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How the Epstein Files Reveal the Final Failure of QAnon

How the Epstein Files Reveal the Final Failure of QAnon

This story is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis.  The most enduring conspiracy theories often contain kernels of truth,...

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Mike Rothschild

Inside Plastic Executives’ Late-20th-Century Campaign to Blame Consumers for Their Industry’s Waste

Inside Plastic Executives’ Late-20th-Century Campaign to Blame Consumers for Their Industry’s Waste

This TPM Cafe article is an excerpt from PLASTIC INC.: The Secret History and Shocking Future of Big Oil’s Biggest Bet by Beth Gardiner. In 1969,...

04.03.2026 2

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Beth Gardiner

Republican-Appointed Texas Judge Endorses ‘Vote Harvesting’ Conspiracy Amid Primaries

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. Last Tuesday, early...

23.02.2026 150

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Madiba K. Dennie

You Don’t Need to Be Found Guilty for the Justice System to Ruin Your Life

This excerpt is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis.  A central question at the center of our political moment is what...

19.02.2026 100

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Emily Galvin Almanza

Career Politicians Have Failed Us. Here’s What Self-Governance Could Look Like.

This excerpt is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis.  Democracy’s most radical, yet purist premise is people’s power as...

17.02.2026 2

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Hélène Landemore

Why Are Senate Democrats Still Voting to Confirm Trump’s Judicial Nominees?

On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held its first in a series of eight “Arctic Frost Accountability” subcommittee hearings, which are...

13.02.2026 250

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Patrick McNeil

Congress, Don’t Give DHS a Blank Check to Undermine Our Local Economies

This isn't just immigration enforcement. This is economic sabotage wrapped in racism.

13.02.2026 70

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Sean Sherman

DHS Was Built to Come After People Like Me. Now, They Are After All of Us.

11.02.2026 4

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Faisal Al-Juburi

Behind the Misguided Bipartisan Push to Muzzle Free Speech Online 

09.02.2026 8

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Aaron Mackey

Donald Trump Became President By Appealing to Conspiracy Theorists — Now He’s Driving Them Away

05.02.2026 7

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Mike Rothschild

Republicans Love Supreme Court Expansion When It Gets Them What They Want

04.02.2026 6

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Steve Kennedy

What an Antifa Activist Learned While Undercover With Patriot Front

03.02.2026 5

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Christopher Mathias

The Originalists Are Getting the Birthright Citizenship Case Spectacularly Wrong

30.01.2026 9

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Madiba K. Dennie

Why Conspiracy Theories About the Minnesota Protests Are Falling Flat

The Trump administration has often alleged dark motives for acts of decency. In Minnesota, that tactic is backfiring on a historic scale.

29.01.2026 4

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Kelly Weill

Ice Not Only Looks and Acts Like a Paramilitary Force—It Is One, and That Makes It Harder To Curb

29.01.2026 8

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Erica de Bruin

Alex Pretti’s Killing Has Upended the Right’s Narratives About Government Overreach

Conservatives have long viewed use of force by federal agents as tyrannical — even when that threat of force was entirely made up.

28.01.2026 50

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Catherine Thompson

The Supreme Court’s ‘History and Tradition’ Test Has Now Run Into America’s History and Tradition of Anti-Black Racism

21.01.2026 9

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Madiba K. Dennie

You Say The Supreme Court Isn’t Partisan? Look in the Shadow

On the shadow docket, SCOTUS reveals itself to be not just conservative, but pro-Trump

20.01.2026 10

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Charles Tiefer

Adherents of Christian Reconstructionism Seek Authority Over Civil Society, Law and Culture

12.01.2026 10

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Art Jipson

‘Shared Decision-Making’ for Childhood Vaccines Sounds Empowering. But More ‘Choice’ Can Mean Less Access.

09.01.2026 10

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y. Tony Yang

John Roberts Thinks 2025 Was a Banner Year for the Constitution

07.01.2026 10

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Madiba K. Dennie

Jan. 6 and the Long Shadow of Civil War- and Reconstruction-Era Political Violence

07.01.2026 20

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Gregory P. Downs

12 Senators Describe What It Was Like as Rioters Stormed the Capitol on January 6

06.01.2026 20

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Mary Clare Jalonick

How Trump Is Making the Federal Judiciary Younger, Whiter, and More Republican

23.12.2025 10

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Jp Collins

How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Resegregating the American Workforce

The administration is unveiling new policies that together make it harder for people of color to challenge illegal discrimination at work.

19.12.2025 10

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Madiba K. Dennie

Emil Bove Went to a Trump Rally Because He Supports Donald Trump

11.12.2025 20

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Jay Willis

3 States Are Challenging Precedent Against Posting the Ten Commandments in Public Schools

05.12.2025 4

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Charles J. Russo

Trump Has Never Been Clearer About What an Immigration Judge’s Real Job Is

05.12.2025 10

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Madiba K. Dennie

State Lawmakers Aren’t Waiting for Congress to Get Its Act Together

02.12.2025 7

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Rep. Kelly Moller

The NLRB Is Suing to Keep States From Protecting Workers’ Rights

28.11.2025 8

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Steve Kennedy

Young Candidates Can Speak to the Affordability Crisis Because They’re Living It 

25.11.2025 10

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Amanda Litman

Why the Chemtrail Conspiracy Theory Lingers and Grows — and Why Tucker Carlson Is Talking About It

24.11.2025 6

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Calum Lister Matheson

Are Zohran Mamdani and Katie Wilson Democratic Socialists or FDR Democrats? They Are Both

21.11.2025 10

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Peter Dreier

Judges Are Finding Ways to Deal With the Supreme Court’s Disastrous Shadow Docket

20.11.2025 8

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Madiba K. Dennie

Trump Wants to Talk ‘Affordability,’ But Is Stuck in a Gilded White House Bubble

19.11.2025 5

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Lisa Gilbert

Inside the GOP’s Assault on Youth Voting Rights 

18.11.2025 6

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Jonathan Becker

The Trump White House Is Trying to Hide Its Judicial Nominees From You

14.11.2025 10

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Jp Collins

A Brand-New Trump Judge Will Hear the Right’s Latest Attack On Medication Abortion

07.11.2025 5

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Susan Rinkunas

What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue 

04.11.2025 7

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Allegra Kirkland

Why Trump Expects the Justice Department to Cut Him a Quarter-Billion-Dollar Check

23.10.2025 4

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Jay Willis

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

14.10.2025 8

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Madiba K. Dennie

The Trump Administration’s New Protection Racket for Higher Ed

The art of replacing the law with the deal

06.10.2025 5

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Joseph Fishkin

How John Roberts Won Over the Bush White House and Remade the Supreme Court

02.10.2025 8

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Lisa Graves

No One Is Sure If It’s Illegal to Accept a $50,000 Bribe Stuffed In a Cava Bag, Thanks to the Supreme Court

24.09.2025 10

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Madiba K. Dennie

Don’t Give Donald Trump’s Half-Baked Elections Plans More Juice Than They Deserve 

The underpants gnomes are coming for our elections …

22.09.2025 9

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Justin Levitt

State Lawmakers Are Getting Arrested at Detention Centers and Yelling at Masked ICE Agents. Good.

19.09.2025 7

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Gaby Goldstein

Nancy Mace Can Thank John Roberts for Keeping Her Congressional Seat Safe

19.09.2025 9

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Madiba K. Dennie

The Difference Between the Coup Plotters Who Are Held to Account and Those Who Aren’t

Bolsonaro joins a rogues’ gallery of coup plotters held to account for their failed power grab

13.09.2025 8

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John Joseph Chin

Conservative Justices Declare Racial Profiling Just Fine If Trump Asks For It

09.09.2025 8

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Madiba K. Dennie

The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security

08.09.2025 4

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Eli Hager