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Chaos economy: Trump's new tariffs signal dark days for America

How Trump thinks hitting Mexico and Canada with tariffs is supposed to solve America's drug problem is a mystery

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Trump's underlings inadvertently undermine his return

Trump's underlings inadvertently undermine his return

A well-oiled, systematic, authoritarian machine they aren't — but they can still do a whole lot of damage

saturday 30

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Trump still can't escape Jan. 6 — and ultimately, it will destroy him

Trump still can't escape Jan. 6 — and ultimately, it will destroy him

Trump will never face prosecution, but his deranged obsession with Jan. 6 is massively unpopular

29.01.2025 10

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Are there any real Republicans left? Tulsi, RFK Jr. offer them a chance to stand up

Are there any real Republicans left? Tulsi, RFK Jr. offer them a chance to stand up

Republicans capitulated on Pete Hegseth, though they knew better. Now come the most noxious nominees of all

27.01.2025 30

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Trumponomics is back: Tech-bros are delighted, but the price of eggs is soaring

Trumponomics is back: Tech-bros are delighted, but the price of eggs is soaring

Trump thinks he won by talking about the economy — and now he gets to wreck it and enrich his billionaire pals

24.01.2025 30

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Trump's "shock and awe" campaign hits the wrong targets

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Republicans scramble to defend Donald Trump's shocking decision to pardon nearly 1,500 Jan. 6 rioters

22.01.2025 8

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Trump's MAGA agenda is already stalled in Congress

Trump's MAGA agenda is already stalled in Congress

Republicans in Congress are so far behind in crafting a legislative agenda

17.01.2025 20

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Making American oligarchy great again

Making American oligarchy great again

Donald Trump has no idea what the billionaire tech titans suddenly flocking to his side are really after

15.01.2025 4

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Republicans see the LA wildfires as an opportunity to punish California

Republicans see the LA wildfires as an opportunity to punish California

People who refuse to do anything about the real crisis we're facing, climate change, pounce straight to punishment

13.01.2025 3

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Trump's minions are laying the groundwork for military action

Many people still don't have the stomach to follow politics these days after the disappointment of the last election and the return of the Trump...

08.01.2025 4

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Donald Trump has turned Jan. 6 into a triumph

Four years ago today while I watched on television as Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol during the joint session of Congress to stop the...

06.01.2025 10

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Mike Johnson is still fighting for his job because Donald Trump no longer has the juice

After a brief hiatus for the holidays, the circus is back in Washington, D.C., and the high-wire act of Speaker Mike Johnson and the Flying...

03.01.2025 8

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It's Elon Musk over MAGA: Donald Trump makes his pick

A couple of days after Christmas, Donald Trump posted something very odd, even by his standards. He accidentally posted a personal text to his BFF,...

30.12.2024 2

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Donald Trump's threats against foreign nations are not about revenge

One of the more annoying conceits of the MAGA cult is its insistence that Donald Trump is some kind of religious figure dedicated to bringing world...

23.12.2024 10

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Elon Musk just killed Donald Trump's honeymoon

Back in 2016, the whole country was left in shock when celebrity businessman Donald Trump managed to take over the Republican Party and win the...

20.12.2024 5

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The press is giving Donald Trump the George W. Bush treatment

President-elect Trump held his first press conference since the election this week and seemed surprised that he is suddenly so popular with all the...

18.12.2024 50

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Trump's corporate coronation: The rich rush to curry favor ahead of inauguration

In May of 2023, the world watched as Charles III was crowned King of England after his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, passed away at the age of 96....

16.12.2024 10

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Christopher Wray's cowardly exit: What's left when the FBI director acquiesces to Trump in advance?

One of the most famous episodes in the Watergate saga 50 years ago was when CBS News reporter Daniel Schorr got a hold of Richard Nixon's "enemies...

13.12.2024 20

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Republicans fall in line for Trump's Cabinet picks — but are they holding fire for a bigger battle?

If it feels as though the new Trump administration is taking shape at warp speed, that's because it is. It's unusual for an incoming administration...

11.12.2024 3

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Elon Musk can no longer hide Donald Trump's mess

Last month's presidential election was a disappointment, to say the least. Ever since then, it's felt as if the air has just been slowly leaking...

09.12.2024 7

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Donald Trump is not even bothering to hide the corruption this time

Last February, as Donald Trump was running for the Republican presidential nomination, he appeared at SneakerCon in Philadelphia to debut his...

06.12.2024 6

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Donald Trump is ready to make Republicans touch the third rail

There are a thousand election hot takes and post-mortems floating around these days and I'm sure we'll soon come to some consensus about what drove...

04.12.2024 7

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The (perceived) persecution of Kash Patel

Once upon a time, there was a Trump toadie who wrote a fatuous children's book about a good king being persecuted by an evil queen named Hillary...

02.12.2024 10

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Trump's hatchet woman: Pam Bondi is plotting revenge on the Department of Justice

Many Americans were sorely disappointed this week when special prosecutor Jack Smith decided to drag up and withdraw the Jan. 6 indictment and the...

27.11.2024 20

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Trump's brain drain: Fox News personalities tapped to become America's next top scientists, doctors

A couple of days after the election this year I wrote that I thought a lot of the anti-incumbent movement these past couple of years had to do with...

25.11.2024 30

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Donald Trump just blew up any concept of a MAGA mandate

Contrary to his customary bragging that he won the election in an unprecedented landslide, President Donald Trump's percentage of the popular vote...

22.11.2024 4

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What Donald Trump's revenge agenda is hiding

During the campaign, you may recall Donald Trump waxing on interminably during "the weave" about the time he watched Elon Musk's picture-perfect...

20.11.2024 20

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Trump preps a new red scare

I recently saw the movie "The Apprentice" about the relationship between Donald Trump and his mentor Roy Cohn, the notorious lawyer who was...

18.11.2024 3

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Donald Trump's win is a grim reminder: The COVID era hasn't ended

Now that we've had a chance to catch our breath a little bit and get through the grieving process over last Tuesday's election, the inevitable...

08.11.2024 10

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"Women are not without electoral or political power": Samuel Alito's words come back to haunt Trump

Tomorrow is Election Day, the last day of voting in this tumultuous 2024 campaign. What a long, strange trip it's been. Just a year ago, Florida...

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Donald Trump's troubling outreach efforts: Post-election staffing plans signal a dark takeover

In front of an enormous crowd of 75,000 people last night, Kamala Harris gave what was billed as her "closing argument" on the Ellipse, the site of...

30.10.2024 2

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Targeting the "enemies within": Trump's retribution plan begins with MAGA

Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, sent out a statement this week drawing attention to the fact that...

25.10.2024 4

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Learning to trust Trump's generals: There's a reason why his military men now call him fascist

Before Donald Trump was considered nothing more than a circus sideshow, some of us noted during the 2015 GOP presidential primaries that his...

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Donald Trump's counterproductive final campaign push: Now is not the time to get cocky

The 2024 election is just a little over two weeks away now and most Democrats are down to their last nerve with worry. This is nothing new, of...

21.10.2024 3

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Donald Trump's town hall with Latino voters shows his campaign is clueless

We have officially entered the manic stage of the presidential election in which the candidates are suddenly everywhere. At least Kamala Harris is...

18.10.2024 20

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The MAGA "weave": Donald Trump picks up steam as he dissembles on stage

Is Donald Trump losing it for real this time? That's a question being asked and answered all over social media and cable news this week in the wake...

16.10.2024 30

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Donald Trump's campaign stops give away the game

In every losing campaign's postmortem, the analysts insist that the candidate should have gone where he or she did not. There were many complaints ...

11.10.2024 10

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Palling around with Putin: Trump's mind-boggling outreach to the Russian dictator under scrutiny

Exactly eight years ago this week, the Obama administration formally accused the Russian government of hacking the Democratic National...

09.10.2024 6

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Republicans are drowning in Donald Trump's lies

I happened to spend some time with a highly intelligent 17-year-old over the weekend who's taking AP Government and is keenly interested in the...

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Liz Cheney and Democrats' big tent strategy: Why courting Republicans works for Kamala Harris

I once wrote that Liz Cheney was the most dangerous woman in America. I thought she could easily be the nominee in 2024 and believed that she'd be...

04.10.2024 70

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Tim Walz wins the nice guy debate

Writing about a debate on the morning after always feels more like theater criticism than political analysis. How did they look, how did they...

02.10.2024 4

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Tim Walz can call out JD Vance's true game plan

I don't normally pay too much attention to the vice presidential debate during a presidential election campaign because they tend not to matter all...

30.09.2024 6

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Republicans are following JD Vance off the gender gap cliff

As a politician, Donald Trump has always exhibited a very creepy form of paternalism. He often says things like "No one has done as much for the...

25.09.2024 6

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Republicans may need to ditch Donald Trump to save MAGA

Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans got a little bit of good news over the weekend with some highly respected polls coming in showing that Kamala...

23.09.2024 30

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Republicans are using the ruse of "election integrity" to pull of another round of Big Lie chicanery

All of the American media was atwitter on Thursday afternoon from rumors that CNN was going to release a bombshell report about North Carolina Lt....

20.09.2024 1

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Trump's campaign can't get in the way of his new grift

There's been a lot going on this week so you may have missed Donald Trump introducing his latest business venture on Monday. You read that right....

18.09.2024 5

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Donald Trump's dead cat strategy puts the pressure on JD Vance

If you feel as if American politics have taken yet another deep dive into the Trump show maelstrom, you aren't alone. This past week has been a...

16.09.2024 4

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Kamala Harris' big tent strategy — and its success — has thrown Trump for a loop

Despite the ongoing excessive whining in the press about Kamala Harris not doing interviews and MAGA's laughable insistence that Trump won the...

13.09.2024 7

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The debate was a total debacle for Donald Trump

According to the New York Times/Siena poll released over the weekend, about 28% of people said they needed to learn more about Vice President...

11.09.2024 5

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Vengeance is Trump's only true campaign proposal

After Donald Trump once again demonstrated his monumental ignorance with his answer to a question about child care at the New York Economic Club...

09.09.2024 20

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