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Philip Bump

Chicago Tribune

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When institutions crumble, strongmen step in

18.07.2025 80

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Ten years in, how big is the MAGA universe?

16.07.2025 5

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Trump finds himself on the wrong side of a conspiracy theory

15.07.2025 40

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The Epstein files: What’s Trump’s best move?

15.07.2025 10

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Want Medicaid coverage? Go pick some vegetables.

11.07.2025 50

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These maps show America’s ‘third’ parties. Who is Musk’s for?

09.07.2025 7

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The useful political lesson from Zohran Mamdani’s college application

08.07.2025 70

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The Republican shift against American pluralism

03.07.2025 50

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Thank you for your attention to this column!

03.07.2025 10

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This is what ICE is doing with the tax dollars you already provide it

30.06.2025 10

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The Democrats’ generational rift just got harder to ignore

26.06.2025 10

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‘Criminal immigrant’ means whatever the administration says it means

26.06.2025 90

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How Zohran Mamdani beat the Democratic machine

26.06.2025 20

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Parsing ICE’s mixed-up, hard-to-believe assault claims

20.06.2025 200

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The GOP budget bill is most popular with this group

19.06.2025 60

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Stating the obvious: Mass protests are not going to help Trump

16.06.2025 70

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People in other countries see what America is becoming

14.06.2025 100

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Trump unloads his 2020 demons onto the rest of America

13.06.2025 60

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Despite administration rhetoric, ICE heavily targets non-criminals

11.06.2025 7

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Donald Trump vs. California (and everywhere else)

10.06.2025 100

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Musk already lost his war against Trump

07.06.2025 20

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The GOP doesn’t really care how the pardons were signed

05.06.2025 9

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The unaccountable fist of an unaccountable president

04.06.2025 6

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Parents invest so much in youth sports. Then came Trump.

04.06.2025 10

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The war on terror comes for Trump’s political and cultural enemies

27.05.2025 60

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When it comes to budget math, ‘D.C.-style’ actually means ‘honest’

24.05.2025 20

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The conspiracy theory that broke Dan Bongino

22.05.2025 50

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What you — yes, you — should know about interacting with ICE

21.05.2025 100

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Is that guy with a gun an ICE officer — or just a guy with a gun?

13.05.2025 100

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Hey, Oklahoma students. Here’s your real ‘election fraud’ primer.

03.05.2025 100

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Let’s have more babies — and less of this

26.04.2025 60

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Republicans don’t think Trump can ignore the Supreme Court — for now

26.04.2025 40

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Trump wants 1 million deportations. One man is tripping him up.

17.04.2025 80

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The historically bad timing of Trump’s war on immigrants

08.04.2025 20

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Democracy — and Democrats — aren’t dead yet

02.04.2025 9

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What America could look like a decade from now

31.03.2025 7

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What the lack of consequences for the Signal scandal means

28.03.2025 60

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Voters love a fighter. So why won’t the Democratic Party fight?

27.03.2025 30

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The final nail in the ‘but her emails’ coffin

26.03.2025 200

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Donald Trump’s insecurity state

24.03.2025 7

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The new boundary of dangerous DEI in the military: Jackie Robinson

21.03.2025 60

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They’re coming for immigrants first 

20.03.2025 100

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Young Americans are angry at Trump — and the Democratic Party

18.03.2025 4

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Partisans see opposing presidents as historically toxic figures

18.03.2025 10

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A quarter-century ago, we were idealists. What are we now?

14.03.2025 30

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The Mahmoud Khalil arrest is also what cronyism looks like

12.03.2025 8

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Is there a floor to Donald Trump’s support?

11.03.2025 50

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Can Elon Musk find any fraud before Trump’s base notices the con?

04.03.2025 200

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The story behind the rightward shift of young men

02.03.2025 60

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There’s a reason the United States hasn’t had an official language

02.03.2025 100

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