3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (670+ words) Will the Federal Communications Commission ever actually punish Disney or CBS for FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s belief that those networks are in violation of the agency’s “equal time” rule? We may never know the answer to that question, and that…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1506+ words) This story was originally reported by Amanda Becker of The 19th. Meet Amanda and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. How many women does your employer have in management positions compared to industry peers? Are a retail…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (215+ words) Readers of The Brief are likely aware of what’s going on with Missouri’s election maps, and of a character at the center of that drama, secretary of state Denny Hoskins. But as the chaos around a gambit he pulled off…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (342+ words) The president framed this extraordinary offer as a result of unprecedented “tremendous economic success.” “In history we’ve never had anything like what’s happening,” Trump said. In keeping with the effort to paint his policies as actually good for the economy,…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (265+ words) It also narrows the list of immigrants the Census Bureau would classify as U.S. residents, as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to wield the decennial population count to benefit Republican states. The administration is using the rule to remake how the…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (291+ words) A set of dueling federal court decisions sets the stage for the kind of legal flurry we can expect between now and the midterms. As Kate Riga reported for TPM, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who oversees appeals for the federal judicial…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (240+ words) The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied Missouri Republicans’ attempt to jam through a new gerrymander that would leave Democrats with only one House seat to their seven. Minutes later, U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark — a Trump appointee — handed down a…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (796+ words) The Trump administration used a tool created in the early days of the War on Terror to obtain financial information without a search warrant as part of its broad crackdown on opposition groups, new documents show. In newly released emails,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (239+ words) U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani on Wednesday lifted an injunction that was the last bulwark against President Donald Trump’s order to let the federal government take over large parts of voting by mail. But the executive order is unlikely to remain…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (197+ words) Talking Points Memo Trump’s Idiotic Trade War Is a Bigger Political Opening Than You Think As a general matter, people who write about or strategize about politics greatly overestimate our collective ability to shape how an election will play out,…...