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Michelle Goldberg

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Trump Has No Idea How to Clean Up His Own Mess

Trump Has No Idea How to Clean Up His Own Mess

His speech told us very little, at least explicitly, but revealed quite a lot.

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She Was a Famous Millennial Feminist. Her Polyamory Memoir Is Heartbreaking.

Almost every ideology can be wielded to make women feel that they’re failing.

30.03.2026 40

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Republicans Know This War Is Going Badly

Republicans Know This War Is Going Badly

Never before has America arrived at the threshold of a quagmire so quickly.

27.03.2026 30

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Joe Kent’s Resignation Letter Is Dangerous Because It’s Half True

Kent’s resignation letter is partly rooted in truth, even if it taps into old antisemitic tropes about occult Jewish control.

18.03.2026 20

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Trump Is Trying to Bully America Into Supporting His War. It Won’t Work.

Even as he’s wrecking American institutions, he is revealing the limits of his cultural influence.

16.03.2026 10

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I Went to Florida to See the 31-Year-Old Candidate Thrilling Gen Z. We’re in Trouble.

James Fishback has managed to bring the paranoid, transgressive, meme-drunk spirit of the right-wing internet into the real world.

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The Idea That Trump Was Antiwar Was Always Delusional

Trump’s foreign policy has often been less a repudiation of neoconservatism than a mutation of it.

03.03.2026 20

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How Israel Lost Americans

Netanyahu and his government deserve the growing bipartisan opprobrium they’re receiving.

28.02.2026 10

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A Congressional Candidate Feared by the Tech Oligarchs

There’s a huge political opportunity for the party that can stand up for human beings in the face of A.I.

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This Is How an Autocrat Goes to War

All that matters to Trump is whether he thinks attacking Iran is in his interests.

20.02.2026 2000

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He Studied Cognitive Science at Stanford. Then He Wrote a Startling Play About A.I. Authoritarianism.

A brisk theatrical thriller, “Data” perfectly captures the slick, grandiose language with which tech titans justify their potentially totalitarian...

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A New Jersey Primary Shows the Depth of Democratic Fury

Trump has thrust us into a new political world, and Democratic voters want leaders who can adapt.

10.02.2026 10

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In Ohio, I Caught a Glimpse of the New Resistance

It’s not just blue America where people are readying themselves for disaster.

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The Fathomless Resentment of Tucker Carlson

To triumph in the modern Republican Party, you need to be able to wrench your soul into alignment with your ambition.

30.01.2026 20

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‘We Are Creating the Conditions for a Catastrophe.’ Three Columnists on Minneapolis.

On immigration raids, the shooting death of Alex Pretti and where we go from here.

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Two Comedians Told the Truth About Jasmine Crockett’s Campaign

Progressives shouldn’t let a retrograde style of internet discourse inhibit them from pointing out the obvious.

23.01.2026 20

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The Right Is Furious With Liberal White Women

In the MAGA imagination, white women are supposed to be helpmeets, not harpies.

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The Resistance Libs Were Right

Trump’s message, the emotional core of his movement, has always been textbook fascism.

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By Killing Renee Good, ICE Sent a Message to Us All

Not even citizens are safe in Trump’s America.

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Don’t Call It Regime Change. This Is Something Else Entirely.

To understand what’s unfolding in Venezuela, you have to look to the mob, not traditional foreign policy doctrines.

06.01.2026 150

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An Anti-A.I. Movement Is Coming. Which Party Will Lead It?

The technology Is ruining much of what makes life worth living.

30.12.2025 100

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Trump Is Getting Weaker, and the Resistance Is Getting Stronger

It’s become easier to imagine the moment when Trump’s mystique finally evaporates.

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Candace Owens Is the Conservative Movement’s Frankenstein Monster

The right mastered influencer politics. Now they’re tearing the movement apart.

21.12.2025 100

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Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists

There’s a big difference between being useful and being respected.

09.12.2025 150

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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.

02.12.2025 40

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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.

28.11.2025 10

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The Incomprehensible March Toward Regime Change in Venezuela

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

25.11.2025 20

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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.

18.11.2025 60

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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.

14.11.2025 10

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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.

11.11.2025 30

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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.

07.11.2025 10

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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.

04.11.2025 30

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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.

31.10.2025 50

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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.

21.10.2025 10

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The New Julia Roberts Movie Seethes With Anti-Woke Resentment

The reactionary centrism of the new Julia Roberts film.

13.10.2025 30

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Megyn Kelly Knows Which Way the Winds Are Blowing

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

07.10.2025 80

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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.

01.10.2025 20

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An Antifascist Movie at a Fascist Moment

“One Battle After Another” defies Trumpian taboos.

30.09.2025 20

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A New Kind of Copycat Killer

The alienated loners behind left-coded violence.

26.09.2025 10

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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.

09.09.2025 10

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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.

05.09.2025 10

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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.

15.08.2025 10

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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.

12.08.2025 20

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The MAGA Congressman Accused of Threatening His Ex With Revenge Porn

When you’re MAGA, they let you do it.

08.08.2025 20

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So Long, ‘South Park’ Conservatives

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

01.08.2025 20

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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.

18.07.2025 10

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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.

15.07.2025 30

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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.

08.07.2025 20

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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.

01.07.2025 20

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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.

27.06.2025 30

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