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The night the tide turned against Trump and Musk

02.04.2025 5

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E.j. Dionne Jr

Washington’s new archbishop is progressive, outspoken — and ready to stand up

18.03.2025 3

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Democrats, forget 2024. Defending democracy in 2025 is what matters now.

09.02.2025 70

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Jimmy Carter and liberalism’s lost opportunity

08.01.2025 2

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The opposition to Trump isn’t inert. It’s reflecting — and that’s good.

29.12.2024 10

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Trump and Musk can’t take away my hope in government

24.12.2024 40

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Progressives should defend Biden’s legacy to protect their future

Besides the president and his staff, who should care about how Joe Biden’s policy legacy is judged? Everyone who believes that government should...

15.12.2024 4

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Containing Trump 2.0 requires new strategies — and the best of the old

05.12.2024 30

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My hometown broke its 100-year Democratic streak. What can that teach us?

Every Thanksgiving, Fall River ranks high on my gratitude list. The venerable mill town in southeastern Massachusetts imparted many of the values I...

30.11.2024 100

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The lessons in progressives’ hidden 2024 victories

25.11.2024 30

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Trump will take office as a lame duck. That could matter — a lot.

Fourteen words should guide how citizens and politicians approach the next four years: “No person shall be elected to the office of the President...

17.11.2024 1

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Did you miss the Trump surge? So did I. What can we learn?

There’s a style of political autopsy designed mostly to demonstrate the genius of the pathologist: Dear candidate, if you had followed my advice,...

08.11.2024 30

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If Trump loses Pennsylvania, he’ll have no one to blame but himself

LANCASTER, Pa. — “We were the best kind of Republicans,” Stella Sexton says proudly, pointing to the foundational role in the GOP played by one...

04.11.2024 50

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Sherrod Brown is testing a new pro-worker playbook in Ohio

HEBRON, Ky. — You would be forgiven if you mistook Sen. Sherrod Brown for an enthusiastic journalist as he interviewed one hard-hatted iron worker...

28.10.2024 40

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Kamala Harris’s closing argument: Donald Trump’s own words

DETROIT — Vice President Kamala Harris has an indispensable ally as she closes her presidential campaign. She carries messages from him nearly...

21.10.2024 100

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Vance’s debate performance was a breathtaking exercise in sane-washing

JD Vance demonstrated something important at Tuesday’s vice-presidential debate: Except on immigration, the Ohio Republican senator knows that a...

03.10.2024 80

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Tim Walz is the perfect foil to the GOP’s performative anti-elitism

Who is the elitist? One person has a bachelor’s degree from Chadron State College in Nebraska. His master’s comes from Minnesota State University...

23.09.2024 80

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Harris can end the Trump-Vance culture wars. Here’s how.

Now that she has routed Donald Trump on the debate stage, Vice President Kamala Harris needs to take the next step and reinforce her campaign’s...

15.09.2024 90

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Harris can win the debate by making it about who’s hopeful — and normal

HORSHAM, Pa. — Just days before what might be the only debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump, business...

08.09.2024 20

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How Harris’s promise of 2010 triumphed over the pain of 2020

It’s a routine mistake to see politics and policy as disconnected — to cast “politics” as some grubby, self-interested thing and “policy” as an...

01.09.2024 20

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Kamala Harris wants to extend her honeymoon — but is ready if it ends

How long will her critics underestimate her? She only needs 100 days. Vice President Harris speaks at the White House on Thursday. (Julia...

28.07.2024 30

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