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

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

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 20

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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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Who is the American neo-Nazi supposedly mentoring Ireland's far right?

Until late last year, Ireland seemed like an outlier among European nations in remaining relatively immune from anti-immigrant bigotry and...

28.07.2024 30

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Anti-party in a ghost town: Trump's undead GOP holds an un-convention

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...

18.07.2024 5

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Donald Trump survives an assassination attempt. Can America survive what happens next?

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...

14.07.2024 20

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