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Scott Bessent Is Not Our Economic Savior

Scott Bessent Is Not Our Economic Savior
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The Sick Psychology Behind Trump’s Tariff Chaos

The Sick Psychology Behind Trump’s Tariff Chaos
10.04.2025 4

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Everybody Hates Howard Lutnick

Everybody Hates Howard Lutnick
08.04.2025 40

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Trump’s Tariffs Have Already Ripped a Gaping Hole in the Economy

Trump’s Tariffs Have Already Ripped a Gaping Hole in the Economy
03.04.2025 5

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Only One Thing Explains Trump’s Tariff Madness

Only One Thing Explains Trump’s Tariff Madness
02.04.2025 60

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The Gaping Hole in the Center of the Abundance Agenda

The Gaping Hole in the Center of the Abundance Agenda
31.03.2025 8

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The Inadequacy of the Abundance Agenda

The Inadequacy of the Abundance Agenda
27.03.2025 2

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Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance

Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance
27.03.2025 100

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Political Courage Is Rare. But That’s What Makes It So Important.

Political Courage Is Rare. But That’s What Makes It So Important.
25.03.2025 20

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Trump’s Latest Tariff Stunt May Be His Most Deranged Yet

20.03.2025 50

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How the Trump Team Justifies Wrecking the Economy

18.03.2025 3

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Trump’s Plutocratic Pals Are the Nation’s Biggest Cowards

14.03.2025 50

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The 199 Things You Can’t Say in the Trump Administration

12.03.2025 10

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Why Don’t Plutocrats Care That Trump Is Tanking the Economy?

11.03.2025 2

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Why I’m Not Joining the Economic Blackout Day

28.02.2025 2

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Trump’s New Economic Plan: Blame Biden

27.02.2025 20

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What I Did Last Week: An Email to Elon Musk

26.02.2025 3

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Trump’s Incompetence Is Botching His Own Deregulation Spree

19.02.2025 3

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Donald Trump Has Found a New Way to Threaten the Economy

11.02.2025 10

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Trump’s Big Firing Spree Is Screwing the Working Class

07.02.2025 10

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How Child Psychology Explains Trump’s Wild Tariff Feints

04.02.2025 40

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The Real Secret Behind Trump’s Insane Tariff Obsession

03.02.2025 30

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The Democrats’ Mission to Win Back the Working Class Starts Now

30.01.2025 9

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The Reason Why Donald Trump Shut Down His Government

29.01.2025 30

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Even the Respectable Argument for Trump’s Tariffs Is Dead Wrong

24.01.2025 3

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Meet the January 6 Cop Assaulters Our President Calls “Hostages”

22.01.2025 20

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Donald Trump’s “Golden Age” of Corruption and Cronyism

21.01.2025 10

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Inaugural Committees Are An Extortion Racket

15.01.2025 4

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The Labor Movement Just Notched Two Big Wins

10.01.2025 9

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A Better Plan Than Trump’s: Let’s Surrender to Canada!

09.01.2025 90

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Trump Is Already Caving on Tariffs

Trump is caving on tariffs, and he isn’t even president yet. I’ve argued previously that the interests of the business lobby and the rich would...

07.01.2025 10

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Medicare Advantage Is Scamming You

Donald Trump promises he will “ not cut one penny ” of Medicare, but like most elected Republicans he’s a strong proponent of Medicare...

03.01.2025 70

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2024 Is Finally Over. Now Let’s Forget That It Ever Happened.

Is it my imagination, or are there fewer “year in review” photo essays this year? In years past, newspaper editors loved these features because you...

31.12.2024 10

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The Plutocracy Wins Another Round Against MAGA Nation

Is the Trump coalition coming apart before the Trump administration even begins? That seemed possible amid last week’s cage match between Elon Musk...

30.12.2024 2

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Democracy Is No Bulwark Against Oligarchy

The hard lesson of 2024 is that liberals spent too much time fretting that Donald Trump would subvert democracy if he lost and not enough that...

25.12.2024 4

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Trump Wants to Bring Back the American Imperium

Something about the holiday season seems to inspire nostalgia for the American imperium—that epoch from 1898 through the first decade or so of the...

24.12.2024 10

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We’re Already Seeing Signs That Trump Is Tanking the Economy

Donald Trump’s election provides a useful occasion to examine the difference between what rich people want and what constitutes a thriving economy....

23.12.2024 40

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Elon Musk Is Already Scamming Washington

The highest-paying part-time job in human history is the position of chief executive at Tesla—or rather, it would be the highest if the legal...

20.12.2024 2

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Trump’s Plan to Turn the IRS Into a Grifter’s Paradise

Donald Trump is flooding the zone with so many terrible nominations that you may have missed that the president-elect recently picked former Rep....

06.12.2024 4

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Somehow It’s Still Legal to Pay Disabled People Less Than Minimum Wage

Joe Biden reminded us he was still president on Sunday by pardoning his son, Hunter. This was, as TNR’s Matt Ford rightly pointed out , “a...

04.12.2024 20

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The Who’s Who on Kash Patel’s Crazy Enemies List

As someday it may happen that a victim must be found I’ve got a little list—I’ve got a little list Of society’s offenders who might well be...

03.12.2024 40

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Donald Trump Is a Weakling. That’s the Problem.

The pithiest summary of Donald Trump’s last presidency was by the comedian John Mulaney. He compared it to a horse being set loose in a hospital....

26.11.2024 10

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In Defense of Morning Joe

The popular MSNBC chat show Morning Joe is the subject of a ridiculous new uproar. Last week the show’s co-hosts, Joe Scarborough and Mika...

22.11.2024 10

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Trump Is Struggling With His Treasury Pick for the Dumbest Reason

Donald Trump doesn’t seem to give his Cabinet appointments much thought , often skipping the drudgery of FBI background checks and more informal...

20.11.2024 30

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The Media’s Favorite Euphemism for Trump’s Acolytes

The mainstream press has been criticized for normalizing, or “sanewashing,” Donald Trump and his political allies. Having spent my career migrating...

18.11.2024 9

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Jail Trump for One Week

The people have spoken; Donald Trump will be our next president. But the people also spoke last May when Trump was  convicted on 34 felony counts...

14.11.2024 6

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How Trump Will Profit From the Presidency (Again)

I know what you’re thinking. How can I, a 98-pound weakling, DEREGULATE my industry or win fat GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS? But after last week’s...

12.11.2024 10

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Dump Twitter

The oligarchs won. When the markets closed November 6—the day Donald Trump was declared winner of the presidential election—the combined wealth of...

08.11.2024 30

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Harris Lost the Very Voters She Needed the Most

We live in a working-class country. More people graduate college than ever before, but, among Americans aged 25 and over, the great majority (62...

07.11.2024 5

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Trump Serves Up One Last Insult to Working-Class Voters

The working class may love Donald Trump, but Trump doesn’t love it back. This is a point I’ve tried to emphasize throughout the campaign season....

06.11.2024 30

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