Philip Bump
Washington Post
New York, NY, United States
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Past articles by Philip:
The small, telling differences in how voters view Trump and Biden
The two likely 2024 candidates are viewed as similarly — but not equivalently — corrupt or mentally unfit. → Read More
Trumpworld is still figuring out the Hunter Biden indictment conspiracy
Is it that Democrats want President Biden to step down? Or is it that this is still a way to protect the president? We’ll see! → Read More
Indictment of Republican informant Gal Luft becomes conspiracy fodder
Anyone offering criticism of President Biden instantly becomes credible on the right. → Read More
Sen. Tommy Tuberville refuses to understand white nationalism
"I call them Americans," the Alabama senator says of white nationalists in the military. → Read More
Can you win the Midwest without knowing about Dairy Queen?
Former president Donald Trump, popular in the Midwest, doesn't know what a Blizzard is. → Read More
Elon Musk and the dominance space
Twitter is now a place centered on performative dominance. → Read More
Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie say it's too early to call GOP race. But is it?
It is still early in the Republican presidential primary cycle. But this is not a 2016-type situation. → Read More
Threads arrival shows social media is fragmenting like traditional media did
Social media is fragmenting in the same way that the media itself once did. → Read More
The privilege of shrugging at Jan. 6 violence
There are two views of what happened at the Capitol, informed by perceived limits of the role of police. → Read More
Climate denialism has burnt to a crisp
In an unusually hot year, the old denials of global warming are largely absent. → Read More
Republicans are suddenly sharply pessimistic about democracy
Since 1977, Americans have gotten more dissatisfied with democracy — but Republican dissatisfaction soared in the past year. → Read More
DeSantis targets a significant primary demographic: Insecure men
The DeSantis campaign's use of an anti-LGBTQ ad is partly about getting attention and partly about appealing to a particular insecurity. → Read More
Who’s been looped into Jack Smith’s election investigation
Since November, dozens of people have been subpoenaed or offered testimony in the special counsel's probe of the aftermath of the 2020 contest. → Read More
It’s useful to remember how little a lot of Americans know about politics
A third of the country, for example, thinks most Supreme Court justices were appointed by Democratic presidents. → Read More
A deeply ironic reinforcement of right-wing misinformation
A lawsuit casting efforts to stamp out misinformation as government suppression of free speech includes misinformation of its own. → Read More
DeSantis can't be more conservative than Trump, when Trump defines 'conservative'
DeSantis is running as the "other Trump," not the "anti-Trump." → Read More
The off-campus imposition on collegiate speech
College provides a platform for some young conservatives to prepare for their careers — just not in the way intended. → Read More
If anyone should know that primary voters change their minds, it’s Trump
Eight years and one month ago, nearly 6 in 10 Republicans said they'd never vote for him. → Read More
Parents aren’t as conservative as the right likes to think
Or, at least, parents of actual children aren't. → Read More
Buttigieg calls Supreme Court ‘out of step’ on LGBTQ issues. He's right.
The web-design case the Supreme Court just ruled on was framed as a free-speech issue. But it reflected a minority, right-wing position on the subject. → Read More