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A Complete List of Everything We Know Kevin McCarthy Gave Up to Be Speaker

Here’s what he promised his detractors.

SCOTUS Unanimously Sides With Death Row Inmate Over an Extreme Texas Court

Even this conservative supermajority understood that a forensic lab’s egregious misconduct demands a new trial.

Tesla Has a Major Problem That’s Bigger Than Elon Musk’s Twitter Hijinks

Fixing it will take more than him tweeting less (though that certainly wouldn’t hurt).

Kevin McCarthy Tricked the Freedom Caucus Into Thinking They Have a Deal on Defense Spending

Huge defense budgets are really popular right now. Nobody is going to cut these sums.

My Co-Worker Says I’m to Blame if She Loses Her Job

I regret the promise I made.

Help! I Assumed My Girlfriend’s Bad Attitude Meant She Was on Her Period. Yikes.

It was supposed to be a nice gesture.

The New England Patriots Are Not Special Anymore

Bill Belichick’s longtime goliath of the NFL is just another team now.

The Habit America’s Historians Just Can’t Give Up

If fact-checking could fix us, we’d be a utopia by now.

My Careful Plan to Please My Partner Just Went Horribly Wrong

I really thought he’d love this!

The Real Problem with John Roberts’ 2022 Report on the Court

The Chief Justice is burying his head in the sand. when it comes to the biggest problem with SCOTUS.