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Trump’s War in the Hands of a Man Who Dare Not Face Demons

Trump’s War in the Hands of a Man Who Dare Not Face Demons

There are no new stories of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth becoming so drunk that he has to be carried out of social events, as when he led the...

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Michael Daly

Trump Is Replaying LBJ’s Losing Battle With ‘Fake News’

Trump Is Replaying LBJ’s Losing Battle With ‘Fake News’

In the 1960s, President Lyndon Johnson had three large TV sets bolted into the walls of the Oval Office, one tuned to each network—there were only...

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John Casey

There’s Only One Thing U.S. Allies Should Thank Trump for

There’s Only One Thing U.S. Allies Should Thank Trump for

I have two daughters living in the United Kingdom. Both of them are United States citizens, and they love this country. But they are certainly not...

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David Gardner

Trump’s Most Dangerous War Isn’t in Iran. It’s in MAGA-land

Trump’s Most Dangerous War Isn’t in Iran. It’s in MAGA-land

Mom, the white supremacists are fighting again! This week’s MAGA temper tantrum began with the abrupt resignation of Joe Kent—a former Green...

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Michael Ian Black

Trump’s War Is Just the Tip of His Iceberg of Catastrophe

Trump’s War Is Just the Tip of His Iceberg of Catastrophe

Trump’s Iran war is a fiasco. Undertaken without adequate planning by a president deaf to the advice of experts, there is no meaningful measure by...

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David Rothkopf

Trump’s War Is a Pivotal ‘FAFO’ Failure on the World Stage

Trump’s War Is a Pivotal ‘FAFO’ Failure on the World Stage

President Trump says the war in Iran was won in the first hour, but we haven’t won enough, and we don’t want to leave early as the country’s...

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Eleanor Clift

Spooked Trump Lets Slip Realization That His War Is Doomed

Spooked Trump Lets Slip Realization That His War Is Doomed

President Donald Trump has finally realized that he launched a political grenade at his own party when he declared war on Iran—and that he has no...

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Janna Brancolini

This Is My Jeffrey Epstein Story: Michael Wolff

This Is My Jeffrey Epstein Story: Michael Wolff

Spring breakers are facing travel carnage as airports across the country descended into chaos Thursday amid security delays due to the ongoing...

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Michael Wolff

28 Million Reasons This Is Trump’s Craziest Plan Yet

28 Million Reasons This Is Trump’s Craziest Plan Yet

President Donald Trump seemed deranged enough when he responded online to Venezuela’s 3-2 victory over the United States in the World Baseball...

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Michael Daly

Does Melania Trump Even Have Any Real Friends?

Does Melania Trump Even Have Any Real Friends?

Politics as theatre. Celebrity as currency. Wellness as religion. And power as the only real language in the room. Subscribe to PRIMAL SCREAM with...

15.03.2026 6

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Joanna Coles

The Big Speech Melania Trump Has Planned For Oscars Night

The Big Speech Melania Trump Has Planned For Oscars Night

An already-tense White House was plunged further into chaos during an emergency meeting Friday morning, reports an anonymous source who overheard the...

14.03.2026 8

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Seamus Clair

This is The Truth About Pentagon Pete’s Fixation on ‘Death’

This is The Truth About Pentagon Pete’s Fixation on ‘Death’

As he rhapsodizes in his Iran war briefings about maximum violent death and destruction “without mercy,” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth could...

12.03.2026 4

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Michael Daly

Joe Rogan and the Podcast Bros Are Having Second Thoughts

Joe Rogan and the Podcast Bros Are Having Second Thoughts

We’re starting to see a few miserly mea culpas emerging from the loose-knit collection of podcast influencers who went to bat for Trump in 2024: Joe...

12.03.2026 8

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Michael Ian Black

Pentagon Pete Should Get to Spend Millions More on Crabs

The problem isn’t the $124,000 Pete Hegseth’s Department of Defense spent on ice cream machines last September. Or the $15.1 million they spent on...

12.03.2026 5

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Michael Ian Black

This Is the Frightening Truth Trump Can’t See About His War

This Is the Frightening Truth Trump Can’t See About His War

Donald Trump is being drawn into the kind of proxy war with Russia that his predecessors have been trying to avoid since the Bay of Pigs. Vladimir...

11.03.2026 6

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David Gardner

Trump Is Trying To Run the World Like a Pyramid Scheme

Trump Is Trying To Run the World Like a Pyramid Scheme

Trump seems to believe the presidency comes with C-Suite access for the planet as a whole: he can interview foreign leaders for job openings, dissolve...

10.03.2026 8

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Holly Hudson

ICE Barbie’s ‘Shield’ Superheroes Are Here to Save the Day

As the face of the new “Shield of the Americas” franchise, Kristi “ICE Barbie” Noem joins beloved figures like Mighty Lil’ Marco, The...

09.03.2026 5

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Seamus Clair

The Brutal Price Americans Will Pay for Trump’s War

When Donald Trump was asked by Time magazine if he was worried the war could come to America’s backyard, he replied, “I guess.” Like the San...

09.03.2026 6

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David Gardner

I Nearly Endorsed Trump. Now I’m One of His Top Critics

It was January 2013, and the Lincoln Dinner was just a few months away. Oakland County, Michigan has one of the largest and oldest Lincoln...

08.03.2026 8

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David Trott

Trump Fired ICE Barbie—But She Still Broke Barriers

Politics as theatre. Celebrity as currency. Wellness as religion. And power as the only real language in the room. Subscribe to PRIMAL SCREAM with...

08.03.2026 10

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Joanna Coles

Why Trump’s Iran War is Just Another Family Business

For more insight and commentary from Michael Wolff, subscribe to HOWL on Substack and gain access to exclusive daily content. We’re in the middle of...

07.03.2026 10

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Michael Wolff

How Trump’s War Just Took Its Most Terrifying Twist

Like many, one of my first thoughts on learning that the U.S. and Israel had gone to war with Iran was how that would affect Russia and China. They...

06.03.2026 7

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David Gardner

Pentagon Pete Is Waging War Like a ‘Call of Duty’ Troll

Bro, this Iran attack is based. So epic. Such fury. Secretary of Half-Completed Pull-Ups, Pete Hegseth, freaking killed it as his press conference...

06.03.2026 6

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Michael Ian Black

Marco Rubio Is No Colin Powell. That’s the Problem

Colin Powell spent the final years of his life haunted by his February 2003 presentation to the United Nations Security Council, claiming the threat...

05.03.2026 6

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John Casey

What Does Trump, 79, Even Have to Lose In His War With Iran?

Who knows how, but Donald Trump has gotten out of every tight spot he’s fallen into. From the bone spurs that saved him from the draft to the bail...

05.03.2026 7

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Eleanor Clift

Talarico, Crockett and Dems’ Dangerous ‘Electability' Debate

Hillary Clinton lost. Joe Biden won. Kamala Harris lost. Over the past decade, and despite the boundaries broken by Barack Obama’s presidency, as...

04.03.2026 10

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Kaivan Shroff

How Hegseth Proved He Does Not Know What Makes America Great

Maybe, in his Princeton days, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth read the ancient historian Thucydides’ famous contention that might makes right. But,...

04.03.2026 10

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Michael Daly

How Fallen Troops Expose Trump’s Shamelessly Reckless War

President Donald Trump took us to war against Iran by claiming that he was protecting us from weapons that do not exist. The shameful war turned...

03.03.2026 8

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Michael Daly

Inside Trump’s Grand Plans for His War With Iran: Wolff

Inside Trump’s Grand Plans for His War With Iran: Wolff A recurring theme in the second Trump administration has been to address resentments Trump...

03.03.2026 8

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Michael Wolff

White House Works Hard to Cover Up Labor Dept Sex Scandal

The Department of Labor is the federal agency charged with enforcing workplace standards and setting the example for ethical conduct across...

03.03.2026 9

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Mark Greenblatt

Remember: Most Americans Can’t Even Find Iran on a Map

If you’ve turned on cable news at any point since between about 2 am Saturday morning and this second, you’ll have been confronted with...

02.03.2026 10

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Chris Cillizza

Draft-Dodger Trump Has Found Another Way to Betray America

What better dodge is there for draft-dodger Donald Trump than to get elected as the “peace president,” promise an end to forever foreign wars,...

01.03.2026 10

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Michael Daly

Why Donald Trump’s Iran War is One Big Lie on Top of Another

Even for a man with such a tenuous hold on the truth, Donald Trump may come to regret his justification for going to war with Iran. More than anything...

28.02.2026 10

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David Gardner

How Unfit Trump’s War Could Be Most Dangerous One of All

I remember sitting in a hospital room following the birth of my younger daughter watching reports of the early days of the first Gulf War. The U.S....

28.02.2026 10

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David Rothkopf

The Horror Movie Feud Tearing Apart MAGA Faithful

“Candace Owens is an evil, twisted human being.” —Ben Shapiro, February 24, 2026. (The same Candace Owens he hired for his publication, The...

26.02.2026 9

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Michael Ian Black

The GOP Will Regret Dragging Hillary Back Into the Spotlight

If you’ve noticed Hillary Clinton everywhere again, it’s not because she has launched a comeback tour. It’s because Republicans still just...

26.02.2026 9

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Kaivan Shroff

Why Trump’s Tariff Meltdowns Play Right Into SCOTUS’ Hands

Good for SCOTUS on pushing back against Trump on tariffs, but do they really deserve much credit? And why did it take so long? The justices took just...

25.02.2026 10

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Eleanor Clift

Trump’s SOTU Speech Was Bad. The State of Our Union is Worse

If you took every true thing President Donald Trump said during Tuesday’s State of the Union address and tattooed it onto the genitalia of a flea,...

25.02.2026 10

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David Rothkopf

Why Trump’s Game Show Speech Can’t Get Him Out of Jeopardy

With his perma-tan and showman’s smirk, Donald Trump tried every trick in the book to win over the country. Come on in. Come on down. You get a...

25.02.2026 10

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David Gardner

This Is Why a Prince and a Lord Were Easy Prey for Epstein

The enduring mystery about Jeffrey Epstein isn’t simply how he operated, it’s why so many powerful men wanted to be near him. Strip away the legal...

25.02.2026 9

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Joanna Coles

Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’—And The Mess We'll Have To Pick Up

Perhaps the only positive to emerge from the launch of President Trump’s farcical “Board of Peace” will be a modeling contract for Paraguay’s...

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John Casey

The World Is Learning to Say ‘No’ to Donald Trump

Donald Trump on Friday attacked the Supreme Court majority that ruled against him in a landmark decision on tariffs with a venom and ferocity he has...

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David Rothkopf

The FCC Should Be Banning More Politicians From Talk Shows

Earlier this week, Texas Senate hopeful James Talarico had his interview on Stephen Colbert’s late-night talk show on CBS yanked due to concerns it...

20.02.2026 9

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Liz Mair

The Dems Warming Up for 2028—and Who’s Ahead Racing Already

Spoiler alert: No one has the slightest idea who the Democratic candidate for president will be in 2028. Including me. But that doesn’t mean it’s...

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David Rothkopf

If Aliens Are Coming, Shouldn’t We Tidy Things Up a Little?

No, Barack Obama did not just reveal the existence of E.T. As The Daily Beast’s (self-appointed) UFO beat reporter, I took special notice when the...

19.02.2026 30

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Michael Ian Black

How Royals' Epstein Scandal Exposes a Rotting Establishment

The last time a member of the British royal family was arrested, it ended badly, with an axe, a scaffold, and a monarchy temporarily abolished. That...

19.02.2026 9

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Joanna Coles

How a Solitary Bullet Hole Blew Apart ICE’s Web of Lies

After an ICE agent shot a DoorDash deliverista in Minneapolis on Jan. 14, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem quickly offered a...

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Michael Daly

I Fled Trump’s America. Here's Why I Came Back

I never thought of myself as someone who runs away from my problems. I always thought of myself as someone who flies away from them. That’s why, the...

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Windsor Mann

Has Anyone Seen Melania in NYC? Why We’re Asking: Wolff

Why It Matters That Melania Trump Doesn’t Live With Her Husband: Wolff The Trumps’ latest legal threats against me have been produced by the...

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Michael Wolff

Trump’s Sinister Plot to Remake America’s Judiciary

In Donald Trump’s telling, he has to win every election for his own ego. It’s good for America too, he’d argue, but that’s not really the...

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Eleanor Clift