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David Rothkopf

Chicago Tribune

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Trump Is Quickly Becoming the World’s Kidney Stone

wednesday 50

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Trump Is the Icarus of Lies. Is He Too Close to the Sun?

27.07.2025 30

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Who Really Thinks the ‘Epstein Files’ Will Harm Trump?

15.07.2025 10

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How Trump Is Getting Away With Murder. Literally

10.07.2025 10

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Trump’s Big Budget Bill Is a Brutal Breakup With His Base

03.07.2025 50

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Trump Doesn’t Need the Nobel Prize. He Needs an Intervention

25.06.2025 60

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Why Trump’s Ego is More Dangerous than Iran’s Nuclear Threat

22.06.2025 10

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Why Trump’s War on Democrats Threatens Democracy Itself

18.06.2025 20

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We Better Pray That No Unexpected Crisis Hits While Trump Is President

17.06.2025 30

New Republic

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Trump Has Us On His Escalator to Hell—But There is a Way Off

17.06.2025 10

The Daily Beast

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How Iran Puts Trump’s Impotence on Full Embarrassing Display

14.06.2025 100

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Is Trump’s Birthday Parade a Celebration or a Funeral?

11.06.2025 40

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It’s Summer in Trump’s America and Fascism Is in Bloom

09.06.2025 100

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Don’t Let Your Glee Make You Forget Your Loathing

06.06.2025 80

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Why Dems Have a Secret Super-Spreading Epidemic: Trump Envy

31.05.2025 10

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What Do We Even Call Our Current Trump Catastrophe?

28.05.2025 30

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Trump’s Budget Bill Marks a Murder-Suicide Pact for America

22.05.2025 40

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Trump Thinks He’s All Powerful. He’s Got It All Wrong

16.05.2025 9

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Is Trump Out-of-Touch, Senile, Nuts or Something Worse?

11.05.2025 200

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The Real Reason Trump Fired Waltz: He Dared to Give Advice

02.05.2025 30

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Naming the Big Winners From Trump’s Terrible First 100 Days

01.05.2025 10

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The Worst First 100 Days of Any Administration in History

29.04.2025 100

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Trump Is Showing Us How to Defeat Trumpism

27.04.2025 20

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Hegseth’s Pentagon Crisis Is So Much Worse Than You Think

22.04.2025 80

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The Real Power Players in President Trump’s Administration

19.04.2025 6

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The Supreme Court Majority Has Ruled Itself Out of Business

16.04.2025 60

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We All Know Trump’s Losing It. What if the U.S. Is Too?

08.04.2025 30

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As Golden Ages Go, This One Sucks

06.04.2025 20

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Why Trump’s Tariffs Are Nothing More than a Mafia Don Racket

05.04.2025 100

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Why Mad King Trump’s Loony Edicts Risk America as We Know It

30.03.2025 60

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Prove Us All Wrong by Firing Your Lying Nitwits, Mr. Trump

27.03.2025 10

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Why Signal Shambles Isn’t Trump F***wits’ Worst Move so Far

25.03.2025 30

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Yes, Democrats Are Failing in This Moment. But So Is Trump

22.03.2025 10

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Trump Thinks He Humiliated Zelensky. He Really Humiliated Us

01.03.2025 200

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America, It’s Time to Dump Elon Musk

27.02.2025 40

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Laughing Off Trump’s Agenda Would Be a Fatal Error

19.02.2025 20

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Yes, It’s a Coup and Yes, It’s Targeting You

05.02.2025 550

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Sorry Pete, Your Dream Job Is Just Clean-Up on Aisle Five

30.01.2025 10

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Ten Reasons Dems Are Low-Key Hopeful for Trump’s Second Term

22.01.2025 30

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Why It’s Not Just The Weather That’s Chilling D.C. Right Now

18.01.2025 5

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Under Trump’s Thumb, Zuckerberg Has No F---s Left to Give

08.01.2025 5

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Jimmy Carter Was the Anti-Trump Who Made America Great

31.12.2024 20

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Three Presidents. One Country. What Could Go Wrong?

20.12.2024 30

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Trump Should Dump Kash Patel & Pete Hegseth for His Own Good

Friends don’t let friends drive drunk. Similarly, supporters of the next president should not let him drive the nominations process for his new...

04.12.2024 30

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Why Trump’s Clown Cabinet of Deplorables Is a No-Joke Circus

There has never been a week like this one in the long history of U.S. presidential transitions. There have of course, over the past two and a half...

16.11.2024 50

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Opinion: Trump Having Putin on Speed Dial Isn’t Funny, It’s Terrifying

So, let me get this straight, according to Bob Woodward’s new book War, Donald Trump was sitting in Mar-a-Lago on a trove of stolen U.S. national...

09.10.2024 30

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Opinion: The Real Losers of the Walz-Vance Debate: Every Voter Watching It

There is no question that the big loser at Tuesday night’s CBS vice presidential debate was the audience. It is not just that the debate was...

02.10.2024 10

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Opinion: The Worst Political Violence of 2024 May Lie Ahead—Thanks to Trump

It says something about the times in which we live that a second apparent assassination attempt against a former U.S. president is not the most...

17.09.2024 5

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Opinion: Kamala Harris Won Debate by a Knockout—but Her Fight Is Far From Over

If Tuesday night’s presidential debate were a boxing match it might have been stopped by the referees in its very first moments when Kamala Harris...

11.09.2024 10

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Opinion: Why Trump and Putin Now Need Each Other—Desperately

When Donald Trump first heard on Thursday morning that Vladimir Putin had endorsed Kamala Harris for president, he must have been shattered. Not...

06.09.2024 20

The Daily Beast

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