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Trump’s Crackerjack Cabinet Is a Fiasco Foretold

Trump’s Crackerjack Cabinet Is a Fiasco Foretold

Pete Hegseth & Co. weren’t chosen for their competence.

27.03.2025 100

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Why Trump Can’t Quit Biden

Why Trump Can’t Quit Biden

Smearing his predecessor is inoculation from his own incompetence.

21.03.2025 100

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‘He Has to Shrink Away From Greatness’: The Poignant Surrender of a Republican Under Trump

It is very hard to be principled, independent or any of those other bygone adjectives in today’s G.O.P.

15.03.2025 20

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America Can’t Be Great if America Is Stupid

Trump’s attack on higher education and scientific research undermines some of our most competitive advantages.

13.03.2025 100

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The Chump in Trump

In his telling, all the world’s a con, and Americans merely marks.

07.03.2025 100

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Susan Collins and Her Cowardly Caucus Bow Down to Trump

No nominee — not Kennedy, not Gabbard — is a provocateur too far for Senate Republicans.

13.02.2025 10

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The Blue Devils Made Me Do It

What I learned at my first-ever Duke-U.N.C. basketball game.

06.02.2025 60

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When Did Brains Fall So Far Out of Fashion?

Blunt language and brute force are the currencies of the MAGA moment.

31.01.2025 100

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Trump Takes a Red Pen to History

The president’s Jan. 6 pardons mark a terrifying new chapter in blurring the past.

24.01.2025 70

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Republicans in North Carolina Are Treading a Terrifying Path

They’re trying to overturn a fair election. Gee, who gave them that idea?

18.01.2025 100

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What if Trump Doesn’t Need to Keep Any of His Promises?

For the 47th president, illusion is the new accountability.

25.12.2024 100

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Oh, to Smell Like Trump

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13.12.2024 50

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Trump’s Cabinet Will Be an Embarrassment of Wretches

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05.12.2024 5

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Can the Senate Survive Donald Trump?

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22.11.2024 30

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Newsom? Whitmer? Shapiro? 2024 Could Kill Their 2028 Dreams.

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14.11.2024 3

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Why Trump’s Conniptions Beat Harris’s ‘Kumbaya’

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07.11.2024 10

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There Are Battleground States — and Then There’s North Carolina

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06.11.2024 30

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Biden’s Stake in This Election Is Like Nobody Else’s

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31.10.2024 20

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Elon Musk, Robert Kennedy and the Unconfirmables of a Second Trump Administration

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24.10.2024 20

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‘No One’s Life Is More Important to Him Than His’: Chris Christie on Trump and the Politicization of Disaster Relief

How did we get here?

11.10.2024 60

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Kamala Harris Puts Sarah Huckabee Sanders in Her Unhumble Place

Parents have no monopoly on modesty.

10.10.2024 2

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JD Vance Is Smoother — but No Better — Than Donald Trump

Do not use normal appraisals for an abnormal election.

04.10.2024 200

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‘I Cannot Have That Man Be My Governor’: Inside Josh Stein’s Bid to Beat Mark Robinson in North Carolina

Josh Stein is fighting to prevent a MAGA takeover of North Carolina.

23.09.2024 30

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Why Can’t Kamala Harris Just Say This?

Here’s a script with which she could explain her evolution.

20.09.2024 8

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Donald Trump Made a Raving, Rambling Fool of Himself in That Debate

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11.09.2024 2

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Trump Should Be Scared — Very Scared — of Debating Kamala Harris

If she keeps her cool, he’ll surely lose his.

29.08.2024 6

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Donald Trump, Prince of Self-Pity

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08.08.2024 2

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Whitmer, Buttigieg and the Veeps Who Might Have Been

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01.08.2024 1

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Strong Women Are Driving Donald Trump Crazy

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25.07.2024 6

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