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The winners of Trump's tariff "game show" are in for a rude surprise

Trump’s toxic union of media, entertainment and politics comes to a head

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"Just the first set of cuts": Expert warns GOP budget is designed to collapse the social safety net

"Wealthy Americans, on the other hand, would have a larger share of the economic pie"

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America has a bad case of TDS

America has a bad case of TDS

There is little funny about the tragedy that is the Age of Trump and Donald Trump's return to the White House

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The Trump-MAGA experience machine goes into overdrive

The Trump-MAGA experience machine goes into overdrive

As the president's victory march comes to a slow, MAGA's parallel universe of propaganda ramps up

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The media learned all the wrong lessons from 2024

The media learned all the wrong lessons from 2024

Why the press is ramping up its acts of anticipatory obedience to the Trump regime

28.03.2025 10

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Sadopolitics: Why MAGA clings tighter to Trump the more his policies hurt them

Sadopolitics: Why MAGA clings tighter to Trump the more his policies hurt them

Psychology helps to explain why Trump’s followers will not abandon him

27.03.2025 60

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How moving can help beat MAGA: "We need to revive mobility"

How moving can help beat MAGA:

Yoni Appelbaum on how the housing crisis is fueling America’s political polarization

26.03.2025 20

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The danger of Trump's "shock therapy" for America

The danger of Trump's

If happiness is connected to larger anti-democratic trends, then America's future is dire

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How our public schools are tied to the health of our democracy

How our public schools are tied to the health of our democracy

If you think our democracy is struggling now, imagine a day when our schools are segregated by race

24.03.2025 10

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"No future election is going to fix the problem": Trump's war on education is worse than it looks

Legal scholar Derek Black: America's schools are being targeted by Trump in a way that fuels autocratic populism

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Trump's takeover depends on creating this alternate reality

How Trump appears to be a master of the impossible

17.03.2025 20

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Democrats should forget about having a united message

Political science professor M. Steven Fish on why the Dems don't need to pander to polls to fight for justice

12.03.2025 10

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The end of MAGA's dominance: "The American people see the Democrats take down Trump themselves"

Political scientist M. Steven Fish explains that otherwise Trump is "going to seem like a boss"

11.03.2025 10

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"Just getting started”: We have yet to see the worst of Trump's "spectocracy"

During his address to Congress, Trump bragged and threatened that his administration “is just getting started”

10.03.2025 10

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How Trump's "bad manners undermine his geopolitics"

Author Robert Kaplan explains Trump's beef with NATO: "A fairer society will also be the most militarily dynamic"

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"We are seeing the backlash to globalization": Robert Kaplan says Trump was "inevitable"

Bestselling foreign affairs expert: "Trump has blemished America’s reputation" — but liberal democracy will endure

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Saving democracy takes practice: Practical skills you need to survive Trump's second term

Resistance is resilience: How Americans can personally guard against the devastating impacts of Trumpism

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MAGA left dizzy by Trump's "shock and awe" spectacle

Media critic Dan Froomkin: "I don’t think we are even vaguely ready for what’s coming"

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The draw of Trump's spectacle: inhumanity

Democrats and the resistance must harness real populist energy now. The time for recalibration and rest is over

25.02.2025 10

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"The media are aware of the manipulation": Countering Trump's spectacle begins with a press strategy

When media carry this real oppression and suffering as programming, it trivializes the harm that is being done

24.02.2025 10

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MAGA's not-so-secret weapon: "Major media are a key tool for Trump’s destruction of the government"

One month into his second term, President Donald Trump’s shock and awe campaign against America’s multiracial democracy — and the very idea of...

21.02.2025 3

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Trump's plan to avert a constitutional crisis: "Put pressure on the courts to make some concessions"

Brennan Center lawyer: "I do not believe that there is any outcome in the US Supreme Court that is inevitable"

19.02.2025 2

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Trump's shock and awe campaign rocks the courts

Brennan Center lawyer explains "there are a number of tools that judges have access to for enforcement purposes"

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The path of best resistance: "Faith-rooted messaging would help build broader political support"

"We need a lot more courage and fortitude right now"

12.02.2025 9

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How to resist Elon Musk's hostile takeover and avoid Donald Trump's "broken status quo" trap

"Protecting our democracy is not about protecting a broken status quo"

11.02.2025 10

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Donald Trump's chaos strategy: Why Americans continue to fall for his game of distraction

At the root of Trumpism's rapid ascendance, and the pitiful resistance to it, is a profound failure of imagination

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New rules for radical resistance in the accelerated age of Trump

Donald Trump is acting above the law — and the opposition can no longer cower in the corner

06.02.2025 5

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"Americans were sleep-marched into fascism": Signs of creeping authoritarianism we can't miss again

Americans have "no lived experience of what happens when oligarchs sink their fangs into a country"

03.02.2025 40

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"They will fail through incompetence": Trump's bumpy return to office should worry MAGA

"We are also seeing the acceptance of a degree of corruption that has little equal in American history"

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Trump's first week: "Designed to destroy the United States from within"

America is "trapped in the ugly nexus of an abusive leader" who can't be satisfied — but must be confronted

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"Just as bad as we feared": Experts on the chaos and carnage of Trump's first week

Trump's first-week performance was calculated, expected — and highly traumatic. What happens next will be crucial

28.01.2025 40

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Surviving "political grief": You're not alone, and there is a path forward

27.01.2025 30

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"We must save ourselves": America's crippling cynicism helps Donald Trump

"Millions of Americans don’t feel our democracy can deliver for them"

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It's time to ditch toxic social media platforms

To survive Trump's return, Dr. Gail Christopher heeds, "we must practice disciplines that calm our nervous system"

21.01.2025 10

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Hope is at the heart of "healthy mourning": Finding positivity while grieving Donald Trump's return

Dr. Gail Christopher on the "balance of positive thoughts to trigger positive emotions"

21.01.2025 20

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Democrats' defeat leads to "demobilization and surrender" ahead of Trump's inauguration

"Immediate action will be required to slow down Trump's 'shock and awe' campaign"

17.01.2025 40

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"Small acts of resistance": Retooling "what protecting democracy looks like" in a second Trump term

A conversation with Virginia Kase Solomón, president and CEO of Common Cause, ahead of Donald Trump's inaugaration

15.01.2025 6

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"There will be no rebuilding": Bracing America for the implementation of Project 2025

Donald Trump's return to power further undermines America's self-image of greatness

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The week Donald Trump became a great man of history

It came via the Democrats' opening act of submission

09.01.2025 10

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"The entertainment of MAGA infighting" is a trap

On Monday, Donald Trump was officially certified by Congress as the winner of the 2024 Electoral College vote. Vice President Kamala Harris, who...

08.01.2025 4

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Hard lessons the opposition has learned in defeat

I recently purchased a 2025 calendar from the local dollar store. I am marking each day on the calendar with a big “X” as I count down the next two...

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"I refuse to be trolled": How to resist Trump and maintain peace

American democracy and society have been sick for a long time. Donald Trump’s election to the White House in 2016 was a symptom and not the cause...

06.01.2025 5

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A glossary for a second Trump term

2024’s Words of the Year reflect the anxieties, brokenness and the larger crisis of meaning that gave birth to Donald Trump’s return to power in...

27.12.2024 5

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Why Democrats can't get over the grief of losing to Donald Trump

Following their trouncing by Donald Trump and the MAGA movement in the 2024 election, Democrats continue to plod through the stages of grief,...

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"Trump has no real mandate for what he is planning": The push for Christian nationalism may backfire

Donald Trump has promised to be a dictator on “day one” of his administration. Based on his already-announced plans and those in process, Trump,...

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Reversing the "weaponization of Christianity": How "religous freedom" can be used to fight Trumpism

Donald Trump’s role as the country’s first white president is obvious and omnipresent. He campaigned on white identity politics, racism and...

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Democrats face America's new self-evident truths

In a perfect world, Democrats would have a leader who lives and leads by the principle that “the buck stops here.” Unfortunately for the...

13.12.2024 40

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Democrats' grief is Donald Trump's best tool of distraction

The Democratic Party is still licking its wounds after being badly beaten by Donald Trump and his MAGA movement in the 2024 election. Here are some...

11.12.2024 5

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When facts no longer matter: 3 key steps to return to civil dialogue

Donald Trump will become the next president of the United States on Jan. 20, 2025. Although some have deluded themselves into thinking the...

10.12.2024 40

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America's addicted to the “destruction narrative”

The Age of Trump is a symptom of much deeper and older problems in American society and life. Specifically, how there is a deep brokenness and...

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