Philip Bump
MS NOW Contributor
Philip Bump is a data journalist and creator of the “How To Read This Chart” newsletter. He spent 11 years at The Washington Post and is the author of the 2023 book “The Aftermath.”
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Opinion
Trump’s many, many promises fall apart almost immediately — if you look closely
The president made a lot of promises and pledges that never came to fruition in year one of his second term — and never will.
Opinion
Trump’s Minnesota threats suggest he may be close to unleashing what he’s always wanted
President Trump suggested on Thursday that unrest in Minneapolis might prompt him to invoke the Insurrection Act. He’s wanted to do that for years.
Opinion
Trump’s NY Times interview was full of notable moments. His white grievance rhetoric stands out.
President Donald Trump said the civil rights movement led to white people being “very badly treated.” It is impossible to overstate how important this idea is to his politics.
Opinion
ICE’s massive budget increase was a lose-lose. Here’s how much Americans could have gained instead.
But what if, instead, we diverted that money away from a punitive effort to uproot immigrants and toward assistance for Americans in need?
Opinion
Kristi Noem’s response to the killing of Renee Nicole Good sums up why her agency has lost all credibility
The Department of Homeland Security and its leader have an honesty problem — and the numbers prove it.
Opinion
Trump would likely prefer we pay no attention to why he really covets Greenland
Trump likes to pretend climate change doesn’t exist. But the warming climate has changed the options of what might be possible to explore, and exploit, in Greenland.
Opinion
I read the White House’s disgraceful new revisionist ‘history’ of Jan. 6 so you don’t have to
The site is an effort to get people to look for wrongdoers everywhere except where the wrong was done: by Donald Trump himself.
Opinion
What decades of analysis reveal about the ignorance behind Trump’s rise
We have reverted from acting on what we know to acting on what we think.
Opinion
America isn’t the ‘hottest country’ even by one of Trump’s favorite metrics
The president’s stock market hyperbole hides the truth about his first year back in office.
Opinion
There’s a reason Trump doesn’t want to talk about inflation anymore
A review of nearly 170 items tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows where inflation has hit hardest in 2025.