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Worse than Orbán: Trump is trying to bring his opposition to heel

Worse than Orbán: Trump is trying to bring his opposition to heel

In Orbán's Hungary, it's "respectable fascism." Here in the U.S., it's something else

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Now Donald Trump is corrupting the military — and perverting its loyalty

Now Donald Trump is corrupting the military — and perverting its loyalty

Troops in LA are just the starting point. How much further will he go?

11.06.2025 8

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Trump's war with California will test MAGA's limits

Trump's war with California will test MAGA's limits

This is just the beginning. Anyone who lives in a blue American city should get ready

09.06.2025 20

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Musk turns the GOP's devotion to billionaire tax cuts into a trap

Musk turns the GOP's devotion to billionaire tax cuts into a trap

Under mounting pressure from Elon Musk, Republicans are now considering cuts to Medicare

06.06.2025 40

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Elon Musk versus MAGA: Republicans have reached a tipping point

Elon Musk versus MAGA: Republicans have reached a tipping point

Can the Musk myth hold up against the Trump cult?

04.06.2025 30

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The ugly truth of Trump's America first agenda

The ugly truth of Trump's America first agenda

The president stops the investments that made America wealthy in recent years

02.06.2025 9

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Donald Trump is becoming disillusioned

Why Trump is suddenly trying to shake off his Putin stupor

30.05.2025 4

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Trump diverts military valor to himself

The celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Army happens to fall on Trump's 79th birthday

28.05.2025 4

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Republicans are forcing Trump to touch the third rail

Republicans are raising the deficit so high that it may trigger sequestration and mandatory cuts to Medicare

23.05.2025 10

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DOGE deflated: Elon Musk has lost his political power

He's still sickeningly rich — but the Musk bubble has floated down to Earth

21.05.2025 3

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Trump is trying to COVID hack the economy

The White House prepares to falsify data and cook the books in order to sell their schemes to the American people

19.05.2025 8

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MAGA gets the Middle East treatment — and exposes why Republicans love Trump's lavish lifestyle

Republican voters yearn to be subjects. Donald Trump understood that instinctively

16.05.2025 3

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One major part of Project 2025 is falling apart

The conservative legal community appears to be rejecting the Trump team's vision of "radical constitutionalism"

14.05.2025 3

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Stephen Miller came prepared for war — and he won’t back down

Donald Trump's most trusted adviser still wants to deport millions — and doesn't intend to let courts stop him

13.05.2025 7

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Stephen Miller came prepared for war — and he won't back down

Donald Trump's most trusted adviser still wants to deport millions — and doesn't intend to let courts stop him

12.05.2025 5

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Trump's massive corruption, Part Deux: So much more bigly this time!

What's the difference between the Trump family and the US government? No one knows — you have to pay to find out

09.05.2025 8

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Trump's DC prosecutor now seems doomed — and it couldn't happen to a nicer fellow

Ed Martin came out of old-school conservatism — and might be the very worst Trump appointee of 2025. So long!

07.05.2025 10

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The world is now reversing course to reject Trumpism

The West was moving to the right — and then Donald Trump got elected again

05.05.2025 7

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Trump-appointed judge foils Stephen Miller's grand plan

The Trump administration's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act is finally falling apart

02.05.2025 40

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Trump's revenge machine is his only accomplishment — and MAGA is left out of it

100 days in, MAGA is reduced to making only one man's dreams come true

30.04.2025 4

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Trump's poll numbers are so abysmal he's crying "fraud"

Most people don't yet know the scope of what's going on — and the Democrats should tell them

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Trump plays spoiler for his own MAGA Congress

Trump sinks to bottom of the polls in 100 days, spoiling congressional Republicans' only political capital

25.04.2025 6

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Rubio makes Republicans' biggest dream come true — but kills America's soft power in the process

The GOP has tried to take down the State Department for decades

23.04.2025 10

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Signals of distress: Pete Hegseth's Pentagon is a mess of his own making

Trump's secretary of defense shows the recklessness, lack of judgment his former Fox News co-hosts warned against

21.04.2025 6

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Musk's DOGE mission goes off target with Republicans

Donald Trump's golden boy looks to have lost his touch

14.04.2025 20

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Trump unleashes his harshest retribution on "disloyal" Republicans

Two new Justice Department investigations are meant as a shot across the bow

11.04.2025 5

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MAGA's mixed messages on tariffs share one disturbing theme

While the billionaires in Trump's orbit may have different visions, they all want the same thing

09.04.2025 10

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Trump's tariffs are the ultimate MAGA loyalty test

Self-preservation may start to look a little different to Republicans if the country is mired in a recession

07.04.2025 30

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Trump's tariffs regime aims for much worse than a global trade war

Everyone knew that President Trump was going to pull the trigger on his big tariff policy on Wednesday, but he actually dropped a nuclear bomb. He put...

05.04.2025 20

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Elon Musk delivers hope and change for Democrats

A victory in a tight Wisconsin race boosts Democrats in their quest to defeat the billionaire's DOGE plans

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Bracing for "Liberation Day"

Trump's plans for the future grow more fantastical

31.03.2025 8

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America has hit the MAGA tipping point

We won't be able to ignore what Trump and his accomplices are doing once it starts to impact us personally

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The most chilling lesson of Signalgate

From what we can see on newly released text messages, Trump's people don't know what he's talking about

26.03.2025 5

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Trump resurrects George W. Bush's rendition regime

Trump's rationale for dredging up wartime powers to render foreigners to a foreign prison is rather familiar

24.03.2025 9

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Taking down Jackie Robinson reveals what the fight against DEI is all about

The Trump administration wants to pretend that the world is a meritocracy where white men happen to be the best

21.03.2025 7

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Trump is becoming a bigger problem for the Supreme Court — and John Roberts can't control it

After extending presidential immunity in Trump's Jan. 6 case, the court has no room to stop his judicial attack

19.03.2025 10

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Trump's push for deportations without due process is meant to cause a constitutional crisis

Trump's invocation of the 1798 Aliens Enemies Act, explained

17.03.2025 20

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How much corruption can MAGA stomach? Trump and Musk test the limit

Autocracy? Oligarchy? Kakistocracy? No, Trump's Mad King behavior is a hallmark of patrimonialism

14.03.2025 40

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Trump takes advantage of our collective COVID amnesia

The pandemic has gone so far down the memory hole that it's like it never happened

12.03.2025 30

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"Canada will never ever be part of America": Trudeau's replacement immediately takes it to Trump

"We can give ourselves far far more than Donald Trump can ever take away"

10.03.2025 20

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Trump's attempt to clean up after Elon Musk backfires

One question remains: What is the true motivation behind Musk's DOGE project?

07.03.2025 6

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Trump's speech to Congress makes it clear: They're coming for Social Security

The address was an interminable litany of lies that featured a dull recitation of alleged fraud in Social Security

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Who benefits from Donald Trump's revenge diplomacy? Putin

Trump believes Putin is entitled to take what he wants

03.03.2025 3

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Elon Musk is Trump's method of punishment

Trump's global revenge crusade is in full swing

28.02.2025 3

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America's allies adjust to Trump's abandonment

A mournful requiem for the great post-war alliance

26.02.2025 10

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Too unpopular to help: Democrats hang Republicans out to dry

Democrats have their first real chance to resist the Trump-Musk takeover. They just have to say "no"

24.02.2025 8

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"Never meant to be ruled by a dictator or a king": The DOGE backlash hits Trump districts

The resistance is wide awake — and includes Republican voters this time

21.02.2025 20

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Trump's delusional path to peace: Handing over Ukraine to Russia

Flattering Vladimir Putin will not win the Nobel Peace Prize

19.02.2025 6

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MAGA's push for a constitutional showdown sparks unexpected resistance

A Republican rift is forming over the issue of judicial review — but don't expect Congress to defy Donald Trump

12.02.2025 20

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"To the victor belongs the spoils": Trump's imperial ambition is fueled by the myth of his mandate

After winning by a bigger margin than in 2016, Donald Trump now sees himself as omnipotent and invincible

11.02.2025 30

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