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Stephen Miller Wins This Week’s Stalin Prize for Totalitarian Flattery

Stephen Miller Wins This Week’s Stalin Prize for Totalitarian Flattery
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Michael Tomasky

The Right-Wing Media Machine Is What’s Saving Donald Trump—for Now.

The Right-Wing Media Machine Is What’s Saving Donald Trump—for Now.
07.04.2025 80

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Of Course Trump Will Tank the Economy. It’s What Republicans Do.

Of Course Trump Will Tank the Economy. It’s What Republicans Do.
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Donald Trump Has Invented Something New and Chilling

Donald Trump Has Invented Something New and Chilling
28.03.2025 4

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Congressional Democrats Want to Show Some Fight? Start Here.

Congressional Democrats Want to Show Some Fight? Start Here.
24.03.2025 8

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Trump v. Boasberg: If This Isn’t a Constitutional Crisis, What Is?

21.03.2025 9

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Democrats, This Is the Worst Possible Time for a Civil War

17.03.2025 10

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Trump and Musk Are Getting Their Butts Royally Spanked in the Courts

14.03.2025 30

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Humor Is Vital to Effective Protest, and the Democrats Suck at It

10.03.2025 40

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Donald Trump Just Proved He’s an Economic Idiot. Again.

07.03.2025 8

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Would President Trump Have Stopped Hitler? The Answer Is Alarming.

03.03.2025 30

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Trump Brings a Day of Historic Shame for the United States

01.03.2025 100

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“Rule of Law Shock and Awe”: Norm Eisen’s Legal War on Trump and Musk

27.02.2025 4

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Trump Wants to Be President for Life—and He’s Already Preparing for It

24.02.2025 4

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Trump-Musk’s Chainsaw Promotes the Same Old Cruel Right-Wing Ignorance

At the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, Elon Musk appeared on stage in oversized sunglasses, a black gothic MAGA hat, a thick...

21.02.2025 4

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JD Vance’s Debacle in Germany Exposes MAGA’s Sinister Global Endgame

18.02.2025 70

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Trump’s A.G. Just Did Something So Corrupt She Should Be Fired Already

14.02.2025 10

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Three Big Lessons for the Democrats in 2025

13.02.2025 10

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Democrats: This Is War. Isn’t It Time You Acted Like It?

10.02.2025 60

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Trump’s Gaza Plan Is Not a Distraction. It’s a Potential War Crime.

07.02.2025 4

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Will Elon Musk Do to the Federal Government What He Did to Twitter?

03.02.2025 10

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We’ve Now Learned the Three Principles of Trumpism, and They’re Ugly

31.01.2025 30

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“A Mortal, Existential Threat”: Harry Litman on the DOJ Crisis

31.01.2025 30

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Trump Just Broke the Law. Blatantly. And He Might Get Away With It.

27.01.2025 6

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At the End of Week One, Every Dark Prediction Is Already Coming True

24.01.2025 10

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Trump the Redemptionist: The Coming American Armageddon

21.01.2025 30

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It’s Time to Check Back in, Liberals—Trump 2.0 Will Be Far, Far Worse

17.01.2025 2

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Trump Could Frankly Learn a Lot From Denmark

13.01.2025 4

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We’ve Never Been Here Before: The Zero-Accountability Presidency

10.01.2025 70

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The Trump Era Came Into Sharper View This Week. God Help Us.

Where do I even begin in describing what the events of the week have told us about the coming Trump era? Four developments this week, in entirely...

13.12.2024 10

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The World Is on Fire. And Trump’s About to Be President. Feel Better?

It’s a fortunate thing that Bashar Al Assad’s regime collapsed before Tulsi Gabbard became our country’s director of national intelligence. A well-...

09.12.2024 30

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Trump Has Handed Democrats a Fast Way to Build Some Working-Class Cred

One important point that gets lost in the avalanche of coverage about Donald Trump’s appalling Cabinet nominees is that they’re all (except the...

06.12.2024 5

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We’re Entering a World Where the Rule of Law Is Turned Inside-Out

I was busy ignoring politics and focusing on college football Saturday, so it was only around 3 a.m. Sunday morning, when I was sleeplessly...

02.12.2024 10

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How Did the Law Never Catch America’s Most Lawless President?

If you had told me a year ago that Donald Trump was going to skate away from all the legal trouble he was in, I would have laughed in your face. I...

27.11.2024 50

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The Smarter Anti-Trump Resistance: More Facts, Less Outrage

In yet another “how could this be?” moment for liberals and Never Trumpers of all stripes, we’re now seeing polls on the president-elect’s...

25.11.2024 9

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Does the Gaetz-to-Bondi Transition Count as a Win? Maybe. For Now.

You know the old leftist phrase “the worse, the better”: It’s said to date to the early days of revolutionary Russia, and it means that the worse...

22.11.2024 10

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Trump Is Testing the Senate. And Guess Who’s Going to Win That One?

I’m taking bets that Matt Gaetz will indeed be confirmed as our next attorney. I know all the clever people say otherwise. NBC News, in a story you...

18.11.2024 6

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Why the Democrats Have Been Making the Same Mistake—for 44 Years

Having lived now through four particularly stinging Democratic presidential election defeats as an adult (1980, 2000, 2016, and 2024), I can tell...

11.11.2024 10

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Why Does No One Understand the Real Reason Trump Won?

I’ve had a lot of conversations since Tuesday revolving around the question of why Donald Trump won. The economy and inflation. Kamala Harris...

08.11.2024 100

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Latino Men Were the Big Defectors—but They Weren’t the Only Story

How in God’s name did the Democrats lose yet another election to Donald Trump , after defeating him somewhat comfortably four years ago? If you go...

06.11.2024 40

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Donald Trump Has Lost His Sh*t

I woke up Saturday morning, as you may have, to the sight of Donald Trump performing fellatio on a microphone (no, I’m not linking to it). The clip...

04.11.2024 40

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Men Are Hopeless, but Don’t Worry: Women Will Save America. As Usual.

At closing argument time, it turns out that Donald Trump is making Kamala Harris’s closing argument. What is it? That women should not vote for...

01.11.2024 10

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If You’re Being Fatalistic or Panicking, You Are Helping Donald Trump

The psychological differences between liberals and conservatives are an important and underexamined aspect of politics. Never are they more...

28.10.2024 40

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The Best Reason for Calling Donald Trump a Fascist? Easy: He Is.

What the hell is this “debate” about whether Kamala Harris should call Donald Trump a fascist? It’s too … what? Too aggressive? Too in your...

25.10.2024 4

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Republicans Are Cheating. Again. But Now It’s Worse Than Ever.

How Republicans win presidential elections, according to Republicans: We are the party of middle American morals and values, and the Democrats are...

21.10.2024 20

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Democrats Are Enthusiastic About Harris—but Don’t Tell the Media

18.10.2024 3

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Democrats Are Enthusiastic About Harris—but Don’t Tell the Media

18.10.2024 1

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Immigration? Inflation? Nope—Trump’s Advertising Is Mostly Anti-Trans

15.10.2024 3

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The Media Has Three Weeks to Learn How to Tell the Truth About Trump

14.10.2024 30

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Trump at Madison Square Garden: Is He Kidding? Yes. And No.

11.10.2024 2

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