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A Serious Journalism Scandal Hiding Inside a Frivolous Sexual One

Olivia Nuzzi doesn’t seem to recognize that her collaboration with Robert Kennedy was a grave professional betrayal.

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Give to Groups Defending Immigrants From ICE

Give to Groups Defending Immigrants From ICE

These organizations are squeezed between an expanding need for their services and an administration trying to starve them of resources.

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The Incomprehensible March Toward Regime Change in Venezuela

The Incomprehensible March Toward Regime Change in Venezuela

The administration’s drug war rhetoric seems like a pretext. But a pretext for what?

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The MAGA Crackup Might Finally Be Here

Even if the Epstein files never come out, it’s increasingly clear that a Trump coalition is fragmenting.

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Why Is Ghislaine Maxwell Being Pampered in Prison?

Maybe there’s an innocent explanation for all the privileges she’s being accorded, but I can’t think of one.

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Alex Karp Went From Biden Donor to Trump Enabler. Why?

A tech billionaire professes to hate identity politics, but they seem in some ways to consume him.

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More Democrats Need to Follow Pelosi’s Example and Retire

She has shown herself more willing than most to put aside her own ego for the greater good.

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Nick Fuentes Was Charlie Kirk’s Bitter Enemy. Now He’s Becoming His Successor.

A white nationalist’s rise reveals a seemingly unstoppable ratchet of radicalization on the right.

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I Thought Graham Platner Was Finished. What I Saw in Maine Changed My Mind.

A Senate candidate’s popularity reveals the depth of Democratic disaffection.

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Trump Posted a Video of Himself Dumping Excrement on Our Cities. It’s a Glimpse of His Deepest Drives.

A perverse delight in degradation has always coursed through MAGA circles.

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The New Julia Roberts Movie Seethes With Anti-Woke Resentment

The reactionary centrism of the new Julia Roberts film.

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Megyn Kelly Knows Which Way the Winds Are Blowing

MAGA is tearing itself apart over who really killed Charlie Kirk.

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Is This Bible-Quoting Texan the Answer to Democratic Prayers?

James Talarico sees a spiritual void at the center of our society.

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An Antifascist Movie at a Fascist Moment

“One Battle After Another” defies Trumpian taboos.

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A New Kind of Copycat Killer

The alienated loners behind left-coded violence.

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These Peace Negotiators Say It’s Time to Give Up on the Two-State Solution

The talk of two states may be an alibi, not an aspiration.

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Epstein Won’t Break Trump’s Coalition, but the Fissures Are Starting to Show

Epstein’s victims won’t let Trump push their story aside.

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Trump’s Attempt to Make Museums Submit Feels Familiar

MAGA would fill museums with self-glorifying kitsch, the aesthetic lingua franca of all authoritarians.

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A Right-Wing Influencer Tried to Be a Tradwife. It Almost Broke Her.

Being an anti-feminist, it turns out, is no shield against abusive male power.

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The MAGA Congressman Accused of Threatening His Ex With Revenge Porn

When you’re MAGA, they let you do it.

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So Long, ‘South Park’ Conservatives

There’s no more pretending that it’s rebellious to be reactionary.

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A Movie About the Year America Went Fully Berserk

From the director of “Midsommar,” a nightmare vision of our national descent.

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Trump’s Fans Forgive Him Everything. Why Not Epstein?

Having nurtured conspiracy theories for his entire political career, he suddenly seems in danger of being consumed by one.

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Everyone Hates This Bill. Dan Osborn Could Make Republicans Pay for It.

As Dan Osborn launches a new Senate campaign, he thinks some Republicans have buyer’s remorse.

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At Glastonbury, Left-Wing Politics Are Shocking Again

Trying to stamp out anti-Israel rhetoric only lends it the frisson of forbidden truth.

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Plenty of Jews Love Zohran Mamdani

It’s been maddening to see outsiders claim that his win in the mayoral primary was a victory for antisemitism.

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Trump Has Reawakened the Resistance

Huge protests dwarfed the administration’s sad military parade.

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Progressives Need a Global Movement

To counter the authoritarian threat, the left must develop a clear picture of the world it wants to create.

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This Is What Autocracy Looks Like

The president didn’t bother to wait for a crisis to launch an authoritarian crackdown.

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Why Women Are Leaving This Broadway Show in Tears

“John Proctor is the Villain” turns the idea that MeToo was a witch hunt inside out.

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From the Creator of ‘Succession,’ a Delicious Satire of the Tech Right

Much of the pleasure of “Mountainhead” is the way it reflects our preposterous nightmare world.

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How Did So Many Elected Democrats Miss Biden’s Infirmity?

More than lying to the public, too many Democrats were lying to themselves.

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Karma Comes for Kennedy

Casey Means’s nomination to be surgeon general has led to a rift in MAHA.

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Can Hakeem Jeffries Break Through?

The House minority leader would much rather talk about Medicaid and taxes than looming autocracy.

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I Can’t Believe Anyone Thinks Trump Actually Cares About Antisemitism

Jews should remember how Trump promised to “protect” L.G.B.T. citizens.

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MAGA Pronatalism Is Doomed to Fail

Trump will never be the ‘fertilization president.’

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The Vibe Shifts Against the Right

People who once found right-wing ideas scintillating are having second thoughts as they watch Trump put those ideas into practice.

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Why Did So Many People Delude Themselves About Trump?

Wall Street mistook demagogy for wisdom.

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Is Claudia Sheinbaum the Anti-Trump?

In a world lurching rightward, Mexico’s president offers progressives hope.

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She Blew the Whistle on Meta’s ‘Lethal Carelessness.’ Now She’s Being Silenced.

The “free speech” champion Mark Zuckerberg tries to shut up a critic.

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Why Is Gavin Newsom Seeking Common Ground With the Right?

Democrats are desperate for leaders who will fight on their behalf, not flatter their enemies.

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This Is the Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since the Red Scare

Mahmoud Khalil’s detention is a frightening sign of an authoritarian slide.

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The Right’s Trump Derangement Syndrome

They keep pretending the president is someone he’s not.

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Andrew Tate, Accused Sex Trafficker, Is Trump’s Kind of Guy

The president ushers in a new age of aggressive male impunity.

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Trump’s New Deputy F.B.I. Director Has It Out for the ‘Scumbag Commie Libs’

Dan Bongino is in a place to turn wild notions from the right-wing internet into pretexts for federal investigations.

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Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the Woke Parts

The administration’s war on universities defies rational self-interest.

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Why Musk and Vance Went to Bat for a Self-Described Racist

Trump’s acolytes place qualified civil servants on leave and reinstate a far-right troll.

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Trump’s Gaza Deal: War Crimes in Exchange for Beachfront Property

The president’s proposal wasn’t serious, but it was dangerous.

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Trump Is Running America the Way America Ran Iraq

He and his team are treating the government like hostile territory to be conquered.

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Under Trump, a Wink and a Nod at Anti-Abortion Violence

By undermining the FACE Act, Trump gives anti-abortion activists tacit permission to break laws.

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