In the final hours before polls open on Election Day, a preponderance of hard data going back at least to the 2018 midterms is indicating strongly that President Trump is in for an enormous beatdown. Not a historic landslide, but it’s also not going to be close. Long-term polling trends…

Less than a week out from Election Day, after Biden has led Trump consistently all year in nationwide and state-by-state polls, Democrats and Republicans who should know better are still trying to tell us the race is much closer than it looks. …

On the night of Thursday, October 1st, 2020, Americans across the country went to bed in the ordinary world — the one exhibiting the barely tolerable levels of insanity to which we’ve all grown accustomed in the past four years. On the morning of Friday, October 2nd, they woke up…

In 2020, the country that likes to think of itself as the greatest democracy in human history is led by a President who lost the popular vote. In the Senate, Republicans control 53% of the votes but they represent 48% of the population. This President who was rejected by a…

We all knew it was coming. We didn’t know what or how, but there had to be something. In America, we know the type. The most outspoken, judgmental, moralistic leaders in the evangelical movement always seem to be the ones with the most embarrassing sexual secrets. Jimmy Swaggart. Paul Crouch…

On the same day that the World Health Organization warned that America could become the next epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, President Trump suggested we should all get ready to go back to work in less than three weeks from now. Said he wanted “packed churches” on Easter Sunday, even. …

With more than 100 million Americans under lockdown, and the number of confirmed coronavirus cases nationwide rocketing from 4,000 to more than 40,000 in a single week, it’s beginning to be a moment-by-moment struggle not to give in to fear. We haven’t had any good news yet; the news we’ve…

Maybe with the exception of Apple, I have a stronger love-hate relationship with Costco than any other American business. Nobody else has their incredible deals on so many different brand-name products — but most places don’t charge an admission fee to go shopping, either. Nobody else beats them for gas…

As the coronavirus frenzy reaches a fever pitch, there have been plenty of hot takes about Trump’s mismanagement, and how it’s sinking his chances of reelection. His approval numbers related to the epidemic are plummeting faster than the stock market. [Update: One poll did show his numbers going up significantly…