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Why Trump’s tariffs could live forever 

President Donald Trump’s tariffs are slowing economic growth, raising prices, undermining American manufacturing, marginalizing the US...

06.08.2025 7

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Turns out the Trump economy is not doing so well after all

The US economy is bending — but not yet breaking — beneath the weight of President Donald Trump’s nationalist agenda. That is the story told by...

04.08.2025 30

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5 reasons Democrats are in good shape — and 2 reasons they’re in deep trouble

The Democratic Party’s approval rating is at its lowest point in at least 35 years, according to a Wall Street Journal poll released last week.  In...

01.08.2025 10

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Democrats are right to flirt with Trump-Epstein conspiracies

Democrats want you to know that President Donald Trump definitely might be protecting a cabal of child abusers. Or so the party’s recent messaging...

18.07.2025 3

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The lie at the heart of Trump’s entire economic agenda

With his tax agenda finally passed, Donald Trump has turned back to his true passion: making America poorer and more geopolitically isolated for no...

16.07.2025 10

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The wrong lesson to take from Trump’s gutting of Medicaid

Last week, the Senate passed the largest cut to America’s welfare state in modern history. President Donald Trump’s inaptly named “One Big...

09.07.2025 6

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California just showed that a better Democratic Party is possible

California just demolished a major obstacle to housing construction within its borders — and provided Democrats with a blueprint for better...

03.07.2025 10

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The most surprising victim of Trump’s terrible tax agenda

The Republican Party’s saving grace is supposed to be its commitment to economic growth and consumer abundance.  Sure, the GOP may see unemployed...

30.06.2025 10

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What Democrats can (and can’t) learn from Zohran Mamdani’s triumph

This theory could very well be wrong. But a socialist winning 43.5 percent of the vote in a Democratic primary in New York City does not tell us much...

25.06.2025 10

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3 ways Americans could pay for Trump’s war with Iran

President Donald Trump has framed his strikes on Iran as a costless triumph. The president is not asking Americans to accept sacrifices in service of...

23.06.2025 5

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The top priority of progressive politics may be slipping out of reach forever

Four years ago, America was on the cusp of the largest expansion of its welfare state since the 1960s.  Under Joe Biden in 2021, House Democrats...

20.06.2025 6

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Trump is frustrated by his own success on immigration

In recent days, mass protests in Los Angeles have dominated the headlines. Images of demonstrators facing off with National Guard members and flaming...

12.06.2025 4

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Is the decline of reading poisoning our politics?

If you aren’t feeling the itch yet, you will soon.  It could come by the end of this sentence or, on a good day, the fifth paragraph. But before...

03.06.2025 9

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Democrats should debate messaging less (and policy more)

In the months since Kamala Harris’s defeat, Democrats have debated the party’s political and policy mistakes. This argument has centered in part...

02.06.2025 3

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Why the right wants to ban this innovation before you get to try it

Conservatives want the government to dictate what you can and cannot eat. Or so Republican policymaking increasingly suggests. Earlier this month,...

29.05.2025 3

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3 takeaways from the most authoritative autopsy of the 2024 election yet

It’s been more than six months, but Democrats are still picking over the cold, dead body of the 2024 election. The latest autopsy comes courtesy of...

27.05.2025 20

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Biden cost Democrats the 2024 election — but not in the way you think

Joe Biden lost it before he even won the presidency. This is the most notable revelation in Original Sin, a new book-length exposé of the Biden White...

20.05.2025 4

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The tariffs are here. Inflation isn’t. What gives?

Over the course of April, President Donald Trump imposed large tariffs on goods from every country in the world, pushing America’s average levy on...

13.05.2025 3

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Can Democrats win over Trump voters with this one issue?

Many liberals would like the Democratic Party to put climate change at the center of its messaging and policy agenda. They would also like Democrats...

09.05.2025 6

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How Trump could make Americans permanently poorer

The immediate costs of President Donald Trump’s trade war are fairly clear. Prices for imported goods are rising while economic growth is slowing....

05.05.2025 3

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Why Trump is losing his trade war with China

In recent days, Donald Trump has signaled eagerness to reach a trade agreement with China. The president said Tuesday that his 145 percent tariffs...

25.04.2025 9

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Democrats can afford to fight for Kilmar Abrego Garcia

President Donald Trump has been sending undocumented immigrants to a mega prison in El Salvador without due process. Most of these deportees have no...

24.04.2025 10

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Silicon Valley got Trump completely wrong

Last year, a coterie of tech billionaires rallied behind Donald Trump’s candidacy. Many had not been lifelong Republicans. In 2016, the venture...

18.04.2025 20

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Trump’s tariffs are Democrats’ golden opportunity. Are they botching it?

President Donald Trump has launched a global trade war, raising prices and tanking stocks in the process. His approval rating is in free fall. And...

10.04.2025 9

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The questionable assumption fueling the stock market rally

President Donald Trump beat a partial — and possibly temporary — retreat from the most radical version of his trade agenda Wednesday.  One week...

10.04.2025 30

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America may be headed for this rare type of economic crisis

President Donald Trump’s decision to impose large tariffs on all foreign imports has triggered a global trade war — and predictions of an imminent...

07.04.2025 20

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Trump’s tariffs are a doomed attempt at time travel

President Donald Trump’s defenders often frame his trade policies as prioritizing economic development over the free market.  In their telling,...

03.04.2025 3

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How Trump’s tariffs will affect the economy and your wallet

Donald Trump has said that “tariff” is the “most beautiful word in the dictionary.” And throughout his first months in office, the president...

01.04.2025 10

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Does moderation actually hurt Democratic candidates?

Earlier this month, Thomas Edsall published a column in the New York Times titled, “Even if the Democrats can move to the center, it may not...

28.03.2025 10

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Cutting red tape is a social justice issue

When a Democrat contemplates their nation’s biggest problems today, minimum lot sizes in suburban housing codes probably don’t rank very high on...

20.03.2025 20

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This is why Kamala Harris really lost

Democrats have spent months debating how and why they lost the 2024 election. But the full picture of what happened on Election Day is only now coming...

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Is the US headed for a recession?

Donald Trump has a gift for inheriting valuable things. And the economy of January 2025 was no exception.  When the president took office, stock...

13.03.2025 9

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Trump doesn’t seem to know why he launched a giant trade war

Donald Trump just imposed a 25 percent tariff on virtually all goods produced by America’s two largest trading partners — Canada and Mexico. He...

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Economic growth is slowing — so Trump wants to redefine “economic growth”

The government produces many of America’s most important economic indicators. And that data influences the media’s coverage of the economy, which...

04.03.2025 2

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The twisted appeal of Trump’s humiliation of Zelenskyy

Donald Trump scolded the president of Ukraine Friday afternoon for expressing excessive “hatred” for Vladimir Putin and inadequate gratitude for...

02.03.2025 40

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The Democrats are unpopular, rudderless — and on track for a comeback

The Democrats are historically unpopular, receiving exceptionally low marks from both the general public and their own voters. Yet the party is on...

28.02.2025 10

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Elon Musk’s worldview is eerily similar to his authoritarian grandad’s

Elon Musk might be the most powerful man in America.  Donald Trump has put his patron in charge of the federal bureaucracy, allowing Musk to tailor...

24.02.2025 10

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Some DEI programs aren’t worth defending

Donald Trump did not campaign on a promise to end the Pentagon’s celebration of Black History Month. Nor did the Republican air advertisements...

14.02.2025 10

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Why Trump’s new tariffs are such a strange idea

Donald Trump announced Monday that the US will impose a 25 percent tariff on all imports of steel and aluminum. The president has a habit of declaring...

11.02.2025 10

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America’s constitutional crisis could come to a head in four months

Just over two weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump has already thrown American democracy into crisis.  On his first day in office, the president...

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Is Trump’s trade war with Mexico and Canada over?

Donald Trump has incoherent and unhinged beliefs about trade policy.   He also has a penchant for pretending to be a “crazy guy” for the sake of...

04.02.2025 8

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How Democrats alienated Big Tech — and why it might not matter

In January 2017, Sergey Brin rallied beside progressive activists at San Francisco International Airport to protest Donald Trump’s travel ban. Eight...

31.01.2025 20

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Elon Musk and Bernie Sanders are both right about immigration

The H-1B visa program helps corporations replace US workers with cheap foreign laborers who lack basic rights. It also makes America wealthier. These...

22.01.2025 10

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Why Wall Street found Trump’s first day reassuring

Donald Trump has never been on better terms with corporate America. Yet his ostensible trade agenda has never been more antithetical to the interests...

21.01.2025 10

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There’s a very popular explanation for Trump’s win. It’s wrong.

Donald Trump did not win the 2024 election — the Democratic Party lost it. So argues Michael Podhorzer, a former political director of the AFL-CIO...

17.01.2025 10

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Have the past 10 years of Democratic politics been a disaster?

In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory last November, Matthew Yglesias published a manifesto imploring the Democratic Party to reembrace “common...

10.01.2025 5

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Trump and Musk actually made a good point on immigration

On New Year’s Eve, America’s most prominent nativist declared that the nation needs more immigrants.  “We need competent people, we need smart...

04.01.2025 5

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House Republicans just exposed the limits of Trump’s power

This week’s installment of the long-running saga, “House Republicans cannot govern,” will soon be forgotten. Elon Musk’s decision to blow up a...

20.12.2024 4

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How Democrats should — and shouldn’t — moderate on immigration

It’s likely that no social issue has cost Democrats more votes in recent years than immigration.  The Biden-Harris administration presided over...

20.12.2024 4

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Democrats’ problem with working-class voters is bigger than free trade

Democrats have lost ground with the working class for a simple reason: They became “globalist shills.” Under Bill Clinton’s leadership, the party...

13.12.2024 10

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