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June 5, 2025
Paul Waldman
A Trump Tariff Case Study: Can the U.S. Again Be the Power Tool King?
It took a long time for the power tool business to migrate out of America—and it’ll take a long time for it to come back, if it does.
June 5, 2025
Ross Rosenfeld
Trump’s Vision of Government: Members Only
The right is busy creating two Americas: one for MAGA and one for the rest of us. Those of us who aren’t in their big club won’t have the same rights—and will undoubtedly suffer under this regime.
June 5, 2025
Greg Sargent
Stephen Miller Erupts in Fury Over Low Arrests—and Hands Dems a Weapon
Hitting Miller’s new deportation quotas could mean fewer resources to fight child trafficking, terrorism, and other crimes. Do Americans really want that?
June 4, 2025
Timothy Noah
Meet Elon Musk’s Puppet Master: Russell Vought
The person poised to take over DOGE from Trump’s pet billionaire is the guy who’s actually been running it all along.
June 4, 2025
Alex Shephard
Is This the Best the Democrats Can Do?
Recent comments from Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries suggest that the party’s leaders are ill suited for the moment.
June 3, 2025
Matt Ford
Trump’s War With Leonard Leo Could Expose a Conservative Legal Scam
The former Federalist Society power broker used the president to achieve judicial supremacy. Now all that work could get wrecked by the monster he turned loose.
June 3, 2025
Harry Litman
Why Trump Moved Leonard Leo From the Short List to the Sh*t List
Conservative legal scholars believe in things like originalism and the Second Amendment. Donald Trump’s OK with those, but he really believes in only one thing.
June 2, 2025
Poulomi Saha
The Real Reason We Want to See MAGA as a Cult
Understanding Trump’s movement this way helps us believe it will come to some disastrous end.
June 2, 2025
Grace Segers
Small Farmers Are Struggling With Trumpian Chaos—and Bracing for More
Grant freezes and program cuts at USDA, as well as efforts to slash food stamps, could leave community providers in rural America floundering.
June 2, 2025
Michael Tomasky
Trump’s Out-of-Control Debt Is Not a Bug. To the GOP, It’s a Feature.
Which presidents have added the most to the national debt? Those free-spending liberal Democrats? Think again, and think about the reason why.
June 1, 2025
Alex Shephard
Elon Musk’s Reign of Terror Is Only Just Beginning
His “departure” from the government is anything but.
May 31, 2025
Emily Tamkin
The Jewish Students Punished in the Name of Jewish Safety
Jewish students have been prevented from graduating after taking part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
May 30, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Angry New Tirade Over Tariff Ruling Accidentally Says Too Much
In suggesting that Congress is a mere nuisance that shouldn’t shape trade policy, Trump revealed his true, unspoken ambitions.
May 30, 2025
Michael Tomasky
The Only “Judicial Coup” in This Country Is by Trump Against Judges
The Trump administration is getting its butt kicked in court. That’s great. But an unprecedented assault on the judiciary is coming.
May 30, 2025
E.J. Dionne Jr.
A New Working-Class GOP? If “Working-Class” Means $4.3 Million a Year!
Last year, Trump won praise for building a new GOP. But the Big, Beautiful Bill utterly shatters the illusion that he is some sort of brilliant policy innovator.
May 29, 2025
Timothy Noah
A Trade Court Stopped Trump’s Tariffs. Why Didn’t Congress?
The law is clear, and the legislature’s powers are unambiguous. But Republicans in Washington have fully knuckled under.
May 29, 2025
Grace Segers
Trump’s DOJ Has Put Reproductive Health Clinics Under Threat
With the administration’s refusal to enforce a key law for protecting clinics, abortion providers are bracing for increased disruptions.
May 28, 2025
Felipe De La Hoz
The Laws Propping Up Trump’s Masked Deportation Army
Across the country, unidentifiable law enforcement agents are snatching unsuspecting people off the streets where they live. But just because it’s beyond the pale doesn’t make it illegal.
May 28, 2025
Parker Molloy
Scott Pelley Warns Graduates About the Threats to American Democracy
The “60 Minutes” correspondent never mentioned Trump by name, but his call to defend democratic institutions was apparently too much for the MAGA crowd to handle.
May 28, 2025
Timothy Noah
The Supreme Court Wants to Crush Regulation—but Not the Fed
The legal reasoning on this point is unbelievably sloppy—even for this court.
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