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The Eric Adams Scandal Has Given Kathy Hochul an Impossible Dilemma

The Eric Adams Scandal Has Given Kathy Hochul an Impossible Dilemma
20.02.2025 10

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The Most Stunning Detail of the Eric Adams–Trump Corruption Scandal So Far

The Most Stunning Detail of the Eric Adams–Trump Corruption Scandal So Far
15.02.2025 30

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This Government Chaos Is Cover for What Trump and Musk Really Want

This Government Chaos Is Cover for What Trump and Musk Really Want
11.02.2025 50

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Trump’s Plane Crash Press Conference Was Unbelievably Vile, Even for Him

31.01.2025 80

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A Night Out With the New Yorkers Who Are About to Get Very, Very Rich Off of Trump

27.01.2025 10

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He Should Be the Last Person Going on Tucker Carlson. It’s All Too Clear Why He Did.

25.01.2025 8

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Trump’s Inauguration Shows Who Really Matters to This Administration

21.01.2025 4

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She Was Behind the Most Annoying News Cycle of 2024. Now We’re Unleashing Her on the Whole World.

20.01.2025 2

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Trump’s Biggest Political Liability Is Hiding in Plain Sight

17.01.2025 6

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Matt Gaetz Really Doesn’t Want This Ethics Report Out, Huh?

Tweet Share Share Comment This is  Totally Normal Quote of the Day , a feature highlighting a statement from the news that exemplifies just  how...

20.12.2024 4

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This AOC–Pelosi Fight Is Not Good for Democrats

Tweet Share Share Comment Update, Dec. 17, 2024, at 12:12 p.m.: On Tuesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lost the vote to be the ranking Democrat...

17.12.2024 10

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Why On Earth Is a Prominent Democrat Telling Biden to Pardon Trump?

Tweet Share Share Comment This is  Totally Normal Quote of the Day , a feature highlighting a statement from the news that exemplifies just  how...

11.12.2024 5

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The Big Shadow Hanging Over Democrats’ Most Contentious Postelection Fight

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09.12.2024 6

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Oh, So Now John Fetterman Likes Dr. Oz?

Tweet Share Share Comment This is  Totally Normal Quote of the Day , a feature highlighting a statement from the news that exemplifies just  how...

22.11.2024 30

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Democrats, Is This the Best You Can Do?

Tweet Share Share Comment Based on the Democrats’ personnel decisions and public statements, you’d have no idea the party lost control of all three...

15.11.2024 20

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The Crass but Winning Political Tactic That Kamala Harris Missed

Tweet Share Share Comment In Kamala Harris’ concession speech Wednesday afternoon, she sounded a similar refrain to the one that marked her...

11.11.2024 3

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No One Wants to Admit What Will Really Decide This Election. Unfortunately, I Saw It for Myself.

The pain in my forehead was sharp, as if I had just slammed it against the nightstand. My eyes felt weighted by sandbags and burned when the light...

04.11.2024 30

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The Most Revealing Exchange of Kamala Harris’ Fox News Interview

Tweet Share Share Comment Well, Kamala Harris did it: She went on Fox News. And viewers were disabused of any notion that the station might...

17.10.2024 3

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The Harris Campaign Is Making a Huge Mistake in North Carolina and Georgia

Tweet Share Share Comment Barely three weeks remain until Election Day, which means that the Kamala Harris campaign is pulling out all the stops....

11.10.2024 10

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A “Corporate Money Death Star” Is Looming Over the 2024 Election. We’re About to See If It Wins.

Tweet Share Share Comment About a week before the 2022 midterms, FTX, the cryptocurrency exchange founded by billionaire wunderkind Sam...

09.10.2024 2

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The Brutal Tim Walz Tactical Error That Cost Him the Debate

Tweet Share Share Comment Americans hate Sen. J.D. Vance. All sorts of polling shows it in all sorts of ways. Vance sports a favorability rating of...

02.10.2024 10

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The Incredible Irony of the Eric Adams Indictment

Tweet Share Share Comment The indictment of Eric Adams, unsealed Thursday, is a colorful document, alleging over $100,000 in graft, the defrauding...

27.09.2024 8

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Only One Person Can Fix the Unholy Mess New York Democrats Have Made. I’m Not Sure if She’s Available.

Tweet Share Share Comment Since the moment Joe Biden ended his presidential reelection campaign, things have been looking up for Democrats...

16.09.2024 6

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Kamala Harris Did Something at the Debate That Joe Biden Never Could

Tweet Share Share Comment The first debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris may well end up being the last debate between the two...

11.09.2024 2

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Bernie’s DNC Speech Sounded Like Everyone Else’s. That’s Astonishing.

Tweet Share Share Comment So far, the Democratic National Convention has been filled with era-marking oratory. The first night served as a...

22.08.2024 2

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I Went to a Zionist Democrats Party at the DNC. What I Saw Made Me Think There’s a Policy Shift Coming.

Tweet Share Share Comment It was a quiet first day at the Democratic National Convention on the hot-button issue of Israel–Palestine. The tens of...

21.08.2024 7

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What Democrats Are Desperate to Avoid

Tweet Share Share Comment The 2024 Democratic National Convention starts this week, but the date lurking in the back of everyone’s mind is 1968....

19.08.2024 2

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The George Floyd Era Is Over in Congress

Tweet Share Share Comment On June 6, 2020, some 500,000 Americans turned out across over 500 cities and towns for the single largest day of protest...

12.08.2024 20

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Why Tim Walz Is Exactly What the Democratic Party Needs

Tweet Share Share Comment During the veepstakes of the past few weeks, both moderates and progressives have scrambled to claim Minnesota Gov. Tim...

06.08.2024 2

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It Is Possible to Be Too Creepy for the GOP

Tweet Share Share Comment Two years before Democrats had settled on “weird” as the most effective criticism of Republican politics, Blake Masters...

05.08.2024 20

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In the Most Paranoid Right-Wing Primary of the Year, the Biggest Existential Threat Is Off-Limits

A crowd of several dozen people at the Hangar, a Trump-themed speakeasy, stood and bowed their heads in prayer. An elderly woman whispered meekly,...

30.07.2024 5

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Biden Is Out of the Race. Here’s What We Know.

Tweet Share Share Comment After three weeks of growing pressure from Democrats following a disastrous debate performance, President Joe Biden said...

21.07.2024 2

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What J.D. Vance Brings to the Ticket

Tweet Share Share Comment After much speculation—and nearly as much self-abasement from a long line of Republican hopefuls—Donald Trump finally...

16.07.2024 10

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