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We Think We Figured Out What Trump’s D.C. Endgame Is

We Think We Figured Out What Trump’s D.C. Endgame Is
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Trump Promised to Fix Inflation. He’s Doing This Instead.

Trump Promised to Fix Inflation. He’s Doing This Instead.
11.08.2025 2

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One of Trump’s Most Hated First-Term Policies Returns in a New Form

One of Trump’s Most Hated First-Term Policies Returns in a New Form
07.08.2025 3

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He’s Backing Losers and Infuriating the DNC. It Might Be Exactly What Democrats Need.

He’s Backing Losers and Infuriating the DNC. It Might Be Exactly What Democrats Need.
30.07.2025 10

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The Public Is Losing Patience With Trump on Immigration. Your Move, Congress.

24.07.2025 10

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A Former ICE Official Is Worried That the Agency Is About to Go on a Hiring Spree of Proud Boys

17.07.2025 4

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The Supreme Court Limited Lower Courts’ Power to Stop Trump’s Lawlessness. A Judge Is Trying Another Way.

12.07.2025 50

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You Could Not Make Up Trump’s Latest Horrifying Immigration Court Case

04.07.2025 40

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Sonia Sotomayor Puts It Clearly: None of Our Rights Are Safe

28.06.2025 100

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How Much Will the Supreme Court Let Trump Get Away With? We Got an Ominous Sign This Week.

26.06.2025 40

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Trump Is Doubling Down on ICE Raids. It Might Come Back to Haunt Him.

19.06.2025 30

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Even Donald Trump Is Starting to See the Absurdity of Stephen Miller’s Deportation Targets

14.06.2025 30

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Trump Reprises One of the Worst Things He Did in His First Term

07.06.2025 4

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There’s an Alarming Part of Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” You Probably Haven’t Heard Much About

04.06.2025 7

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Let’s Unpack One of the More Disturbing Things Stephen Miller Has Said

02.06.2025 7

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It’s the El Salvador Deportation Flight All Over Again—but This Time to South Sudan

22.05.2025 4

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What It Would Look Like If the Trump Administration Got Its Way in the Birthright Citizenship Case

19.05.2025 20

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The Trump Administration Is Letting In Just One Group of Refugees. The Choice Speaks Volumes.

13.05.2025 2

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Is Trump Carrying Out His Mass Deportation Promises? The Numbers Might Surprise You.

07.05.2025 3

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Voters Are Frustrated. Will Democrats Be Able to Do Something With It?

30.04.2025 3

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The Truly Dystopian Deportation Step Trump Is Eyeing Next

17.04.2025 30

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There’s a Reason the Trump Administration Is Fighting to Keep Detained International Students in Louisiana

16.04.2025 20

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Apparently John Roberts Is Fine With Disappearing People to El Salvador

10.04.2025 3

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Democrats Might Finally Be Learning an Important Lesson. Will They Run With It?

05.04.2025 7

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Who Gets to Be an American This Week? Not Some of the People Who Immigrated Legally.

03.04.2025 6

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Trump Executive Order Says States Must Use Voting Machines That Don’t Actually Exist

29.03.2025 30

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Why It’s So Outrageous That Trump Is Invoking This Obscure 200-Year-Old Wartime Law

20.03.2025 20

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The Trump Admin’s New Birthright Citizenship Strategy Could Lead to a Truly Bonkers Result

19.03.2025 20

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There Are Some Big Problems With This Republican Talking Point. The Constitution, for One.

12.03.2025 30

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AOC’s Letter to Pam Bondi Is a Pretty Satisfying Read

04.03.2025 10

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Why the Legal Theory Behind Trump’s Assault on Government Is So Dangerous

21.02.2025 20

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Looks Like Eric Adams’ Months of Pandering to Trump Have Finally Paid Off

12.02.2025 9

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This Democrat Has a Plan for Fighting Musk. Here’s What He Wants You to Know.

05.02.2025 10

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Lots of Trump’s Executive Orders Won’t Do Very Much. Then There Are These.

23.01.2025 8

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Will RedNote Get Banned Like TikTok Did?

18.01.2025 3

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The Trump Criminal Cases Are Reaching Their Anticlimax

16.01.2025 5

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Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 Trump Report Illuminates One Final Thing

14.01.2025 3

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Trump Says That Jack Smith’s “Fake Report” Is Dead. Don’t Be So Sure.

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08.01.2025 8

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Jimmy Carter Put an End to the Presidential Yacht

Tweet Share Share Comment Former President Jimmy Carter touted his populist image as a peanut farmer from small-town Georgia. And, true to that...

30.12.2024 10

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What’s Aileen Cannon Been Up to Lately? It Involves Taylor Swift.

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21.12.2024 7

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Have We Ever Seen Shitposting Take Down a Bill Before?

Tweet Share Share Comment This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day , a feature highlighting a statement from the news that exemplifies just how...

21.12.2024 40

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Just How Badly Are Billionaire Owners of Newspapers Bowing to Trump? Very Badly, Says a Longtime Columnist.

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11.12.2024 6

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Amy Klobuchar Is Really Reaching for a Silver Lining

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07.12.2024 10

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Here’s What’s Been Going On at the Supreme Court While We’ve All Been Distracted

Tweet Share Share Comment With its six-justice conservative supermajority, the Supreme Court has made a sharp right pivot in recent years,...

06.12.2024 9

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Looks Like Trump Got Away With It

Tweet Share Share Comment This will be Slate’s final edition of Keeping Up With the Trump Trials . You can read our old coverage of Trump’s legal...

08.11.2024 2

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The Dark Reason More Young People Aren’t Running for Office

Tweet Share Share Comment It was not so long ago that millennials were the youngest generation getting elected to public office and infiltrating...

05.11.2024 20

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900,000 Puerto Ricans Live in Swing States. Here’s How One Is Responding to That Racist Joke.

Tweet Share Share Comment When Camille Rivera saw the clip of Tony Hinchcliffe calling Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage” at Donald Trump’s...

31.10.2024 40

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Trump’s Comments About Jack Smith Are Getting Increasingly Unhinged

Tweet Share Share Comment Donald Trump has been convicted of 34 felony counts in the New York hush money case—but there’s a lengthy appeals process...

29.10.2024 10

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Trump’s Team Didn’t Want This Evidence Made Public. Here’s What’s in It.

Tweet Share Share Comment Donald Trump has been convicted of 34 felony counts in the New York hush money case—but there’s a lengthy appeals process...

23.10.2024 100

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He Almost Got Deported Over a Pro-Palestine Protest. Here’s What He Wants You to Know.

Tweet Share Share Comment Fall marks the start of a new beginning for thousands of college students across the country embarking on a new academic...

18.10.2024 10

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