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Thomas B. Edsall

Thomas B. Edsall

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Trump’s Smash-and-Grab Presidency Reaches New Heights

Trump’s Smash-and-Grab Presidency Reaches New Heights

When disruption becomes destruction.

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JD Vance Has His Reasons

JD Vance Has His Reasons

The vice president’s political transformation from Trump skeptic to MAGA superstar has many roots.

03.03.2026 20

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The Donald Trump 1 Percent Fan Club

There are some elites the president likes.

24.02.2026 7

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Trump Is His Own Worst Enemy

The president appears determined to prevent his party from achieving a durable majority coalition.

17.02.2026 4

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Project 2028, the Aftermath

We got hundreds of suggestions.

10.02.2026 4

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Let’s Start Project 2028

An outline of items in a hypothetical Democratic Party platform.

03.02.2026 4

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‘This Is Trump’s Goon Squad, for Christ’s Sake’

Who will watch the watchmen?

20.01.2026 7

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Trump Unmasked

If power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, what do we have here?

14.01.2026 300

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The Trump Revolution Is Going Much Further Than We Realize

The president is deploying his domineering tactics in unexpected places.

06.01.2026 20

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Why Does Trump Get Away With It?

How, and why, does the president get away with it?

30.12.2025 5

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Trump’s War on Public Health Is a Battle to the Death

The MAHA pipe dream is going to hurt MAGA the most.

23.12.2025 90

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The Trump Mind-Set Is Not Complex

Gimme, gimme, gimme. Gimme some more.

16.12.2025 10

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Why the ‘Affordability Hoax’ Is a Trap for Trump

I doubt this was what Trump meant when he called himself “Mr. Brexit.”

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Is There Life for MAGA After Trump?

A field guide to the movement and its future.

02.12.2025 8

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Why Trump Won’t Face Prosecution When He Leaves Office in 2029

The president has a very big immunity umbrella.

26.11.2025 8

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Who’s Afraid of Tucker Carlson? I Can Think of Two People.

The price of “no enemies on the right” is going up.

19.11.2025 20

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Steve Bannon Thinks Zohran Mamdani Is a Genius. It’s Not a Feint.

Key elements of the mayor-elect’s campaign have enormous potential for a party that was badly beaten in 2024.

12.11.2025 9

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It Would Be Trump’s Honor to Pay for Food Stamps

When Republicans sing Kumbaya.

04.11.2025 8

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James Comey Said Trump Brought Sammy the Bull to Mind. Let’s Think About That.

Why do people keep comparing the President to a Mafia don?

28.10.2025 6

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Can These Two Women Turn It Around for Democrats?

Races in New Jersey and Virginia are testing the power of the moderate lane.

21.10.2025 6

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The Rise of the Smartphone and the Fall of Western Democracy

We are paying a tremendous political and psychological cost for access to social media.

15.10.2025 50

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Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.

After all, there is “an enemy within.”

08.10.2025 10

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The Trump Vengeance Tour Is Coming to a Stadium Near You

The MAGA movement’s encirclement maneuver is gaining ground.

23.09.2025 10

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The Kirk Crackdown Is Underway

The idea that there is more left-wing extremist violence than right-wing extremist violence is a dangerous myth.

16.09.2025 7

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What Can’t Trump Wreck?

The president is the “political-societal equivalent of a neutron bomb.”

09.09.2025 10

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Trump Wants to Drown Us in a Sea of Chaos

How should his opponents respond?

02.09.2025 6

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The Mind-Boggling Intrusiveness of Donald J. Trump

The president is driving the tentacles of the federal government deep into the nation’s economy, culture and legal system.

19.08.2025 20

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How Liberalism Went to Die on the Texas-Arkansas Border

Democrats delivered millions to the Texarkana region. It didn’t matter a dime.

12.08.2025 10

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The Supreme Court Has Finally Found a President It Likes

Its six-member conservative majority has become a key enabler of Trump’s agenda.

05.08.2025 10

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One Place Where Trump Is Definitely Winning

The president’s family stands to make hundreds of millions of dollars from its cryptocurrency ventures.

29.07.2025 4

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Are the Democrats Dead or Alive?

Trump’s approval rating is falling. It’s not helping his opponents.

22.07.2025 5

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When It Comes to Undermining America, We Have a Winner

Trump may be winning the battle to weaken our democracy, but he has not won the war.

15.07.2025 10

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The Gender Gap That Ate the Democrats

If men had supported Kamala Harris at the same level as women, Harris would have won the popular vote, and possibly the Electoral College.

08.07.2025 10

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Taking From the Poor and Giving to the Rich Is Not Populism

Trump is operating like a reverse Robin Hood.

01.07.2025 10

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Democrats Are Getting Richer. It’s Not Helping.

Nearly half of white Kamala Harris voters earned more than $80,000 a year.

24.06.2025 10

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Could the Third Time Be the Charm on Impeachment?

There are many legitimate reasons to try Trump a third time. Don’t hold your breath.

17.06.2025 10

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The President Will Destroy You Now

Trump’s wanton attacks on institutions and individuals have a specific purpose.

21.05.2025 7

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This Is Why Trump Is Always Talking About Corruption

Shamelessness is Trump’s superpower.

14.05.2025 10

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Another Group the Democrats Should Stop Taking for Granted

Trump didn’t just defy the assumption that his demonization of immigrants would cost him Hispanic voters; he turned those expectations upside down.

08.04.2025 10

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‘Bottom Line Is That We Have Lost Control of Our Destiny’

What Democrats need to do now will not be very easily done.

01.04.2025 10

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‘It Is Hard to Imagine a More Sweeping Agenda to Make Americans Less Healthy’

Trump says one thing about toxins and does another.

25.03.2025 6

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It May Not Be Brainwashing, but It’s Not Democracy, Either

How the federal government became “an outdated software system that must be replaced.”

19.03.2025 10

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The Problem for Democratic Optimists

Even if the party can move toward the center, it may not help.

12.03.2025 6

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‘Trump Is the Real Thing’

Vengeance is his.

04.03.2025 10

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The Chaos Agenda Is Going Full Speed Ahead

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25.02.2025 9

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Elon Musk Is Leading a ‘Hostile Takeover of the Federal Government’

His mandate under Trump “truly is unprecedented in U.S. history.”

18.02.2025 10

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Their Target Is ‘the Very Core of Modern American Liberalism’

It has proved to be the key mobilizing concept underpinning the MAGA movement.

11.02.2025 10

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‘Trump’s Thomas Cromwell’ Is Waiting in the Wings

Russell Vought views American politics as a life-or-death struggle between the God-fearing right and a malevolent, secular left.

04.02.2025 20

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Revenge Is a Dish Best Served From the White House

What does it mean when Trump says, “I am your retribution”?

15.01.2025 9

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If Men Are in Trouble, What Is the Cause?

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18.12.2024 8

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