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A blatantly corrupt, anti-democratic and illegitimate president stages a criminal coup. He's not named Maduro
For three years we've spun fairytales about Russia's inevitable defeat, while the "West" was falling apart
Trump's global "strategy" is grandiose, racist, and alarmingly dumb: Tyranny is cool, bro! But democracy sucks
Long before the Epstein scandal, it was clear Summers was a viper. Clinton and Obama simply didn't want to know
In the early years of SNL, Francisco Franco was "still dead." But to his 21st-century fanboys, he's immortal
A dazzling, dizzying documentary captures rock pioneer Smith during her comeback years
It isn't just MAGA moonbats freaking out: Zohran and his voters are an existential threat to the power structure
Elon Musk has convinced himself that English con man Tommy Robinson will save civilization. Honestly, it's sad
Catherine Connolly's big win has a distinctly Zohran Mamdani flavor
Sometimes history rhymes like crazy: Morris Hillquit came 108 years before Mamdani, and his lessons still resonate
J. Edgar Hoover built America's secret police to persecute immigrants and crush dissent. Maybe we needed a reminder
Nobel's cowardly shuffle: Prize goes to Venezuelan right-wing activist, who immediately "dedicates" it to Trump
Why is Trump attacking Venezuela? All the usual reasons: Wounded pride, limitless greed and conspiracy theories
His speech was humiliating and terrifying — but at least it showed the world how damaged America is now
MAGA forces told us all along they wanted to crush free speech. Maybe we'll believe them now
Liberals believed they'd won the culture war and the right was now permanently uncool. Kirk proved otherwise
So much for the centrist comeback of 2025. As democracy slides into the abyss, they'll definitely blame the left
Trump isn't the first president to send troops into American cities as political theater: But there's a difference
Trump gave Putin everything and got nothing back — but that's not why the media felt so betrayed
No meaningful Palestinian state will exist anytime in the foreseeable future. Facing that truth is crucial
Donald Trump's tariff policies reveal a coherent theory of global power: F**k everybody else
In a tiny, conservative and virtually all-white community in upstate New York, a nationwide uprising comes to life
JD's 2028 platform, first draft: White supremacists are more American than Zohran Mamdani. Any questions?
Yeah, it's a concentration camp. It's also a meme, a troll and an especially ugly distillation of American history
Is Zohran Mamdani good for the Democrats? It's the wrong question — he's good for the world
Forget Trump — he just caddies for this guy. Like it or not, Benjamin Netanyahu is the 21st century's antihero
So "centrism" is back and neoliberalism will save us from fascism. Cool story, bro — but we've heard it before
Trump longs to revive the imperialist "Great Game" alongside Xi and Putin. There's a problem: He's too dumb
Trump's racist assault on South Africa's president was shockingly clumsy — because the truth doesn't even matter
What anti-Trump backlash? Nigel Farage's MAGA-style party scores a huge win — and Britain's establishment panics
Belfast rap trio Kneecap made global headlines at Coachella — and right-wing enemies. It's a classic Irish story
His return to the global stage has been an extended, catastrophic self-own. Yeah, he's dangerous — but not serious
Welcome to upside-down America: David Brooks calls for revolution while Gretchen Whitmer and Gavin Newsom grovel
How an eccentric economist became a MAGA true believer and got pantsed by Elon: A sad but true story
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...