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Michael Tomasky

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War and Football? What Kind of Sick Mind Thinks That Video Is Cool?

You’ve surely seen or read about the video the White House put out last week that interspersed bombing footage from Iran with punishing hits from...

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Michael Tomasky

How We’re All Now Paying the Price for the Myth of Trump’s Competence

At some point, early Wednesday morning, the cost of the Iran War will top $10 billion. The Center for Strategic and International Studies released a...

09.03.2026 10

New Republic

Michael Tomasky

Noem No More: Democracy Still Works, Even in Donald Trump’s America

We could all breathe a sigh of relief if Donald Trump had fired Kristi Noem for the right reasons. If, for example, Trump had determined that a...

06.03.2026 3

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What About Those Celebrating Iranians? We’ve Seen This Movie Before.

The MAGA faithful, well-schooled over the years in spotting what they believe to be instances of liberal “hypocrisy,” have taken to the interwebs...

02.03.2026 10

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Donald Trump’s Lawless Regime-Change War in Iran: No. Not in Our Name.

My cell phone rang at 3 a.m. I looked down to see that it was my wife’s Aunt Jan calling. She lives on the West Coast and is a bit of a night owl. I...

28.02.2026 10

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It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État

Back in 2024, Kamala Harris and the Democrats struggled to convince voters that a second Donald Trump term would constitute a serious threat to...

27.02.2026 20

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The Real State of the Union: Millions of Americans Are Just Disgusted

This Tuesday night, America will bear witness to Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address of his second term. I know—the mere thought of it...

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“We” Haven’t Lost Our Sense of Shame. Only Republicans Have.

At moments of massive social breakdown, when we are in the process of discovering to our horror that something evil has been going on in our society...

20.02.2026 100

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30 Years Later, It Looks Like Jesse Jackson Won the Economic Argument

It seems genteel and quaint today, compared to what we’re living through now, but at the time, to a lot of people, the Reagan revolution was...

17.02.2026 10

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Michael Tomasky

Trump’s New Voter I.D. Threat Is His Gravest Attack on Democracy Yet

What did Donald Trump mean last Friday when he wrote on Truth Social that “There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by...

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The Sickening Image That Will Haunt Pam Bondi the Rest of Her Life

During and right after Pam Bondi’s House testimony Wednesday, I flipped on Fox News and Newsmax to see how they were covering it. I was expecting to...

13.02.2026 200

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The Trump Bubble Is Impregnable for Now—but Boy, Is It Going to Burst

09.02.2026 10

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Rich Liberals: Please, Please Step Up and Save The Washington Post

07.02.2026 20

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Why This Might Be a Grim Week for the Haitians of Springfield, Ohio

02.02.2026 6

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Why We Already Know Year Two of Trump 2.0 Will Be Worse Than the First

30.01.2026 4

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Donald Trump Wants This Chaos. It Means More Power in His Hands.

26.01.2026 50

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Jack Smith Reminds Us: Aileen Cannon Is Still Destroying America

23.01.2026 10

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Trump Is About to Find Out What Every Bully in History Has Found Out

20.01.2026 40

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We’re Nearing the Day When ICE Thugs Just Open Fire on Crowds

16.01.2026 10

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Which City Will Donald Trump Bomb First: Tehran—or Minneapolis?

12.01.2026 20

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In ICE’s Own Words, It’s “Wartime” in America

09.01.2026 7

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Donald Trump Isn’t Antiwar. He’s Anti-West. Learn the Difference.

05.01.2026 50

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Bari Weiss—a Poetic Inspiration

24.12.2025 10

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Sorry, but You Had to Be an Idiot to Believe Trump Could Lower Prices

12.12.2025 5

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Kristi Noem: A Case Study in the GOP Tilt Toward Ostentatious Fascism

08.12.2025 10

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Cowardly Pete Hegseth Is This Week’s Proof of the GOP’s Moral Rot

06.12.2025 50

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Immigration Crackdown, Looming War: Desperate Acts of a Desperate Man

01.12.2025 10

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There’s No Doubt About It: The Great MAGA Crack-Up Has Begun

28.11.2025 20

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America Is Finally Starting to See Trump for the Bullsh*t Artist He Is

24.11.2025 8

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Get to Know the Name Jay Clayton—Our Fate May Depend on His Honesty

17.11.2025 6

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The One Move That Tells Us How Crazy-Panicked Trump Is About Epstein

14.11.2025 7

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“A Story We Think We Know”: Ken Burns on The American Revolution

11.11.2025 20

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Once Again, Senate Democrats Show They Don’t Get Who They Represent

10.11.2025 8

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It’s Hard to Know Whether Trump’s Cruelty or Stupidity Is Worse

10.11.2025 9

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The Quicksand Pits That Await Zohran Mamdani—and How He Can Avoid Them

07.11.2025 10

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Verdict Number One: America Has Big-Time Buyer’s Remorse About Trump

05.11.2025 60

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The Washington Post Has Become Right Wing Even Faster Than I Thought

03.11.2025 30

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Mike Johnson’s Christian Values: Children Starve, Pedophiles Skate

31.10.2025 7

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If Mamdani, Spanberger, and Sherrill Win, What Will It Mean? Not Much.

27.10.2025 10

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Trump Wrecks America. His “Patriotic” Fans Cheer. Is There Any Bottom?

24.10.2025 8

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The Real Patriots Will Be Marching Saturday—Against the un-Americans

17.10.2025 7

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Be Glad the Hostages Are Home. Be Worried About the Rest.

13.10.2025 8

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Trump’s Lies About Portland: An Excuse to Create a Police State

13.10.2025 10

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Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

10.10.2025 50

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For God’s Sake, Democrats: Don’t Cave

06.10.2025 9

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Trump Just Gave Democrats the Ideal Albatross to Hang Around His Neck

03.10.2025 9

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What’s Really Behind the Shutdown: the GOP’s Immoral Priorities

29.09.2025 30

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Comey Shows That Donald Trump’s Contempt for America Knows No Bounds

26.09.2025 6

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It’s Happened: The United States of America Is No Longer a Democracy

22.09.2025 9

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Remember This Week—It’s the Week America Became a Different Place

19.09.2025 6

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