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Matt Robison

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Removing Trump Via the 25th Amendment Is Virtually Impossible. Should Dems Push for It Anyway? | Opinion

22.01.2026 5

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What Did Trump Actually Accomplish This Year? | Opinion

24.12.2025 9

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Trump Built His Own Trap—Now He’s Caught in It | Opinion

05.12.2025 90

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All the President’s Radical Men | Opinion

05.11.2025 9

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The Shutdown Is Going Better Than Democrats Expected. Will It Last? | Opinion

16.10.2025 6

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With Kimmel Firing, Trump Administration Just Crossed a Red Line | Opinion

20.09.2025 10

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The Right Keeps Getting Social Security Disastrously Wrong | Opinion

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was filmed saying the new "Trump Accounts" would be a "backdoor for privatizing Social Security."

11.08.2025 8

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What if the Parties Struck a Truce on Gerrymandering? | Opinion

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is under severe pressure from President Donald Trump to restart a self-destructive practice: predatory gerrymandering.

22.07.2025 7

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RFK's Anti-Vax Coup Means Your Kids' Vaccines May Be Out of Reach | Opinion

If RFK has his way, even if you still have coverage, you may not be able to afford the shots that your doctor wants to give.

08.07.2025 7

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The U.S. Has Never Been a Bigger Target for Terrorism | Opinion

Abraham Lincoln once warned that a house divided against itself cannot stand. President Donald Trump is daily ripping out the beams.

19.06.2025 6

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Xi Jinping Could Save America With One Simple Announcement | Opinion

What if the U.S. and China could get into another space race?

02.06.2025 10

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Donald Trump Is Making America Dumber—On Purpose | Opinion

President Donald Trump is directly and intentionally attacking the functioning of our collective brain in order to achieve his own quixotic ends.

30.04.2025 10

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Trump and Musk's Brittle, Shared Secret Gets Exposed | Opinion

What President Donald Trump and Elon Musk share more than anything else—and have built their lives on—is one keen insight into American psychology.

14.04.2025 20

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Is There a MAGA Endgame? Actually, There Are Three | Opinion

The Trump administration's seemingly bottomless appetite for disrupting, contorting, or outright demolishing everything in sight begs a question: what...

31.03.2025 10

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The Dealmaker-in-Chief Just Sold Off America's National Security | Opinion

This may be a week historians take note of: the moment when a U.S. president officially surrendered to our nation's enemies with nary a shot fired.

21.02.2025 30

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Will Trump 'Fix the Glitch' to Win His War on the Government? | Opinion

For the past three weeks, representatives of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency have been playing the role of the consultants in the...

14.02.2025 10

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MAGA Speared Its White Whale, Leaving the World's Poor to Drown | Opinion

For the past two decades, you longed to cut off the hand that America extends to the most impoverished, oppressed, desperate, and ill of the world....

07.02.2025 8

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There's a Huge, Sneaky, Bipartisan Win Hiding in Plain Sight | Opinion

In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump suggested something much bigger, bolder, and better than he probably realized.

28.01.2025 10

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One Hard Truth Democrats Must Face to Navigate Trump 2.0 | Opinion

By the 1980s there was a lot more global competition for U.S.-made goods, which began to depress U.S. wages

23.01.2025 20

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It's Time for Congress to Ban Fraternities—Sororities, Too | Opinion

If gangs were visiting this kind of damage upon our kids, we would call in the National Guard. When frats do it, we go to the movies.

10.01.2025 10

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American Jews: We Messed Up Hanukkah. Let's Fix It | Opinion

Next week, we'll get a rare cultural confluence: the first night of Hanukkah and Christmas Day coincide for only the fifth time in a century. The...

20.12.2024 10

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