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This Is So Much Worse Than Last Time

This Is So Much Worse Than Last Time
05.02.2025 20

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Alex Shephard

How RFK Jr. Helped Democrats Get Their Act Together

How RFK Jr. Helped Democrats Get Their Act Together
31.01.2025 20

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Alex Shephard

Trump’s Coalition Is More Fragile Than He Thinks

Trump’s Coalition Is More Fragile Than He Thinks
27.01.2025 20

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The First Resistance Failed. The Next One Can’t.

The First Resistance Failed. The Next One Can’t.
20.01.2025 10

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What Trump Really Wants From Greenland and Panama

12.01.2025 30

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Donald Trump Is The New Republic’s 2024 Scoundrel of the Year

For the first time in what is now clearly the Trump era—a period stretching from the rise of “birtherism” to the present and, depressingly,...

23.12.2024 40

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Saudi Arabia’s World Cup Win is Shameful

Ten years from now, the Men’s World Cup will be held in a country that has long been considered one of the worst abusers of human rights on the...

13.12.2024 9

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Democrats Still Haven’t Figured Out How to Attack Trump

The first person that Donald Trump nominated to serve as his attorney general for his second term had to back out in order to avoid the publication...

10.12.2024 5

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Donald Trump’s Other Big Victory

Asked about Donald Trump’s recent election in advance of a November 2016 game against Mexico, the U.S. men’s national team’s wunderkind Christian...

22.11.2024 3

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“Will It Be a Legacy of Horror or Something Else?”

In two months, Joe Biden will leave office and, soon after, nearly everything he and his administration have accomplished will be undone. One...

20.11.2024 2

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Trump Is Bringing Neoconservatism Back

Asked about Israel’s horrific bombing of Gaza in an April interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Donald Trump laid out the message he...

19.11.2024 20

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How the Democrats Lost the Election

Four years ago, Donald Trump lost an election and began a baseless crusade to overturn it that ultimately led to a violent assault on the seat of...

06.11.2024 20

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Kamala Harris Pulled Off a Miracle

If the polls are to be trusted, the 2024 presidential election will be decided by razor-thin margins: somewhere in the agonizing space between...

05.11.2024 4

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Move Over, JD Vance. Trump Has a New, Even Weirder Running Mate.

I would like to apologize to JD Vance. He is not, it turns out, the weirdest member of Trump’s reelection campaign. In late July, I described the...

31.10.2024 5

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It’s Not Just Trump We Have to Fear Anymore

Billed as a “closing statement,” Donald Trump’s Sunday rally at Madison Square Garden was an orgy of hate. David Rem, a childhood friend of...

28.10.2024 1

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Fascism Is a Kitchen Table Issue Too

As she delivers her closing argument in the final week-plus of the presidential campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris is increasingly centering...

25.10.2024 1

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Kamala Harris’s Momentum Is Gone

On Monday, Donald Trump’s brain broke. After medical emergencies in the crowd cut short his town hall in suburban Philadelphia, the former...

17.10.2024 20

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Kamala Harris Is Making the Same Mistakes She Made in 2019

“Where has this Kamala Harris been all along?” That was the question Time magazine posed three weeks after the vice president replaced President...

09.10.2024 20

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J.D. Vance Is the Future of the Republican Party

In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s disastrous performance in his first—and perhaps only—debate against Kamala Harris, Republicans kept bemoaning...

02.10.2024 20

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Kamala Harris Just Destroyed Donald Trump in the Debate

The biggest problem with the first presidential debate this year was obvious almost from the very start. Joe Biden was incoherent. He struggled to...

11.09.2024 2

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Kamala Harris Can’t Keep Running Like This

After seven weeks of euphoria over Kamala Harris’s ascension to the top of the Democratic presidential ticket, panic finally returned to the party...

10.09.2024 40

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Kamala Harris Is Imitating Biden’s Very Bad Media Strategy

Speaking to Ezra Klein shortly before Kamala Harris selected him as her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz made the case that the best way...

08.09.2024 3

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The Democrats Are United. Now What?

When Bill Clinton took the stage on the third night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, he wasn’t scanning the crowd to gauge their...

29.08.2024 1

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At the DNC, the Democrats Are Finally Fighting

Just over a month ago this was all unthinkable. In mid-July, the Democratic Party was doomed. But a mere four weeks after President Joe Biden...

23.08.2024 3

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Democrats Aren’t Really Talking About Democracy Anymore

The speech that Barack Obama delivered to close the second night of the Democratic National Convention was, in many ways, a nostalgic performance...

22.08.2024 3

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Trump’s J.D. Vance Pick Just Got Even Worse

When it became clear that he had picked the worst running mate in American political history, Donald Trump shrugged it off. The fact that J.D....

12.08.2024 70

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Donald Trump Has No Heir

On Saturday, Donald Trump had revenge on his mind. As he prepared to campaign in Atlanta, the former president attacked several Georgia Republicans...

06.08.2024 3

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Read J.D. Vance’s Violent Foreword to Project 2025 Leader’s New Book

Donald Trump has been desperate lately to distance himself from Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s radical plan to remake the federal...

31.07.2024 300

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Is J.D. Vance the Worst Vice Presidential Pick Ever?

One week ago, Republicans were partying. The raucous scenes at Milwaukee’s Republican National Convention reflected two victories. One was Donald...

26.07.2024 40

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Kamala Harris Has Plenty of Time to Win the Election

In American politics, 75 days—the length of time between the end of the Democratic National Convention and Election Day—is the blink of an eye. The...

26.07.2024 4

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Donald Trump Is Now the Weaker Candidate

It is tempting, when you look back at the raucous, joyous scenes from last week’s Republican National Convention, to assume that Donald Trump is...

22.07.2024 100

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Nothing Has Changed: Trump Is Still Trump

On Saturday, at a political rally in western Pennsylvania, three people were shot. One was a hero, a firefighter who died as he leaped to protect...

15.07.2024 1

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Joe Biden’s Trumpian Turn

How does Joe Biden plan on beating Donald Trump? Twelve days after the worst debate performance in American history, we still have no answer to...

10.07.2024 1

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