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What this disastrous week taught us about the Trump presidency

Donald Trump’s tariffs were at once predictable and shocking. Predictable, in the sense that Trump had been crystal-clear about wanting...

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The real reason Trump is destroying the economy

The Trump administration’s tariffs are, by every reasonable account, an economic catastrophe in the making. So why are they happening? One...

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Where the right’s defense of free speech ends

In God and Man at Yale, the 1951 book that made William F. Buckley famous, American conservatism’s founding father argues that academic freedom is...

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A clarifying moment for democracy

At around 5:15 pm on Tuesday, a man in a black hoodie stopped Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk on the street in Somerville,...

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The deep divide lurking in Trump officials’ leaked group chat

The biggest story in America is, and should remain, the Trump administration’s accidental inclusion of Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg on...

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There’s a pattern in Trump’s power grabs

You’ve surely heard “First They Came,” German pastor Martin Niemöller’s famous poem about the road to Nazi Germany. It’s one of those texts...

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The Trump right’s pro-Israel antisemitism

Over and over again, the Trump administration has claimed to be fighting antisemitism while wielding power against its domestic enemies. Yet, at the...

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Canada is so furious at the US right now

The US and Canada are meant to be the best of friends, but they’re in the midst of a pretty ugly fight.  It began with President Donald Trump’s...

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The right’s new embrace of an old idea about race

Earlier this week, we learned that a senior State Department official called Secretary of State Marco Rubio stupid. The insult was delivered using...

12.03.2025 8

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The obscure manifesto that explains the Trump-Musk power grab

Russell Vought is the brain behind Donald Trump’s executive order blitz. The now-director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) spent months...

19.02.2025 30

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How to stop Trump’s power grab

At this point, there is little doubt that President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are engaged in a fundamentally unlawful effort to rewrite the American...

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An eerie prophecy of Trump’s second term — from 1998

Marko Elez, a staffer at Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Oversight, operated an anonymous X account that spewed out-and-out race...

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Why do US politics affect the rest of the world?

Vox reader Jo Ní Coinnigh asks: Why do American politics (especially the presidential election) affect not just the US, but the entire world? On one...

07.02.2025 6

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Their democracy died. They have lessons for America about Trump’s power grab.

A leader who voters rejected several years ago returns to power, largely thanks to discontent with the incumbent party’s economic performance....

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Trump is already acting like a king

Late on Monday night, the Trump administration sent out a stunning memo suspending all federal grants. Chaos followed, with everything from...

29.01.2025 6

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Elon Musk doesn’t deserve the benefit of the doubt

Since Donald Trump’s rise to power, some liberals have developed a bad habit of seeing secret Nazi imagery everywhere on the right. Be it Laura...

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How Trump will hide his anti-democratic politics in plain sight

When I was researching my book on anti-democratic politics, I found a striking pattern in modern incarnations of it — that these movements, almost...

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The Trump executive orders that threaten democracy

Ever since Donald Trump declared he’d act like a dictator on Day 1 during his presidential campaign, there have been real concerns that he’d be...

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Trump’s real inaugural address started when the teleprompter stopped

When it comes to speeches, there are two Donald Trumps. The first is Teleprompter Trump, who reads a prepared speech and tends to be staid, sleepy,...

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What’s in the Gaza ceasefire deal? And can it last?

A ceasefire deal has been reached in Gaza. Long-running negotiations among Israelis, Palestinians, Americans, Qataris, and Egyptians yielded an...

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The deeply American roots of Trump’s imperial ambitions

Back in 2016, when much of the political press was casting Donald Trump as a dovish counterpart to Hillary Clinton, I wrote a story arguing that...

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9 predictions for Trump’s second term

The biggest question in politics right now is what the second Trump administration will actually look like. The most honest answer is that nobody...

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Why conservatives condemn Luigi Mangione and celebrate Daniel Penny

The American right has spent the past week performing an interesting tap dance: condemning the left for cheering on one alleged killer while...

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A far-right publication just got tricked into publishing Communist Manifesto excerpts

In an extremely normal turn of events, a far-right magazine recently published an essay consisting entirely of edited passages from The Communist...

11.12.2024 4

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I listened to hours of Trump’s FBI pick on Steve Bannon’s podcast. Oh boy.

04.12.2024 5

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Trump’s win is part of a mysterious — and ominous — worldwide trend

27.11.2024 5

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Trump’s coalition is a mess of contradictions — and they’re about to be exposed

20.11.2024 5

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The Trump Cabinet picks who seriously threaten democracy — and the ones who don’t

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Did Trump win in 2024 because of racism? It’s complicated.

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Why the attempt to deplatform Trump failed so utterly

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The global trend that pushed Donald Trump to victory

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Donald Trump has won — and American democracy is now in grave danger

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It’s not alarmist: A second Trump term really is an extinction-level threat to democracy

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Inside Trump’s ominous plan to turn civil rights law against vulnerable Americans

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The ugly truth behind the Trump rally’s Puerto Rico “joke”

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The banality of Elon

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The increasingly bizarre — and ominous — home stretch of Trump’s 2024 campaign

18.10.2024 4

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Critiquing Trump’s economics — from the right

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What Trump really means when he says immigrants have “bad genes”

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A year after October 7: How Hamas’s attack and Israel’s response broke the world

04.10.2024 4

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The only moment from the VP debate that mattered

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Mark Robinson and the confusing rise of the nonwhite reactionary

25.09.2024 3

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The 6 thinkers who would define a second Trump term

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Why Trump’s lies about Haitians are different

18.09.2024 5

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Laura Loomer, Trump’s new favorite conspiracy theorist, explained

13.09.2024 2

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How the GOP became the party of racist memes against Haitian immigrants

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How a 2006 book by a Harvard professor explains the Trumpist right’s gender politics

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How Kamala Harris goaded (and goaded and goaded) Trump into a debate trainwreck

11.09.2024 2

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Conservatives are shocked — shocked! — that Tucker Carlson is soft on Nazis

06.09.2024 2

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The real reason Netanyahu won’t end the Gaza war

04.09.2024 3

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