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Kristi Noem's proud MAGA bimbo act builds on the legacy of Sarah Palin

The GOP adores a woman who plays dumb to build up the man she's serving

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Amanda Marcotte

The "money for Texas" amendment: GOP budget could reward Greg Abbott for MAGA border stunts

Red states could reap billions in federal aid for their efforts to "enforce the immigration laws" under Joe Biden

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Russell Payne

Decades on, SSRIs remain mired in mystery and debate

Experts worry MAHA could wage a war on SSRIs. But some researchers have long questioned the drugs’ efficacy

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Frieda Klotz

Toddler finance: Gen Z parents are starting money lessons before kindergarten

Younger parents are teaching personal finance to their kids much earlier than boomers did

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Daria Solovieva

Strawberries are at their peak — here’s what to make

From savory to sweet, these eight recipes are guaranteed to satisfy your strawberry cravings this season

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Joy Saha

Republicans are forcing Trump to touch the third rail

Republicans are raising the deficit so high that it may trigger sequestration and mandatory cuts to Medicare

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Heather Digby Parton

Republicans expand "Trump bucks" scheme with “MAGA savings accounts”

In his role as president and political gameshow host, Donald Trump loves to give away money (or at least pretend to) as he makes "amazing deals."...

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Chauncey Devega

A tax cut for the "merely wealthy" finds bipartisan support in Congress

Self-described moderates in the GOP are rallying behind a policy favored by centrists of both parties and which economists consider a major tax cut...

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Russell Payne

Trump’s border war won’t stop overdoses. In fact, it might make things worse

I’m an addiction and emergency medicine physician in southern Arizona, a region highly politicized by the war on drugs. Both my home and the...

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Melody Glenn

Forgetting Joe Biden

Donald Trump has lost it — but then again, I don’t think he ever had it. The president has become dramatically unhinged on several occasions...

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Brian Karem

"Need to be defeated": GOP Rep. Fine says Gaza should be "nuked" in response to DC shooting

The Florida congressman has been a reliable source of bloodlust since Oct. 7

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Alex Galbraith

"Restore the DOE": Federal judge blocks Trump's attempt to dismantle Department of Education

The ruling ordered the Trump admin to reinstate hundreds of workers targeted in a mass layoff

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Alex Galbraith

Israeli embassy staffers were likely "targeted" by alleged shooter who yelled "free Palestine"

Two employees of the Israeli embassy were shot and killed in Washington, D.C. Wednesday evening as they were leaving an event at a Jewish museum....

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Tatyana Tandanpolie

There's more film and television for you to watch than ever before — good luck finding it

A couple of weeks ago, while out for drinks with a friend, I casually mentioned that I was looking forward to seeing the new Wes Anderson movie,...

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Coleman Spilde

Mahmoud Khalil holds infant son for first time, over objections from Trump administration

Mahmoud Khalil, the legal U.S. resident detained by the Trump administration over his pro-Palestine activism, was able to hold his infant son for...

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Charles R. Davis

Bro-country has curdled

Morgan Wallen is a townie.  That might seem an odd thing to say about the arguable face of country music — a man whose albums are guaranteed chart-...

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Alex Galbraith

You snooze, you win: Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" almost failed thanks to congressman's catnap

The tax cut and spending bill passed by the thinnest possible margin after one GOPer missed the vote to saw logs

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Alex Galbraith

Tofu is best when you let it stop pretending

The first time I tried tofu was back in middle school, when I first went vegetarian for animal rights reasons.  On a particularly scalding summer...

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Michael La Corte

Deep sea mining threatens the unknown

When the submarine plunged to about 1,500 meters below sea level, ecologist Jeff Drazen asked the pilots to cut the strobe lights that had been...

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Elizabeth Hlavinka

"You work for us": Neil Young trashes Trump, supports Springsteen in fired-up screed

The Boss didn't call for aid, but it's good to know that Bruce Springsteen has Neil Young's axe in the ongoing war between musicians and President...

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Alex Galbraith

"Don't have a plane to give you": Trump pushes "white genocide" claims in chaotic Ramaphosa meeting

President Donald Trump derailed a meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday, halting their talk in the Oval Office to play...

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Alex Galbraith

What Judy Blume's "Forever" still gives us — and the teen dramas that followed her won't

Remembering Judy Blume’s books without replaying our own childhood memories might be impossible. This is mainly a guess, formulated after reading...

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Melanie Mcfarland

DOGE deflated: Elon Musk has lost his political power

Elon, we hardly knew ye. After spending the last six months stuck to Donald Trump like quick-drying cement, Elon Musk is backing away from politics...

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Heather Digby Parton

On Biden’s prostate cancer and dealing with disease “down there”

A diagnosis of prostate cancer is a kick in the proverbial slats. Really. You don’t want to hear the word, “cancer,” at all…anytime…ever....

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Lucian K. Truscott Iv

Multi-level marketing is a scam — here's why people fall for it

Most Americans have been aware for some time that multi-level marketing schemes are bad — either through recent books or documentaries like...

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Daria Solovieva

Gerry Connolly, top Democrat on House Oversight Committee, dies of cancer at 75

Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., died Wednesday at the age of 75, his family said in a statement. The veteran lawmaker, who served as the top Democrat...

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Charles R. Davis

"Wasting our time": Democrats dismiss Trump impeachment — revealing their cynicism

The president of the United States is engaged in open and shameless corruption, defying the plain language of the Constitution and glibly defying...

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Charles R. Davis

Republicans want to make it easier to carry a gun almost anywhere

In the 2024 election, pro-gun advocates coalesced around a primary request for President Donald Trump’s second administration: a dramatic loosening...

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Russell Payne

Don’t fight uncertainty — embrace it

It's hard to know what's real, it turns out. Sometimes things are obvious. When it’s raining, there’s no doubt about whether it’s raining or not. A...

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Clayton Dalton

The next stage of our democracy crisis: competitive authoritarianism

The mainstream American news media have failed as an institution to properly confront the country’s worsening democracy crisis in the Age of Trump....

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Chauncey Devega

Harvard draws the legal blueprint for how to fight back Trump's revenge campaign

The legal system in this country has long prided itself on supplying justice in a measured way. Government officials are required to abide by an...

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Austin Sarat

The last great "Housewives" trip: "Scary Island" and the end of RHONY’s Golden Age

If you Googled the words “‘Housewives’ trip” 15 years ago, the search results were probably more likely to return a sketchy link to some...

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Coleman Spilde

"She saw something I did not": Tapper apologized to Lara Trump over Biden decline dust-up

Jake Tapper offered a mea culpa to Lara Trump on Tuesday, sharing that he was wrong to berate the Fox News host in a tense 2020 exchange about...

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Alex Galbraith

Harvard draws the legal blueprint for how to fight back Trump’s revenge campaign

Trump and his subordinates are using every lever at their disposal to make the university pay for disobedience

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Austin Sarat

"It's the right to remove people": Noem whiffs when Congress asks her to define habeas corpus

Weary defendants have been told time and time again that ignorance of the law is no excuse, but that old adage has never stopped Kristi Noem.  The...

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Alex Galbraith

RFK Jr. is laundering Christian right views as MAHA

At first blush, Casey Means seems like the last person Christian conservatives would want as the Surgeon General. Donald Trump's new pick for the...

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Amanda Marcotte

How the Supreme Court enabled Donald Trump’s mile high bribe

Reports of Donald Trump’s new flying palace — a luxury jet gifted by Qatar — are all over the news. A foreign government gifting a plane to the...

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Leah Litman

"The Last of Us" helps us grieve by leaving nothing unsaid

We can never fully prepare for the death of someone we care about. Nobody tells you, or if they do, they can’t fully convey what that means. Even...

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Melanie Mcfarland

Trump is trying to COVID hack the economy

During the COVID pandemic, Donald Trump said many unforgettable things. Perhaps his most memorable line came during his daily press "briefing,"...

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Heather Digby Parton

"Hurry Up Tomorrow" is The Weeknd's egomaniacal cinematic disaster

Depending on who you ask, Abel Tesfaye — better known by his stage name, The Weeknd — is either a poetic musical genius or a drug-addled lothario....

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Coleman Spilde

In praise of the maximalist salad

When chef Roy Choi set out to make the perfect salad for people who hate salad, he knew exactly the feeling he was chasing: that moment when you’re...

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Ashlie D. Stevens

"I'm in the KKK now": Mike Myers meets "Kanye West" 20 years after Katrina benefit on "SNL"

Mike Myers has been a regular guest star on "Saturday Night Live" throughout the sketch show's 50th season, taking on the role of Donald Trump...

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Alex Galbraith

Biden diagnosed with "aggressive" prostate cancer

Former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with an "aggressive form" of prostate cancer on Friday.  The 82-year-old Biden went in for an evaluation...

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Alex Galbraith