Baynard Woods

After last week's column, we got a cease-and-desist letter from the Proud Boys' lawyer, complaining that we described the "Western chauvinist"™ "far-right"™

In his tax speech in Pennsylvania last week, President Trump gave a shout out to "the great Jeffrey Lord."

A few moments before Senators Richard Burr and Mark Warner, chair and co-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee respectively, came out to present an update

Last week, the populist theocratic authoritarian former Alabama chief justice Roy Moore beat Luther Strange in a special election to fulfill the rest of Jeff

In Charlottesville, when it seemed like the Nazis had been driven from town, shortly before the terrorist attack that killed Heather Heyer, a group of

Donald Trump's pardon of former Maricopa County sheriff and top-notch torturer Joe Arpaio is, in many ways, the quintessential Trumpian act, the tarry,

One night last week, I suddenly started pouring sweat, heart pounding, as I fell off my couch. I couldn't feel my hands or my feet and my vision was narrowing,

Donald Trump's authoritarian streak has been on full display in recent weeks, nowhere more so than when talking to cops in Long Island.

I went down to the White House to see Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner give his excuses surrounding the meeting that he, Trump's son, and Paul Manafort, among

Everyone wanted to ask about two stories that had broken since the Mooch's ignominious departure.

Medea Benjamin, the firebrand activist and author of a dozen-odd books, looks surprisingly small in the midst of the lunchtime crowd jostling one another in

In police body-camera footage obtained by Democracy in Crisis, the scene in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 20, 2017 shows the war zone our nation really is right

In the early years of the Obama era, then-Senator Jim DeMint embodied a series of contradictions in the American character. The hard-jawed and bitter-faced

A swanky stretch of C Street near the Capitol in Washington D.C. is blocked by a raucous crowd dancing in front of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's

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Dozens of defendants, each sitting with their own lawyer, fill a Washington, D.C. courtroom, looking like college students wearing their nicest clothes for a

Hundreds of people lined up in the marble hallways of a Senate office building, hoping to get one of the 88 public seats in Room 216, where James Comey, the

Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, poet and provocateur Ed Sanders shouts "Out demons, out!," his arms raised in clenched fists above his head, a

I fucked up on Twitter last week when sending out a story I wrote about Kurds and other activists who were attacked by Recep Tayyip Erdogan's security forces

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It's hard to know what to make of these post-election Trump rallies. The latest one, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was intended to celebrate his first 100 days

Twenty years ago I was arrested for occupying the office of Sen. Pete Domenici in Albuquerque, N.M. The senator and one-time segregationist Dixiecrat

Kim Chase, a 52-year-old African-American woman, died on April 20 after collapsing in the Southwest District precinct, where she was brought by officers.

Kim Chase, a 52-year-old African American woman, died on April 20 after collapsing in the Southwest District precinct, where she was brought by officers.

In 2011, the great writer John Jeremiah Sullivan wrote an essay for the New York Times Magazine about, among other things, sneaking away with his old buddy to

On a cold and rainy day shortly after the election, I interviewed Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis in his office overlooking the city's downtown.

Steve Herin, a pot farmer in Pueblo, Colorado, who has won two Cannabis Cup prizes, can recall the first time he tasted good pot. As it happens, he says I

Roger Stone has two bongs shaped like his hero, Richard Nixon. "One's in the shape of his head, the other is kind of more artsy," he said. "They're both very

Not far from the White House, at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in D.C., Yayoi Kusama’s blockbuster retrospective show “Infinity Mirrors” has been

As debate on Trumpcare raged on in the House, Wisconsin Rep. Mark Pocan spoke outside the Capitol at a small

The Senate Intelligence Committee questioned three experts on Russian active measures, or propaganda, campaigns Thursday morning. One of them, Clint Watts, of

"I know you're tired and you ain't been sleeping well, uninspired, likely mad as hell," Jason Isbell sings on his new beautiful new song "Hope the High Road."

Donald Trump rode to the White House on a wave of widespread distrust of institutions, a cynical view that sees truth merely as a discourse of power. In that,

After the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on Russian interference with the U.S. election, I had to renew my press credential

Like the rest of the country, Congress has gone crazy. “The idea that Russia could come in and interfere with our election, all of us should be going berserk,”

It is snowing in Washington—strange in early March after an insanely warm winter, but nothing compared to the cold many of the activists and tr

Republicans collectively twisted themselves into knots Monday in order to ignore what was really happening in the hearings on Russian hacking of the election

His Justice Department will likely ignore the epidemic of African-Americans killed by police, and he is against consent decrees, legal agreements between the DOJ and local police departments with patterns and practices of abuse or constitutional violations, intended to curb the unchecked power of local cops.

On Monday, Donald Trump signed an executive order christened a "comprehensive plan for reorganizing the executive branch." The order directs the "Director of

Joe Flynn, the brother of former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn, wrote this letter in response to our story "From Skater to Hater: Mike Flynn's Wipe Out."

Unlike Milo Yiannopoulos, who lost everything at once, retired Gen. Michael Flynn wasn't entirely ruin

Steve Bannon, the schlubby alt-right White House advisor who wants to destroy the state, was the clear star of the first day of the conservative circle jerk

As Democrats choose the new chair of the Democratic National Committee this weekend, the worst thing

Jim Jarmusch's thorough adaptation of William Carlos Williams' poetic motto "No ideas but in things," should be no surprise. After all, the film, lik

Senators shuffle by the desk on Tuesday to cast their votes on the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as secr

Donald Trump, Russian sex workers, and Vladimir Putin aren't the only ones who need to worry about piss.

The teams of President Trump's temporary appointees laying the groundwork for taking over and remaking federal agencies refer to themselves as "beach

From the look and sound of things at Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport and Dulles Internati