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Trump's trade war with Europe is petty, vindictive and dumb. News flash! But it's not strategic — it's personal
Former MMA champ and accused rapist gets St. Paddy's Trump-washing, pretends to run for president of Ireland
Ireland's leader survives painful St. Paddy's visit; was not asked to perform Lucky Charms leprechaun jig
Well, of course not. But Germany's accidental chancellor has a crucial role to play in history, like it or not
John Adams famously wrote (quoting 17th-century political philosopher James Harrington) that a republic was “an Empire of Laws, and not of Men.”...
Do we take Trump's outlandish Gaza-Lago vision seriously? In the quantum-Trump realm, all answers are correct
How did crusading journalists Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi become right-wing trolls? Let Eoin Higgins explain
Musk's feud with Steve Bannon is largely self-indulgent theater — but the global consequences could be nasty
Donald Trump's first presidency was a test. Well, we failed
If I don't need to tell you who Adam Kinzinger is — well, first of all, you might be a bit of a political nerd. That probably also means you saw...
Once again, Donald Trump has stepped in it. As usual, in doing so he has offered us the chance to learn something, even if it’s a lesson most...
Trying to make sense of what just happened in Syria — where the seemingly impregnable regime of Bashar Assad abruptly collapsed two weeks ago in...
At this point, Americans shouldn’t need reminding that the institutions of so-called liberal democracy are in profound crisis, and that the crisis...
In a year of global political turmoil, anti-incumbent fervor, across-the-board cynicism and the looming shadow of Donald Trump, voters in the...
It seemed as if nature was telling us something: Wednesday, Nov. 6, wasn’t just an unseasonably warm day across eastern North America but a record-...
At long last, America has arrived at the final chapter of the seemingly endless 2024 presidential campaign, which in some broader historical sense...
To accuse Kamala Harris’ campaign of reflexively repeating the mistakes of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign — as Jacobin’s Branko Marcetic did...
Consider this scenario, unfolding in a country that views itself as the world’s leading democracy: That might sound like the funhouse-mirror...
In a sane, normal and functional democracy — and even in a mildly dysfunctional one, which is a widespread condition these days — Donald Trump’s...
CHICAGO — During Barack Obama’s speech to the Democratic convention last Tuesday night, I witnessed a spirited discussion between an elderly woman...
If you recognize Ed Helms' face — and let's be honest, nearly everyone does — it's most likely from the many seasons he spent playing paper...
CHICAGO — That noise you heard emanating from the United Center on Monday night wasn’t just the exuberant chant of “Lock him up!” that erupted...
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have turned the 2024 presidential campaign upside down and galvanized the Democratic Party's base voters, who had become...
Until late last year, Ireland seemed like an outlier among European nations in remaining relatively immune from anti-immigrant bigotry and...
MILWAUKEE — I don’t know whether the folks who tried to sell “vegan barbecue” from a booth in the strip of concession tents outside the 2024...
It's unacceptably trite to say that we knew something like this would happen. But on some level, how could we not? Despite the expressions of...