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Sarah Huckabee Sanders

  1. politics
    Harris Addresses Childless Jab During Call Her Daddy AppearanceSarah Huckabee Sanders said the vice-president has nothing to keep her humble. Harris responded that many women “are not aspiring to be humble.”
    By Nia Prater
  2. life after roe
    The ‘Pro-Life’ Policies Hurting WomenA Washington Post story on maternal health in Arkansas makes the case for reproductive justice.
    By Sarah Jones
  3. early and often
    Sarah Huckabee Sanders Risks Trump’s Wrath With 2024 NeutralityTrump thinks his former press secretary owes him everything. The governor seems to feel she’s earned her freedom and a long post-Trump career.
    By Ed Kilgore
  4. life after roe
    Republicans Give Arkansas State Capitol a ‘Monument to the Unborn’Now that the Confederate memorials are coming down, there’s room for new monuments to reactionary laws and politics.
    By Ed Kilgore
  5. early and often
    The GOP’s Heckles Were a Gift to Biden’s Reelection CampaignRepublicans aired a primetime advertisement for their own extremity.
    By Eric Levitz
  6. covid-19 vaccine
    Sarah Huckabee Sanders Deploys Big Lie to Boost VaccinationsThe gubernatorial candidate is encouraging Arkansans to get their “Trump vaccine” and blaming the left for sowing distrust of the COVID jab.
    By Ed Kilgore
  7. vision 2024
    Is Sarah Huckabee Sanders Already Auditioning for Vice-President?It’s one theory for why she’s running a savage culture-war campaign for Arkansas governor. The others are scarier.
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. 2021 elections
    MAGA + Money Wins Virginia’s GOP Gubernatorial Race“Christian outsider businessman” Glenn Youngkin has the dough to keep things interesting against Democrat Terry McAuliffe.
    By Ed Kilgore
  9. republican party
    Is ‘Anti-Wokeness’ the New Ideology of the Republican Party?The sudden GOP obsession with “cancellation” suggests old-school conservatism may be displaced by cultural extremism that goes beyond Trump.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. 2022 midterms
    Sarah Huckabee Sanders to Announce Run for Arkansas Governor: ReportWhile the position of White House press secretary isn’t often used as a platform for higher office, Sanders has been long expected to run in 2022.
    By Matt Stieb
  11. fox news news
    Sarah Sanders Passes Through the Fox News–White House Revolving DoorThe former White House press secretary will feel very at home at Fox News.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  12. let them eat steak
    Reporters Shouldn’t Toast Sarah Huckabee Sanders for Civility’s SakeJournalists said sharing a farewell drink was was the decent thing to do. But if there was ever a time to reject business as usual, it should be now.
    By Sarah Jones
  13. revolving door
    Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s Replacement, Stephanie Grisham, Should Fit Right InThe new press secretary is used to criticizing reporters, she’ll be doing three jobs, and she has already been accused of violating the Hatch Act.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  14. the national circus
    Frank Rich: Biden, McConnell and the Shadows of SegregationFallacious comments from the Senate Majority Leader and the Democratic frontrunner show why a reparations bill is so urgent.
    By Frank Rich
  15. sarah huckabee sanders
    Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Governor of Arkansas? It’s Possible.If the daughter of former governor Mike Huckabee does run for his old job, as Trump suggested, she’d be formidable but not necessarily unbeatable.
    By Ed Kilgore
  16. sarah huckabee sanders
    Highlights From Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s Career of DeflectionTrump announced that Sanders will leave at the end of June. Here’s a look back at some of the White House press secretary’s more brazen moments.
    By Matt Stieb
  17. mueller time
    Sarah Sanders Told Mueller She Lied to Media About ComeyShe told investigators that a remark about James Comey’s termination was based on nothing, later calling it a “slip of the tongue.”
    By Lisa Ryan
  18. the white house
    My Private Oval Office Press Conference With Trump, Pence, Pompeo, and KellyThe president really wanted to convince me that he isn’t going to fire his chief of staff, John Kelly. He didn’t — but, wow…
    By Olivia Nuzzi
  19. politics chat
    Does a Tape of Donald Trump Saying the N-word Exist? Would It Matter If It Did?Four New York staffers discuss the political impact of Omarosa’s allegation that a recording of Donald Trump using an anti-black racial slur exists.
    By Ezekiel Kweku, Jonathan Chait, and Ed Kilgore
  20. lies
    Sarah Sanders’s Correction of Jobs Stats Felt Rare Because It WasThe White House is fond of demanding corrections, but it doesn’t often issue them.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  21. the national interest
    White House ‘Can’t Guarantee’ There’s No Tape of Trump Saying N-WordAn incredibly revealing lack of confidence by Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
    By Jonathan Chait
  22. White House: Trump isn’t Not Obstructing Justice, He’s ‘Fighting Back.’Tomato, tomahto. The White House also offered a novel defense for Trump’s apparent unfamiliarity with grocery shopping.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  23. White House Pointlessly Threatens to Revoke Security Clearances From CriticsSome don’t actually have them, and the rest aren’t using them, but whatever.
    By Ed Kilgore
  24. Alan Dershowitz’s War With Martha’s Vineyard Drags OnThe frequent defender of Donald Trump against Robert Mueller is now calling himself a victim of “McCarthyism” from his summer friends.
    By Ed Kilgore
  25. Frank Rich: Rot on the Right, Green Shoots on the LeftYes, Anthony Kennedy’s retirement will make a right-wing Supreme Court even more extreme. But there is hope yet in American politics.
    By Frank Rich
  26. Nancy Pelosi Rebukes Maxine Waters for Endorsing Harassment of Trump OfficialsThis is probably not a conversation Democratic leaders want to be having.
    By Benjamin Hart
  27. the national interest
    Trump’s Attempt to Bully Restaurant Is Going to Backfire HilariouslyThe president thinks the way to drive a small restaurant out of business is to polarize national opinion about it.
    By Jonathan Chait
  28. Sarah Huckabee Sanders Was Asked to Leave Restaurant Over Her Work for TrumpAs outrage over the migrant family separations continues, three Trump officials have faced public backlash while dining out in less than a week.
    By Chas Danner
  29. Inside the Disastrous White House Briefing on Trump’s Child-Separation PolicyHomeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen tried to defend the separation of families at the border, but wound up making the uproar even worse.
    By Olivia Nuzzi
  30. Ryan Offers to ‘Fix’ Family Separations on Border in His Doomed Immigration BillSince Ryan can’t actually enact immigration legislation, he might as well use it to offer cover to Trump on the nasty situation on the border.
    By Ed Kilgore
  31. Sarah Sanders, Raj Shah Latest Trump Staffers Said to Be Eyeing ExitIt seems like everyone in the Trump administration is thinking about quitting (except for Scott Pruitt).
    By Margaret Hartmann
  32. taxonomy
    What 22 Trump Staffers Looked Like in High SchoolWho would have thought they’d one day work for the 45th president of the United States?
    By Nick Tabor and James D. Walsh
  33. Following Trump’s Lead, White House Will Not Apologize for McCain ‘Dying’ RemarkThough Kelly Sadler told Meghan McCain that she’d offer a public mea culpa, and even Republicans are criticizing the White House.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  34. Five White House Staffers Leak Meeting About White House LeaksPresumably there will also be leaks from the meeting about stopping the leaks from leak meetings.
    By Benjamin Hart
  35. oops
    Iran Gains, Then Loses, Nuclear Weapons Program in White House ‘Clerical Error’The White House said Iran has, rather than had, a nuclear weapons program in what might be its most impressive typo yet.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  36. White House: Trump Believes He Has the Power to Fire MuellerMost legal experts believe that only Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein can end the special counsel’s investigation. Trump thinks otherwise.
    By Eric Levitz
  37. Trump to Stay in and Wash His Hair Instead of Attending WHCDSarah Huckabee Sanders will attend the event in his place.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  38. The Least Inspiring MLK Tribute of All TimeIf you were moved by Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s flat, hurried quotation from King, you are easily moved.
    By Ed Kilgore
  39. Trump Aides Galled by Criticism of Their Awful Rob Porter ResponseAs Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused to provide details on the alleged abuser’s exit, Kellyanne Conway quibbled over an essay by his ex-wife.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  40. Trump Picks Up Shutdown Threat Over Immigration After Democrats Drop ItLook who’s threatening to shut down the government now.
    By Ed Kilgore
  41. Trump Didn’t Unify the FBI by Firing Comey. He Demoralized It.Newly released internal FBI emails cut against Trump’s characterization of the agency’s morale.
    By Ed Kilgore
  42. Trump and Alabama GOP Stick With an Embattled Roy MooreThe state GOP could have kept Moore from getting any votes, and Trump could have possibly talked him into quitting. But neither is getting in his way.
    By Ed Kilgore
  43. select all
    Sarah Huckabee Sanders Experiences the Perils of Wearing GreenVideo editors are on the lookout.
    By Brian Feldman
  44. Anthony Scaramucci Makes Debut, Names Sanders New Press Secretary“The Mooch” Offered Lots Of Praise For Trump
    By Benjamin Hart
  45. Trump Is Making It Too Easy to Compare Him to NixonIt’s an accumulation of data points.
    By Olivia Nuzzi
  46. oh pawlease
    A Huckabee Signs Up With the Pawlenty CampaignNot Mike. Mike’s daughter.
    By Dan Amira