Steven Levitsky, old friend of the newsletter and author of “How Democracies Die,” recently argued that the US has “crossed ...

One of the peculiarities of being an American is the widespread national conviction that America is the best at everything.

Paxton only defeated incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in the GOP primary because of President Trump’s support — yet Trump can ...

On August 8, 2022, after more than a year of trying to cajole Donald Trump into voluntarily returning government property he’d stolen, FBI agents executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago at a time when ...

The man scheduled to be executed on December 3 is Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in a horrific mass shooting ...

President Trump has made no secret of how much he hates the Somali people. But even for him, his latest tirade plumbs new depths of ugliness. Make no mistake: his post from last Thursday is actively ...

One of the major reasons for that, Greg Sargent of the New Republic told us, is that the independent voters who decide ...

This week’s episode of the PN Pod features me and Paul discussing Pete Hegseth’s barbaric announcement about making public executions great again, the sad spectacle of Trump’s midterm rally tour, and ...

To commemorate PN’s 5th anniversary, this week we’re offering paid subscriptions at the special yearly rate of $40 (or about 16¢ per edition). This newsletter is only possible thanks to the support of ...