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Kash Patel hasn’t ruined the FBI — he’s only revealed its true nature

J. Edgar Hoover built America's secret police to persecute immigrants and crush dissent. Maybe we needed a reminder

19.10.2025 10

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At least Trump didn’t win the Nobel Prize. Or, wait — did he?

Nobel's cowardly shuffle: Prize goes to Venezuelan right-wing activist, who immediately "dedicates" it to Trump

12.10.2025 20

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Trump’s phony war on Venezuela — and his larger war on reality

Why is Trump attacking Venezuela? All the usual reasons: Wounded pride, limitless greed and conspiracy theories

05.10.2025 5

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Trump at the UN: Turning point in history, and not in a good way

His speech was humiliating and terrifying — but at least it showed the world how damaged America is now

28.09.2025 30

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America’s slow-motion coup speeds up: Tough lessons of the Kimmel affair

MAGA forces told us all along they wanted to crush free speech. Maybe we'll believe them now

21.09.2025 3

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Death of a culture warrior: The right’s comeback win is Charlie Kirk’s legacy

Liberals believed they'd won the culture war and the right was now permanently uncool. Kirk proved otherwise

14.09.2025 20

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A specter is haunting Europe — and it’s Joe Biden. What a drag!

So much for the centrist comeback of 2025. As democracy slides into the abyss, they'll definitely blame the left

07.09.2025 20

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Troops in the streets: The police-state dark side of democracy

Trump isn't the first president to send troops into American cities as political theater: But there's a difference

31.08.2025 4

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Trump baked in Alaska: He grovels — worse yet, it’s bad TV

Trump gave Putin everything and got nothing back — but that's not why the media felt so betrayed

17.08.2025 20

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There is no “two-state solution.” Can we stop pretending?

No meaningful Palestinian state will exist anytime in the foreseeable future. Facing that truth is crucial

10.08.2025 3

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Trump’s biggest deal ever: Global chaos and disaster

Donald Trump's tariff policies reveal a coherent theory of global power: F**k everybody else

03.08.2025 10

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Protest in a small town: Black Lives Matter comes to rural America — and it matters

In a tiny, conservative and virtually all-white community in upstate New York, a nationwide uprising comes to life

23.07.2025 3

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Who’s a true American, and who decides? JD Vance has answers

JD's 2028 platform, first draft: White supremacists are more American than Zohran Mamdani. Any questions?

13.07.2025 50

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Alligator Alcatraz: American history from the dark side

Yeah, it's a concentration camp. It's also a meme, a troll and an especially ugly distillation of American history

07.07.2025 90

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Zohran and democracy: Three days that shook the world

Is Zohran Mamdani good for the Democrats? It's the wrong question — he's good for the world

30.06.2025 8

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Everybody hates Bibi — but he keeps on winning

Forget Trump — he just caddies for this guy. Like it or not, Benjamin Netanyahu is the 21st century's antihero

15.06.2025 10

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Is "centrism" making a comeback? OK, sort of — but blink and you'll miss it

So "centrism" is back and neoliberalism will save us from fascism. Cool story, bro — but we've heard it before

08.06.2025 20

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Does Donald Trump want to carve up the world — or keep it all for himself?

Trump longs to revive the imperialist "Great Game" alongside Xi and Putin. There's a problem: He's too dumb

01.06.2025 30

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"White genocide" and white guilt: Donald Trump versus history

Trump's racist assault on South Africa's president was shockingly clumsy — because the truth doesn't even matter

25.05.2025 30

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Is London burning? Britain's sudden political meltdown — and ours

What anti-Trump backlash? Nigel Farage's MAGA-style party scores a huge win — and Britain's establishment panics

18.05.2025 6

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Ireland's hip-hop rebels: How three Belfast bros became Fox News villains

Belfast rap trio Kneecap made global headlines at Coachella — and right-wing enemies. It's a classic Irish story

11.05.2025 7

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The world has a verdict on 100 days of Trump 2.0: Wow, what a loser

His return to the global stage has been an extended, catastrophic self-own. Yeah, he's dangerous — but not serious

27.04.2025 70

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The fascist moment is here: Have mainstream liberals heard the alarm go off?

Welcome to upside-down America: David Brooks calls for revolution while Gretchen Whitmer and Gavin Newsom grovel

20.04.2025 60

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The tiny tragedy of Peter Navarro: Yeah, he had bad ideas — and then it all went wrong

How an eccentric economist became a MAGA true believer and got pantsed by Elon: A sad but true story

13.04.2025 30

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Donald Trump v. Europe: A thin line between love and hate

Trump's trade war with Europe is petty, vindictive and dumb. News flash! But it's not strategic — it's personal

06.04.2025 10

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Dark leprechaun Conor McGregor: MAGA's latest manfluencer

Former MMA champ and accused rapist gets St. Paddy's Trump-washing, pretends to run for president of Ireland

23.03.2025 50

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Donald Trump loves the Irish. Do they really have a choice?

Ireland's leader survives painful St. Paddy's visit; was not asked to perform Lucky Charms leprechaun jig

16.03.2025 30

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Can this guy really save Europe from Elon Musk?

Well, of course not. But Germany's accidental chancellor has a crucial role to play in history, like it or not

02.03.2025 10

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Donald Trump's first law: There is no law

John Adams famously wrote (quoting 17th-century political philosopher James Harrington) that a republic was “an Empire of Laws, and not of Men.”...

23.02.2025 20

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Trump's imperialist acid flashback: Is his Club Gaza dream for real?

Do we take Trump's outlandish Gaza-Lago vision seriously? In the quantum-Trump realm, all answers are correct

09.02.2025 20

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The Substack invasion: When the tech bros came for journalism, everything changed

How did crusading journalists Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi become right-wing trolls? Let Eoin Higgins explain

02.02.2025 20

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Elon's global takeover: Can one billionaire dismantle democracy? We'll find out

Musk's feud with Steve Bannon is largely self-indulgent theater — but the global consequences could be nasty

25.01.2025 10

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We wanted it darker, apparently: Leonard Cohen saw the second coming of Trump all along

Donald Trump's first presidency was a test. Well, we failed

21.01.2025 4

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“There is no morality right now”: Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger on Donald Trump's GOP

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...

04.01.2025 10

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Trump's imperial dream: A man, a plan, a canal — Panama! (Oh, and Greenland too)

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...

29.12.2024 5

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What just happened in Syria, and who benefits most? Well, that part is easy

Trying to make sense of what just happened in Syria — where the seemingly impregnable regime of Bashar Assad abruptly collapsed two weeks ago in...

22.12.2024 5

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Emmanuel Macron's last act: France's pretty-boy Napoleon faces his Waterloo

At this point, Americans shouldn’t need reminding that the institutions of so-called liberal democracy are in profound crisis, and that the crisis...

08.12.2024 3

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So Ireland had an election: Trump didn't win, but nobody else did either

In a year of global political turmoil, anti-incumbent fervor, across-the-board cynicism and the looming shadow of Donald Trump, voters in the...

02.12.2024 5

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Now Democrats must face the future: What do liberals actually want?

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-...

07.11.2024 4

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Election 2024: A bizarre historic showdown reaches its final chapter — maybe

At long last, America has arrived at the final chapter of the seemingly endless 2024 presidential campaign, which in some broader historical sense...

05.11.2024 2

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Kamala Harris' real problem: Who are the Democrats, anyway?

To accuse Kamala Harris’ campaign of reflexively repeating the mistakes of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign — as Jacobin’s Branko Marcetic did...

27.10.2024 20

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When a MAGA-style movement nearly destroyed democracy — 110 years ago

Consider this scenario, unfolding in a country that views itself as the world’s leading democracy: That might sound like the funhouse-mirror...

20.10.2024 40

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Trump's self-destruction was epic — but this is America, so it might not be enough

In a sane, normal and functional democracy — and even in a mildly dysfunctional one, which is a widespread condition these days — Donald Trump’s...

12.09.2024 70

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Chicago deep dish: Democrats stage a triumphant spectacle — but where's the beef?

CHICAGO — During Barack Obama’s speech to the Democratic convention last Tuesday night, I witnessed a spirited discussion between an elderly woman...

24.08.2024 3

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"The FBI was getting out of hand": Ed Helms on big history fails – and the longevity of "The Office"

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...

22.08.2024 5

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Democrats gone wild: What was unleashed with "Lock him up" — and where will it lead?

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...

21.08.2024 10

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Unpacking the right's "50-year plot" to wreck democracy — and why it might work

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have turned the 2024 presidential campaign upside down and galvanized the Democratic Party's base voters, who had become...

16.08.2024 90

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