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Catherine Rampell

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There are big, ugly problems at the center of the House budget bill

10.05.2025 40

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As Trump destroys the economy, GOP and Wall Street execs stay mum

27.04.2025 100

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Trump is killing one of our strongest exports

17.04.2025 650

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Why are Democrats pulling their punches on Trump’s disastrous trade war?

13.04.2025 100

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Who will tell Trump he’s naked?

08.04.2025 80

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The GOP has an Orwellian solution to pay for Trump’s tax cuts

05.04.2025 200

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Lord, liberate us from Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’

01.04.2025 80

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How (not) to keep Jews safe

27.03.2025 100

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How DOGE is making government almost comically inefficient

22.03.2025 300

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Two forces are sinking the global economy. Both trace back to Trump.

18.03.2025 5

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Wall Street is simply flabbergasted that Trump is wrecking the economy

14.03.2025 400

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No harm, no fowl: Trump recommends a return to subsistence farming

10.03.2025 200

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Cuts for thee, but not for me: Republicans beg for DOGE exemptions

25.02.2025 100

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Why Gen Z men love Trump’s reign of destruction

25.02.2025 100

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The GOP is pushing a false choice

19.02.2025 200

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When the arsonist demands praise for his firefighting skills

08.02.2025 100

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Turns out Rubio and Bessent are spineless, too

04.02.2025 9

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Americans are watching an inflation bait-and-switch

29.01.2025 200

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The immigrant crackdown has begun. Its first target might surprise you.

26.01.2025 100

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Trump finds a new way for foreign governments to pay him off: Crypto

22.01.2025 200

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Scott Bessent’s funny math would make his GOP predecessors blush

16.01.2025 60

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Society is making you sick, GOP says. Too bad their plans will make you sicker.

14.01.2025 5

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What does the Laken Riley Act have to do with Laken Riley? Almost nothing.

10.01.2025 60

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The legacy of Bidenomics: Maybe not much at all

07.01.2025 10

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How Biden betrayed union workers by giving them what they wanted

07.01.2025 30

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Ozempic economics: How GLP-1s will disrupt the economy in 2025

01.01.2025 100

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Oops! Consumers finally realize that Trump could worsen inflation.

27.12.2024 300

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Trump and Musk have ‘Art of the Deal’-ed themselves

24.12.2024 100

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Make America the Great Depression Again: Trump’s plan to kill the FDIC

17.12.2024 4

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Fan club for suspected shooter is a symptom of burn-it-all-down populism

Robin Hood. Folk Hero. Hottie. Glorification of Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson this month, has...

14.12.2024 70

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The GOP’s top priority for 2025: Repeal the laws of arithmetic

What will Republicans prioritize when they regain their government trifecta next month? A tax overhaul? Energy production? Border security? Nope....

11.12.2024 200

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Return-to-work mandates are an invisible pay cut

Job growth rebounded in November, the Labor Department reported Friday. But red flags were buried in that superficially gleeful report. Among them:...

07.12.2024 30

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Mad about Hunter Biden’s shady deals? You should care about these, too.

03.12.2024 100

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Trump’s tariffs on Mexico and Canada won’t reduce grocery prices

27.11.2024 100

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This is Trump’s real ‘mandate’

Donald Trump apparently has an all-purpose, get-out-of-jail-free card: his “mandate.” “America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate,”...

26.11.2024 20

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A confrontation between Trump and the Fed might be inevitable

21.11.2024 50

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An interview with Fed Chair Jerome Powell

The Federal Reserve is very close to achieving the (almost) impossible: conquering inflation without crashing the economy, a rare outcome known as a...

15.11.2024 3

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Trump’s great government purge begins

14.11.2024 2

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Why Trump should take credit for Biden’s economy

09.11.2024 100

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What legacy media got right this election

05.11.2024 40

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If elected, Trump will make you and your family less safe

Donald Trump styles himself as the law-and-order candidate, but he’s a loser on this issue for a simple reason: He struggles to differentiate good...

01.11.2024 50

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Only care about your pocketbook? Trump is still the wrong choice.

So what if Donald Trump admires Nazis? That’s old news, the former president’s allies retort. Besides, voters only care about their pocketbooks...

29.10.2024 3

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Here’s how Trump could curb national abortion access — unilaterally

26.10.2024 50

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Voters prefer Harris’s agenda to Trump’s — they just don’t realize it. Take our quiz.

23.10.2024 750

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What might raising a family look like in a Harris presidency? Look to Flint.

FLINT, Mich. — If you want to know what raising a family might look like under a Kamala Harris presidency, look to this Rust Belt city. For years,...

19.10.2024 100

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This One Weird Trick is the best way to help workers, study finds

09.10.2024 100

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Why Trump is losing his edge among voters on the economy

09.10.2024 100

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Don’t chicken out of eating lab-made meat. It could change the world.

01.10.2024 4

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The real Eric Adams scandal: Is this guy the best NYC had to offer?

27.09.2024 20

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Trump gets compared with history’s great villain because his rhetoric is that bad

25.09.2024 850

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