Matt Purple

If the Europeans want to check our power — rather than just complain about it — they need to show that they can

I had been receiving Trump’s fundraising emails for years and certainly the language had always been insistent. But this was a new level of aggression

A certain post-apocalyptic milieu prevails throughout the nation’s capital

You gotta fight for your HIPAA right to party…

The Most Powerful Men on Earth Emeritus have been quarreling out loud over whether they could have decapitated the US government

The late defense secretary is a scapegoat for the Establishment

Biden’s views on guns can seem…schizophrenic

‘Rush Limbaugh on decaf’ doesn’t seem right for this political moment

What if the paranoid style in American politics is sometimes correct?

Stewart became a prominent progressive voice, a pundit screaming into the void

Men can be just as totalitarian, petty, shrewish, haranguing and busybodied as women

Americans have an obligation to make California elections as wildly entertaining as possible

Politics has grown more zero-sum and Machiavellian