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“Little Marco” goes big MAGA — with his eyes on the White House

Once a Trump tormentor, Marco Rubio is now a MAGA powerhouse — and driving the illegal war on Venezuela

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History shows that Trump’s Venezuela campaign will be disastrous

Trump is just the latest president to meddle in Latin America — and the outcome will be no different

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Democrats are finally exposing Donald Trump’s weakness

By holding firm in shutdown fight, Dems are revealing Trump's strongman limitations

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How Kristi Noem became the face of Donald Trump’s police state

Kristi Noem's DHS propaganda campaign depends on costumes, ICE raids — and Corey Lewandowski

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Thanks to Trump and the Supreme Court, we’re facing a legal emergency

Thanks to SCOTUS, Trump is now a president with few legal — or constitutional — constraints

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Mike Johnson’s support may be slipping

Can Johnson hold his caucus together on health care and Epstein?

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Democrats are winning the health care shutdown war

Allowing Obamacare premiums to soar appears to be one step too far

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The dangerous symbolism of the Trump coins

Trump wants to be on our money — and there's a reason why

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Donald Trump believes he has a license to kill

After saying the U.S. is at war, POTUS takes out another Venezuelan boat

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House GOP seeks to rewrite Jan. 6 — and absolve Donald Trump

We all know what happened, but a new committee hopes to muddy the waters

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World of wonders: Congressional Democrats seem to have grown a spine

Party unity has broken out in the face of shutdown threats

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SCOTUS just signaled how its next term will go — and Trump is “ecstatic”

The conservative majority once again uses the shadow docket to side with POTUS

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Always obvious, the Trump-Nixon parallels are now downright uncanny

Trump's corruption in plain sight is making Nixon look like an amateur

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How Viktor Orbán inspired Donald Trump’s assault on the media

POTUS is moving us closer to "soft autocracy" with each passing day

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Jimmy Kimmel is the latest casualty in Trump’s war on media

POTUS and his henchmen are intent on bringing the left to heel

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Texas needs what James Talarico is selling — and so does America

He speaks movingly about hope and love — and taking on our broken economy and politics

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America is in danger of becoming numb to violence

Donald Trump is incapable of showing us our better angels

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MAGA’s plan for a white Christian America is unfolding before our eyes

Their ambitions were on full display at the National Conservatism Conference

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MAGA’s plan for a white Christian America is unfolding before our eyes

Their ambitions were on full display at the National Conservatism Conference

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Trump gets hit with a birthday card boomerang

He's the POTUS who called "hoax." How can anyone still believe him?

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Trump’s deadly Venezuela boat attack takes us into dangerous waters

POTUS believes he has unlimited power — all over the world

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Will Democrats blink once again in the looming shutdown standoff?

It's time for them to grow a spine — and make some "good trouble"

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RFK Jr. tightens his chokehold on the nation’s public health

But the demise of American leadership in science didn't begin with him

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Don’t be fooled by Trump’s dictatorship jokes

Will the president who believes he has unlimited power seize the moment?

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Fed governor’s firing shows that Trump is beyond all restraint

As the retaliations mount, the president increasingly sees himself as omnipotent

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James Dobson ignited the culture wars — and changed US politics

Long before Rush Limbaugh, Dobson took to the airwaves with his hardcore message

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Paging FDR: Democrats need to embrace New Deal-style politics

FDR fought for the underdog — and he was brazenly ruthless. Dems should follow his lead

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Guess what’s back? Privatizing Social Security

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent spills the beans: Trump was lying all along

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Desperate Democrats consider using a new — and old — weapon

Gerrymandering in blue states would fight fire with fire

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Trump’s mass deportations are hurting local economies

From rotting crops to shuttered assembly lines, we will all soon feel the effects of Trump's cruel policies

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Will Ghislaine Maxwell come through for Trump in the Epstein scandal?

Suspicions are raised after Justice Department's six-hour meeting with the convicted sex trafficker

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Stephen Colbert’s firing is a test of free expression

If a comedian can't make jokes about the president and corporations, who can?

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GOP’s foreign aid vote will cost lives — and they don’t care

Their decision to claw back $9 billion in funding will be catastrophic

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Donald Trump goes nuclear in the GOP’s war on science

Billions of dollars in cuts to research are leaving lives at stake

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MAGA continues to reel from Trump’s Epstein betrayal

A movement founded on conspiracy theories wonders if the president is leading one of his own

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Don and Vlad’s love story could be on the rocks

After a decade of flattering and submitting to Putin, has Trump finally seen the light?

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How $178 billion is creating a police state

A massive funding increase for ICE means more detention camps and more masked agents in the streets

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Not Trump’s baby: The “big, beautiful” bill’s father is really Grover Norquist

Republicans are close to seeing their long-held fantasies realized

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Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” runs into a Senate sausage grinder — and it’s messy

Senate parliamentarian rules against the GOP on key provisions, and Republicans are furious

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War with Iran could activate Trump's darkest impulses

If Trump sent troops to Los Angeles, what might he do as a wartime president to quell opposition?

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Facing a decision on Iran, Trump is as befuddled as ever

America's alleged strongman can't seem to make a decision

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Trump has become an easy mark — and so has America

The president's erratic behavior has left him — and us — open to manipulation from allies and enemies alike

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Trump takes aim at states' rights, and the Constitution

The once hallowed GOP concept is under threat by a would-be king

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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

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

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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

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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

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Elon Musk versus MAGA: Republicans have reached a tipping point

Can the Musk myth hold up against the Trump cult?

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The ugly truth of Trump's America first agenda

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

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Donald Trump is becoming disillusioned

Why Trump is suddenly trying to shake off his Putin stupor

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