• 'Terror into votes': Expert examines Trump’s 'deep investment in promoting fear'

    Last month, Republican nominee Donald Trump told a Pennsylvania rally crown that if President Joe Biden wins the November election, "our country is going to be destroyed."This declaration was one of many the ex-president has made to successfully stoke fear among his faithful MAGA supporters.In a Tuesday, May 7 op-ed published by The Atlantic, staff writer Peter Wehner emphasizes the fact that "Trump and his supporters have a deep investment in promoting fear," submitting that, for many of the...

  • What’s happening at Tesla? Here’s what experts think.

    Can things be turned around at Tesla, or is this the beginning of the end?

  • What It’s Really Like Inside Trump’s Trial

    POLITICO reporters take you inside the courtroom that could decide the 2024 election.

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    Eric Trump’s court presence at Donald Trump’s trial didn’t help his dad’s ‘family man’ strategy

    Especially since Jan. 6, much has been written about the call-and-response dynamic between Donald Trump and his supporters. But since the beginning of the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal trial against Trump last month, a different feedback loop has been on display: After the media makes observations of the former president’s courtroom arrangements and behavior, Team Trump appears to make noticeable tweaks in response. Don’t believe me? After the press noted that Trump was sitting alone...

  • President Joe Biden says he’s ‘happy to debate’ Donald Trump. Trump says he’s ready to go

    By AAMER MADHANI (The Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden said Friday that he is willing to debate his presumptive Republican opponent, Donald Trump, later this fall – his most definitive comment yet on the issue. The comment came during an interview with the Sirius XM radio host Howard Stern, who asked […]

  • Do men really sleep better than women? Experts explain

    The long-standing lack of inclusion of women in biomedical and behavioral research has been a hindrance to sleep study.

  • Greg Abbott’s border policies boost Trump in Texas

    Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R-TX) border security policies are popular among Texas voters, including Texas Hispanics, and help explain former President Donald Trump’s double-digit lead over President Joe Biden in the Lone Star State. For the past three years, the Abbott administration has repeatedly clashed with the Biden administration over immigration and border security. This conflict […]

  • Will Trump get full presidential immunity? Law expert explains

    Former President Donald Trump is in the midst of multiple legal battles, but everything could change if the Supreme Court rules that he has full presidential immunity. “The Court is a lot more concerned about the presidency than about Trump,” National Review contributing author Andrew McCarthy tells Glenn Beck. “It’s an important point to make because a lot of the coverage has been this hysteria over whether the Trump-packed Supreme Court is in the tank for him and they’re going to get rid...

  • Dark shift in Trump’s tone is 'how fascists campaign': expert

    Former President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign speeches have been largely focused on highlighting differences between his MAGA movement and his political opponents, whom he accuses of destroying the country and harboring values antithetical to American ideals. One political expert recently told the New York Times that this is a key example of the ex-president's embrace of fascism as a political strategy.In a lengthy Saturday article in the New York Times magazine, author Charles Homans explored...

  • Legal experts explain 'darker' reason Trump's 'surrogate daughter' cried on stand at trial

    Former Donald Trump aide Hope Hicks wept in court on Friday as she testified in the criminal case against someone she still deeply respects, and some legal experts have suggested what those tears really mean.MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin, a former litigator, appeared in court and saw Hicks crying. She characterized it this way:"We just took a brief break because the most composed woman in Trump’s orbit — Hope Hicks — broke down on the stand right as cross examination started. Why would Hicks...

  • ICYMI: Kristi Noem’s dog story gets even worse, how a Trump conviction could really hurt

    Donald Trump's first criminal trial kicks off third week Another day, another chance Trump goes to prison. Believe it or not, Howard Dean is thinking comeback Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! New poll suggests a Trump conviction could cost him votes So voters don’t actually want to elect a criminal?  Cartoon: Dogged by controversy There are no words. Kristi Noem's story of murdering her dog keeps getting worse She’s still digging, but the hole isn’t big enough for all the bodies. If you love dogs,...

  • 'Not going to happen': Ex-FBI agent explains why Supreme Court 'won't bite' Trump's bait

    A lot of legal experts appeared worried after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Donald Trump's immunity case, but there's no way the right-wing justices are going to buy all of what the former president is selling, a former FBI agent said on Saturday.Former FBI special agent Asha Rangappa weighed in on the Supreme Court hearing, pointing out the novelty of Trump's absolute presidential immunity argument that would see an ex-president avoid any charges as long as they weren't convicted at...