Now that Robert Mueller has testified before two congressional committees, where does impeachment stand, and more generally, where are we in the battle to hold Donald Trump responsible ...

A neat time-lapse video of Hurricane Irma from Friday, September 8, 2017 at 3pm, to Monday, September 11 at 9am. With the election of Donald Trump, AMERICAblog’s independent journalism ...

Family-values conservative Ted Cruz is embroiled in a Twitter sex scandal, while the nation reels from the after-effects of the second major hurricane to hit the US in the past month. ...

A number of us asked a few months back why self-professed do-good corporate execs like Tesla/SpaceX CEO Elon Musk had signed up for Donald Trump’s “manufacturing council.” ...

My friend Greg Sargent at the Washington Post has a nice write-up of the latest news that Donald Trump may, or may not, be preparing to flip-flop on climate change. You’ll recall ...

He says he was joking, but a LOT of people agree with him.

In which the National Review takes us on an adventure in Microsoft Excel.

Specifics aside, its precedent will likely be huge.

Only one bad thing can exist at a time, says one of the world’s leading moral authority figures.

Rep. Lamar Smith is mad that climate data doesn’t say what he wants it to say.

This from the supposed intellectual candidate in the GOP primary.

The Pope’s preference for religious doctrine over the rule of law shows that he isn’t a public authority.

The Pope is unconstrained by the American ideological spectrum, but his priorities definitely have a place on it.