Amid a lot of excitement about the novel and good reviews, a lot of the discourse is (rightly) fixated on some choice sex scenes between fictionalized versions of Hillary and Bill — and, folks… it's rough.
So this is what it feels like if "Black Mirror" actually was real life.
Recent decisions have both undermined the government's legitimacy and endangered the people.
The battle for control of the Senate is on.
For decades, Ayatollah Khamenei has professed enmity with America. Now his regime is threatened from within the country.
State leaders are facing objections even as they begin lifting some restrictions.
What went wrong in the president's first real crisis — and what does it mean for the US?
Justin Amash announces that he will not run for president as a third-party candidate.
Democrats blasted the Friday-night dismissal as an assault on the rule of law.
We spoke to dozens of Joe Biden's staffers, most of whom were women, to get a broader picture of his behavior toward women throughout his career, how they see Tara Reade's allegation and whether there was evidence of a larger pattern.
While Americans are mostly on the same page about current social distancing measures, there are also signs that they increasingly disagree about where the crisis is headed.
The ongoing dispute over a 19th century cemetery in a rural valley south of Jakarta has complicated efforts to build a mega-resort set to include a Trump-branded hotel and golf course.
The state is combining results from viral and antibody tests in the same statistic. This threatens to confound America's understanding of the pandemic.
There's precedent for a temporary handoff of power to the vice president — but also potential for constitutional chaos.
Donald Trump is such a failure he can't keep his own workplace free of the coronavirus. Why does anyone trust him?
Biden's pitch to voters has been complicated by the Tara Reade's sexual assault allegation.
Jordan Goudreau, a former US Army Green Beret, led a failed coup attempt against Nicolás Maduro in partnership with Venezuela's opposition.
Meet the boog bois. These strapped, trigger-happy, so-called "autists" have embraced every sorority's favorite low-carb spiked seltzer. But is every zealot in on the joke?
Oliver also dives into the repercussions of the USPS going broke and why it's important for us to save this service, despite all our possible grievances towards it.
The economy is in free fall but Wall Street is thriving and stocks of big private equity firms are soaring dramatically higher. That tells you who investors think is the real beneficiary of the federal government's massive rescue efforts.
This is what happens when we value certain lives more than others.
In a preview of her interview with Megyn Kelly, Tara Reade, who has accused Joe Biden of sexual assault, called for him to resign and said she would be willing to tell her story under oath.
State representative Sarah Anthony says she wanted to highlight failure of policing after armed white protesters demonstrated.
The comedian had used TikTok only a handful of times before her impersonation of the president garnered 15 million views. Now it's making her rethink her routine.
After immersing myself in the worlds created by the campaigns of Joe Biden and President Trump, I found that the Republican effort was designed to keep supporters energized, inspired and sometimes angry, while the Democratic effort was genteel and gave me much less to do.
This is so spot-on that it's not even funny anymore.
In April 2019, a woman named Tara Reade reached out to me with a clear, consistent story to tell about her experience as a staffer in Joe Biden's Senate office in 1993.
The lockdowns were an expensive way to buy time to prepare massive testing and contact-tracing to lift the coronavirus quarantines. Trump's White House has wasted that time.
Long wait times, passwords sent by mail and shutdowns thwart applicants
Earthling Ed debates food ethics with a meat eater and it's an unbelievably calm, cool and collected exchange.
Even justices and lawyers are not immune to the embarrassments that often occur during virtual meetings, including, apparently, the need to use the toilet during a Supreme Court oral argument.
"Damn, those eight years weren't for nothing," the elder Obama daughter says in the Netflix documentary.
Amid a global oil collapse, the military is overpaying politically connected contractors to keep its jets fueled in Iraq.
The president's plan to abolish slavery hinged on winning a second term — and receiving a long, expensive telegram that almost didn't make it.
One volunteer filed a complaint with the House Oversight Committee outlining chronic problems, including inadequate PPE efforts and fast-tracking leads from pro-Trump allies.
Americans for Progressive Action USA filed elaborate campaign finance reports, listing vendors that were never paid and ads that never ran.
A vice-presidential pick who could show that Joe Biden is serious about winning — and then governing.
Rather than dominating the news cycle, former Senate staffer Tara Reade's recent allegation that former Vice President Joe Biden sexually assaulted her has been slow to receive coverage in many outlets.
The safest way to cast a ballot will very likely be by mail. But with opposition from the president, limited funding and time running out, will that option be available?
The country is witnessing the steady, uninterrupted intellectual and psychological decomposition of Donald Trump.
Candidates up and down the ballot are starting to look a lot like influencers as they try to campaign during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
But it's not clear whether Trump or Biden should be more concerned.
"Is it because he's smarter than you? Better educated? Made it on his own, didn't need daddy's help?"
To understand the President's path to the 2020Â election, look at what he has provided the country's executive class.
They're not old enough to buy a gun, and in some cases, they're not even old enough to drive. But their commitment to hate and violence belies their age — and the men who came before them.
The ex-veep's small digital team has a tall order going up against Donald Trump, who intuitively understands what clicks.
Though Trump remained fixated on reopening the economy, he and his administration fell far short of making that a reality.
The paradox of Vice President Mike Pence getting in trouble for failing to wear a mask is that perhaps no member of the Trump administration is more shrouded behind an invisible one of his own making.
The Trump-Biden fight is already underway, and it's totally online. What it's like to spend seven days following their whirlwind all-digital faceoff.
Tara Reade says a Senate report she filed against Joe Biden didn't refer to sexual harassment or assault.
David Axelrod: "If any credible issue been raised, you can be sure Biden would not have been the nominee."
The president announced the nomination of an inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services who would replace an acting official whose report embarrassed Trump.
Alejandro Cao de Benós can help you explore mining interests — or tell you that Kim Jong Un is in perfectly good health.
Phil Murphy discusses the state's efforts to mitigate its coronavirus infections and lower its death rate, the second-highest in the country.
The coronavirus pandemic threatens the US election in November. What are states going to do?
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden broke his silence about the sexual assault allegation made against him by former staffer Tara Reade. "I'm saying unequivocally it never never happened," Biden said.
The stakes are high for the media in the case of a sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden.
Research says that expanding mail-in voting doesn't help Democrats. So why are Republicans so afraid of it?
Biden's campaign on Thursday morning announced four co-chairs who will lead a committee to select his running mate, formalizing a process that will be one of the most critical decisions of his campaign.
Beshear apologized to a Kentucky resident called Tupac Shakur for calling him out for using what Beshear assumed was a fabricated name.
