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Five Years Later, It’s Clear Jan 6 (and Trump) Broke America

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Michael Ian Black

How Maduro Turned a Courtroom Into a Political Theater

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Michael Daly

Donald Trump’s America Is Acting Like a Mafia State

The president is treating Venezuela like a truckload of Italian designer suits his gang can hijack from a rest stop on the New Jersey Turnpike....

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David Rothkopf

Trump Is Launching His Own Iraq—on Hypocrisy Instead of Lies

Gunboat diplomacy as practiced by Britain, Germany and Italy in 1902 led to a prolonged naval blockade of Venezuela to force payment of contested...

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Michael Daly

Why Trump’s War Is Dumb, Brazen—and Of Course, All About Oil

A poet once wrote of small men who measured their lives in “coffee spoons.” But, all of us as Americans living in the modern era, can just as...

04.01.2026 5

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David Rothkopf

Trump Risks Totally Blowing Up MAGA With Shock New Invasion

This may be the day that Donald Trump’s MAGA support blew up in a plume of Venezuelan smoke. He has prevaricated over the Epstein files, posed as a...

03.01.2026 30

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David Gardner

Trump’s War Has Most Sinister Inspiration You Can Imagine

Donald Trump has gone from fawning over Vladimir Putin and seeking his favor and support to actively emulating him in almost every possible way....

03.01.2026 60

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David Rothkopf