing the Trump administration’s attacks on climate science, to note how Trump’s foreign misadventures are ...