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Donald Trump, Accidental Environmentalist

Donald Trump calls climate change a “hoax,” a “scam,” and a “con job.” He has (twice) withdrawn the United States from the Paris Climate...

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Trump’s IRS Deal Is a Massive Test for Congress and the Courts

Let’s don’t waste any time debating the legality of President Donald Trump’s IRS “settlement” (click here to read part one and here to read...

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Trump’s Plot to Pocket Billions in Taxpayer Dollars Just Might Succeed

Of all President Donald Trump’s kleptocracy schemes, perhaps the most shameless are his financial legal claims against the same executive branch...

14.05.2026 5

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California Shows Why Nonpartisan Primaries Stink

California’s Republican Party is so weak that no Republican has won statewide office there in 20 years. Yet there’s some danger this fall that the...

13.05.2026 4

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It’s No Longer Safe for Civil Servants to Be Good at Their Job

It has come to this. Every year a completely inoffensive nonprofit called the Partnership for Public Service hosts a ceremony to hand out awards to...

08.05.2026 5

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Trump’s Mass Deportation Machine Isn’t Helping Native-Born Workers

Even if you hate President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign—which has placed about 60,000 undocumented immigrants in Immigration and...

07.05.2026 6

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Turn the Met Gala Into a Fundraiser for The Washington Post

Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post and, with his wife, Lauren Sanchez, he’s an honorary co-chair of Monday evening’s Met Gala. The Post cost...

04.05.2026 9

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Good Riddance to OPEC

These are hard times for multinationalism. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization lies in tatters, the World Trade Organization is on life support,...

29.04.2026 4

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How the Tech World Turned Evil

Twenty-second-century historians tracing the ascent of American technocracy from quirky garage tinkerers grooving on the Whole Earth Catalog to...

23.04.2026 9

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Trump’s Labor Secretary’s Impressive Legacy of Sleaze

In September 2024, the Teamsters, whose strutting fool of a president, Sean O’Brien, had been gifted the month before with a prime time slot at the...

21.04.2026 5

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Does the SEC Care Whether Hegseth Is Killing Iranians To Get Rich?

Last month, I considered whether Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used what he knew about the imminence of the Iran war to expand his stock portfolio...

20.04.2026 6

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Let’s Replace All Corporate Chiefs With AI

In March, The Wall Street Journal’s Meghan Bobrowsky broke the news that Mark Zuckerberg was “building a CEO agent to help him do his job.” The...

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Trump Wants You to Cheat on Your Taxes

“There’s seemingly this mentality building,” Carolyn Schenck, a former national fraud counsel for the Internal Revenue Service, tells The Wall...

14.04.2026 7

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Will Trump’s War in Iran Kick Off a High-Seas Toll Binge?

Forty-six years ago I told an editor of The New Republic that I’d like my first article for this publication to be about the United Nations...

10.04.2026 5

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A Ridiculous New Book Says We Don’t Love the Rich Enough

“Ye have the poor always with you,” says Jesus in Matthew 26:11, a statement that’s often said to express fatalism about the problem of poverty....

09.04.2026 7

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Trump Is Silencing Government Warning Signals of an Economic Crash

If the United States economy is headed off a cliff, better that we receive no warning in advance. That may not be the stated goal of the Trump...

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Is Pete Hegseth Killing Iranians to Get Rich?

The Iran war is shaping up to be history’s first global conflict fought inside the stock market.At 7:27 a.m. Monday, before the New York Stock...

31.03.2026 10

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Here Comes the Bear Market

The Dow and Nasdaq indexes both closed Friday in correction territory—a market dip of 10 percent from the last peak—and the S&P 500 wasn’t far...

30.03.2026 9

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The Fight to Save D.C.’s New Deal Sistine Chapel From Trump

The spendthrift ways of President Donald Trump are not confined to asking Congress for more than $200 billion to keep fighting a war in Iran that he...

27.03.2026 10

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The Reason Trump Isn’t as Perturbed by Rising Oil Prices as You Are

Many of us who remember the 1970s energy crisis are experiencing right now a strong sense of déjà vu. I acquired my California driver’s license in...

23.03.2026 10

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The Shame of Cesar Chavez

There are 27 elementary and high schools named after Cesar Chavez in California, nine in Texas, and three each in Arizona and New Mexico. The New York...

19.03.2026 10

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The White Working Class Is Quiet Quitting Trump

Bill Clinton was the last Democratic presidential candidate to win the white working class (conventionally defined as “white non-college voters,”...

18.03.2026 8

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The Latest Economic Numbers Are Brutal for Trump

The likelihood is growing that the economy will be in recession when voters cast their ballots in the midterm elections. Goldman, Sachs on Thursday...

13.03.2026 10

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How Democrats Can Outplay the GOP on Tax Cuts

A popular Washington game is to oversell tax cuts to lower-income people. Republicans have excelled at this for half a century. Now Democrats want to...

12.03.2026 10

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This War With Iran Will Cost More Than We Can Afford

With “affordability” the Democrats’ watchword of the moment, I’m surprised more haven’t pointed out that President Donald Trump’s...

10.03.2026 10

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The Supreme Court Blew Trump’s Budget to Smithereens

The Supreme Court’s tariff decision creates two revenue problems for President Donald Trump. The more obvious one has commanded most of the...

23.02.2026 20

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Trump’s Lawsuit Against the IRS Is Even More Outrageous Than It Seems

02.02.2026 10

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Is Kevin Warsh Really the Fed Chair of Trump’s Dreams?

30.01.2026 10

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Trump’s First National Bank of Scams Is Coming

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For the Sake of Our Money, Scott Bessent Needs to Shut Up

27.01.2026 10

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Those Nine Democrats Were Wrong to Vote the Clintons in Contempt

23.01.2026 10

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Trump Takes His American Decline Tour to Davos

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Elizabeth Warren Is Right About the Democrats’ Big Problem

16.01.2026 20

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The Market Met Jerome Powell’s Warning With Deep Denial

13.01.2026 10

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The Only Time Trump Makes News Is When He Tells the Truth

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Trump Is Making Me Miss the Neocons

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Taking Venezuela’s Oil Won’t Come Cheap

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A Wealth Tax Is Not How You Soak the Rich

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This Is the Real SNAP Fraud

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Why Russell Vought Is Worse Than Watergate

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The Peak of Trump’s Fact-Free Vendetta Against Regulation

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Norman Podhoretz Was the Ultimate Neocon

18.12.2025 20

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How Labor Scored a Surprising Win in the GOP-Controlled House

17.12.2025 10

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Mad King Trump’s Latest Peeve: Sans Serif Fonts

11.12.2025 30

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Can the “Sistine Chapel of the New Deal” Be Saved From Trump?

10.12.2025 10

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How Sovereign Wealth Funds Grease Trump’s Kleptocracy

02.12.2025 20

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The Reality Behind Trump’s Wild Claims About Turkey Prices

27.11.2025 20

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DOGE May Be Dead, But Its Crimes Live On

25.11.2025 10

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Trump’s Polls Are Tumbling. So Is the Stock Market. Coincidence?

21.11.2025 10

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Welcome to the Age of Aristopopulism

19.11.2025 10

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