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Trump Looks to Libya in His Latest Deportation Scheme

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Is California’s Plan to Trump-Proof the State Enough?

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NIOSH Upheld Workplace Safety for Millions in the US. Trump Is Dismembering It.

NIOSH Upheld Workplace Safety for Millions in the US. Trump Is Dismembering It.

Trump is destroying the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, sacrificing workers on industry’s altar.

04.05.2025 20

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The First 100 Days of Self-Dealing Trump's Thugocracy

29.04.2025 3

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Tariffs on Pharmaceuticals May Be the Next Front in Trump’s War on Public Health

Tariffs on Pharmaceuticals May Be the Next Front in Trump’s War on Public Health

Trump and his commerce secretary are threatening to make medications more expensive by slapping tariffs on them.

26.04.2025 2

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Trump Shreds the Constitution to Better Hound Immigrants and Eviscerate Universities

25.04.2025 10

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Trump, Bukele, and the Growing Assault on the Rule of Law

18.04.2025 4

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America Is Now One Giant Milgram Experiment

11.04.2025 3

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America Is Now One Giant Milgram Experiment

11.04.2025 20

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Were They “Getting Yippy” or Was Trump Manipulating the Market?

10.04.2025 2

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Trump Is Trying to Axe Collective Bargaining for 1 Million Federal Employees

If Trump’s order withstands the legal challenges against it, two-thirds of the federal workforce will lose union rights.

08.04.2025 2

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Governor Newsom, It’s Time to Get Off the Sidelines

04.04.2025 10

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Trump Dumping Musk Is Not Enough to Stop the Wreckage of the Federal Government

Even if Trump splits with Musk, the tech bro’s strategy of wrecking institutions and pushing legal limits will live on.

03.04.2025 2

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Attention Must Be Paid to the Migrants Disappearing Under Trump

28.03.2025 30

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Trump Ramps Up Effort to Intimidate Judges Amid Their Growing Pushback

A constitutional crisis is occurring as Trump ignores judicial orders and bullies legal advocacy organizations.

25.03.2025 50

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Trump's Lawless Deportation Machine Should Concern Every American

21.03.2025 3

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Trump and DOGE’s Attacks on CFPB Will Help Financial Industry Prey on Consumers

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is meant to protect us from predatory finance. That’s why Trump wants it gone.

20.03.2025 40

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The Corruption Being Obscured by Trump’s Tesla Spectacle

14.03.2025 10

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Five Years After COVID’s Onset, the Republican Party Wages War Against Vaccines

Despite the ongoing spread of COVID, measles and bird flu, Trump has handed power to anti-vaxxers and vaccine skeptics.

11.03.2025 5

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Independent Agencies Oversee Elections and Media. Trump’s Seizing Their Reins.

A little-noticed executive order may in the long run have the largest impact on US democracy.

08.03.2025 9

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Trump Abandons Ukraine, and Wages a War Against the Free Press

07.03.2025 30

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Trump’s Speech Vowed a New “Golden Age,” But His Policies Drive Us Into the Dust

In his speech to Congress, Trump doubled down on the tariffs that economists say may trigger another Great Depression.

05.03.2025 6

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The Most Disgraceful Foreign Policy Spectacle in US History

01.03.2025 100

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DOGE Takes a Chain Saw to Federally Funded Scientific Research

28.02.2025 10

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Trump Team’s Plan to “Make America Great Again” Is to Eviscerate Public Safety

DOGE has put at risk basic government function, dramatically increasing the riskiness of daily life for all Americans.

27.02.2025 70

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Trump’s Aggression Against Canada Is Boosting Liberal Party’s Election Chances

Annexation is implausible because Canadians know just how much the US has shredded its own social safety net.

22.02.2025 20

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The Endless Conflicts of Interest in the Trump Administration

21.02.2025 8

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A Profoundly Un-American Moment

14.02.2025 4

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The Dehumanization Is the Point

07.02.2025 7

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Trump’s January 6 Pardons Were a Green Light to Far Right Paramilitaries

The GOP’s silence after the pardons made it complicit in Trump’s decision to normalize paramilitary violence in the US.

03.02.2025 2

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The Trump Administration Has Gone AWOL From the Union

31.01.2025 20

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The Mountain West’s Mega-McMansion Problem

28.01.2025 4

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Trump’s All-Out Assault on American Democracy Has Begun

24.01.2025 20

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Why I Won’t Be Watching the Clown Show That Will Be Trump’s Inauguration

17.01.2025 6

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The Insurance Crisis Looming in California as the Wildfires Burn

17.01.2025 10

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What the Fire Left Behind: Scenes From Los Angeles

13.01.2025 4

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A Trump L’Oeil and More Signs of What’s to Come

10.01.2025 4

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As Worst Fire in LA History Raged, Trump Saw Tragedy as a Political Opportunity

Trump has treated the crisis like a political football. Will he also use FEMA funds as leverage over the blue state?

09.01.2025 10

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Trump’s 2025 Foreign Policy Plan: Make Colonialism Great Again

03.01.2025 10

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Trump’s Debt Ceiling Power Play Is a Prelude to the Congressional Chaos to Come

With hours left before the U.S. government was slated to run out of money last week, Elon Musk and Donald Trump took to social media to strong-arm...

23.12.2024 4

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My 2025 Project: Starting a New Column, “Hiding in Plain Sight”

20.12.2024 6

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Musk Slammed Trump’s Treasury Pick. But Is Scott Bessent Really That Moderate?

Donald Trump is a master of populist demagoguery. He knows exactly when to turn up the volume on his most controversial ideas, and he knows when to...

19.12.2024 7

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Trump’s Budget Director Could Usher In an Age of Unfettered Presidential Power

As Donald Trump’s cabinet takes shape, one name ought to stand out: Russell Vought, slated to head the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)....

09.12.2024 40

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Trump’s Pick for Labor Secretary Won’t Neutralize the Damage His Administration Will Inflict on Workers

06.12.2024 6

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Will Trump Weaponize the FCC to Crack Down on Media Outlets He Doesn’t Like?

Donald Trump has spent years delegitimizing much of the media in the eyes of his followers. Now, he is moving beyond his rhetoric about “enemies of...

05.12.2024 7

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Blue States Will Not Be Safe in Our Corrupt, Clownish, Authoritarian Future

03.12.2024 7

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Trump’s Win Is a Boon to the Far Right in Europe and Beyond

Partway through Donald Trump’s first presidency, Richard Grenell, the newly minted U.S. ambassador to Germany, made the extraordinary announcement...

27.11.2024 40

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California Is Ready to Go Toe to Toe With Trump 2.0

22.11.2024 6

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Democratic Governors Join Forces to Resist Trump's Extreme Policies

15.11.2024 3

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Western States Are Still Counting Ballots. Here's Why That Matters.

08.11.2024 3

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