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All These Stories About Trump Making the Epstein Files a Winning Issue Have a Funny Thing in Common

All These Stories About Trump Making the Epstein Files a Winning Issue Have a Funny Thing in Common
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Why Is Epstein the Deal-Breaker for Some of Trump’s Base? We Have a Theory.

Why Is Epstein the Deal-Breaker for Some of Trump’s Base? We Have a Theory.
19.07.2025 3

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Trump’s Driven by Revenge. There’s a Reason Democrats Can’t Figure Out How to Respond.

Trump’s Driven by Revenge. There’s a Reason Democrats Can’t Figure Out How to Respond.
15.07.2025 10

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Trump Is Once Again Threatening to Nuke the Economy

Trump Is Once Again Threatening to Nuke the Economy
12.07.2025 10

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The Expensive, Seductive Strategy That Doomed the Democratic Party

The Expensive, Seductive Strategy That Doomed the Democratic Party
10.07.2025 20

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Why Did Mamdani Win the Mayoral Primary? It’s Probably Not That Complicated.

28.06.2025 30

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The World Waits With Bated Breath to See Which Donald Trump Will Be in Charge Next Week

21.06.2025 10

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This Country Deserves a Better Class of Cynical, Pandering Centrist Politician

17.06.2025 20

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We Are Entering Uncharted Territory Here, Folks

13.06.2025 40

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Excerpts From the Memoir of a Marine Deployed to Los Angeles in 2025

11.06.2025 10

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What a Day in the Trump Administration!

06.06.2025 60

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Great News From Congress: Another Democrat Has Gotten a Book Contract!

28.05.2025 3

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In John Fetterman, Democrats Wanted a Regular Guy. And Boy, Did They Get One!

13.05.2025 10

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The United States Must Retaliate Against Whatever Aquatic Demon Is Dragging Its Fancy Fighter Planes to the Watery Depths

09.05.2025 50

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Play-It-Safe Democrats Were Wrong Again

26.04.2025 10

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The Controversy That Said It All About America Under Trump—and Where We’re Headed Now

18.04.2025 9

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Trump Claims Victory for “Art of the Deal” Despite Total Absence of Deal

10.04.2025 20

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Quite a Day for the Stock Market (Derogatory)!

08.04.2025 20

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Market Reacting Poorly to Trump’s Launch of Huge, Nonsensical Tariffs That May Have Been Created by a Chatbot

04.04.2025 20

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CEOs and Normal Humans Are Starting to Agree: On Trump and the Economy, They’ve Made a Huge Mistake

02.04.2025 80

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Trump Hates Fentanyl but Loves Crypto. There’s a Contradiction There!

28.03.2025 7

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You Know It’s a Bad Situation When Trump Seems to Be the Most Honest Person Involved

27.03.2025 10

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This Anti-DEI Stuff Is Sounding a Whole Lot Like Something Else!

20.03.2025 20

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Nazi-Adjacent DOGE Kids Are Overruling the Secretary of State? Am I Hearing This Right?

26.02.2025 20

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Huh, It Turns Out Voters Don’t Want Elon Musk to Destroy the Government

22.02.2025 10

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Why Did Trump Take All the Eggs?

20.02.2025 10

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What the DOGE Takeover Really Means

14.02.2025 30

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Bad News About Some of Those DOGE Staffers

08.02.2025 50

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What in God’s Name Is Elon Musk Doing?

03.02.2025 2

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Trump’s Habit of Breaking Everything Sure Is Teaching Me a Lot That I Wish I Didn’t Have to Learn

01.02.2025 20

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So Much for the Trump Funding Freeze—or, Wait, Maybe Not

30.01.2025 10

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Things Are Going Off the Rails. It’s Time for Mayor Pete to Step In.

28.01.2025 2

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Democrats Have No Idea What to Do About the Egg Thing

28.01.2025 20

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Why “Is Trump a Nazi?” Is the Wrong Question

24.01.2025 3

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The Only Explanation You Need for What’s Happened to America Is Right There, Taunting Us All

23.01.2025 10

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Ivanka Trump Has Emerged to Express Some Thoughts on the Seriousness of the Presidency

15.01.2025 20

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You Know Who Else Blamed a Major Fire on a Global Conspiracy of His Political Enemies?

10.01.2025 30

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Huh, I Wonder What the Political Svengalis Calling for “Populism” Said About Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren

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03.01.2025 3

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This Popular Theory About Why Democrats Lost Has Some Glaring Holes

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19.12.2024 20

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I’ve Been Informed by a Member of Congress That an Iranian “Mothership” Is Buzzing My House With Drones?

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12.12.2024 6

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Trump’s Bozo Nominee to Be Defense Secretary Is Faltering. His Potential Replacement Is Really Something.

Tweet Share Share Comment Nominating Fox News personality Pete Hegseth to be secretary of defense was, from the start, one of the least serious...

04.12.2024 5

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I for One Think Kash Patel Is a Great Choice to Lead the FBI

Tweet Share Share Comment It has come to our attention that President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he will be nominating Kash Patel, a...

03.12.2024 30

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A Troubling Takeaway From Trump’s Cabinet Picks

Tweet Share Share Comment Presidential transition season in Washington has a customary rhythm. About 20 people get nominated for Cabinet positions...

28.11.2024 10

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They Found Something Called the “Doomsday Fish” but It’s Probably Fine

Tweet Share Share Comment What a week it’s been! But hey, we made it through. Time to crack a cold one, put up our feet, and browse the New York...

23.11.2024 30

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Trump Appoints Hot Tub–Toilet Scam Character From First Term as U.S. Representative to NATO

Tweet Share Share Comment One of the more delightfully dumb and blessedly low-impact storylines of the first Donald Trump administration involved a...

22.11.2024 40

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Whew, That’s a Lot of Smoke Around Matt Gaetz Already

Tweet Share Share Comment Since we wrote last week that Donald Trump seems to have homed in on “having been on TV” as the main qualification he’s...

20.11.2024 3

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The Trump Cabinet Is a Clown Car So Far. Thank God.

Tweet Share Share Comment One of the concerns that Democrats and other observers have raised about a potential second Trump administration is that...

14.11.2024 10

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Everyone Can Rest for Four Years. I Know Who the Democrats Should Nominate in 2028.

Tweet Share Share Comment Well, the intra-Democratic meltdown over Kamala Harris’ loss was not put to rest by my eloquent piece from last week, it...

13.11.2024 5

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There Are Some Giant Holes in One Popular Explanation for Why Kamala Harris Lost

Tweet Share Share Comment The recrimination game among Democrats and pundits is on in a big way, and a major theme is the idea that the party has...

08.11.2024 10

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Some Ideas About What Vice President J.D. Vance Will Be Like

Tweet Share Share Comment Not too long ago, things did not look that great for J.D. Vance. He’d decided to run as a Republican for U.S. Senate in...

07.11.2024 4

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