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May 17, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Embrace of White South Africans Takes Dark, Unnerving New Turn
First, Trump officials cut off refugee resettlement from all over the world. Then they got those white Afrikaners here in three months. Funny how that happened.
May 16, 2025
Timothy Noah
Trump’s All-Out Culture War Is Now Targeting Philanthropy
Conservatives used to want to replace government assistance with private giving. Now that’s out, too.
May 16, 2025
Monica Potts
Americans Like Medicaid—But They Also Like Work Requirements
This is the dilemma the Democrats face as the Republicans push to impose onerous hurdles on Medicaid in their budget bill.
May 16, 2025
Michael Tomasky
Trump’s Swamp Just Got a Whole Lot Bigger and Swampier
On wretched display this week: the three ugly faces of MAGA.
May 16, 2025
Jess Coleman
New York Democrats Are Sabotaging Their Biggest Policy Success
The fight over congestion pricing in New York City illuminates the party’s struggle to define and defend a positive vision.
May 16, 2025
Alex Shephard
Trump Is Doing a Good Job of Making Biden Look Bad
The president’s Middle East romp is defying the rules at every turn. If only his predecessor had shown the same courage.
May 15, 2025
Matt Ford
Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Case Has the Supreme Court Baffled
The Trump administration’s brief against the Fourteenth Amendment is a bad one, and it naturally led to some tortured legal reasoning from his solicitor general.
May 15, 2025
Monica Potts
Trump’s Corruption Is a Huge Problem. But It’s a Hard Sell to Voters.
The scant polling evidence suggests that corruption is not a decisive factor for voters—yet there is a way for Democrats to leverage the president’s malfeasance in next year’s midterm elections.
May 15, 2025
Ross Rosenfeld
How Trump’s “Emergency” Powers Could Become Permanent
The president is declaring emergencies on everything from an “invasion” of immigrants to a mythical shortage of fossil fuel production. But it’s all just a ploy for him to act like a Roman emperor.
May 14, 2025
Greg Sargent
Mike Johnson Just Wrecked Trump’s Ugly “Working-Class GOP” Scam
Donald Trump talked a good game about raising taxes on the rich. Guess who benefits from a provision buried deep within the new GOP bill?
May 14, 2025
Harry Litman
Trump Writes Congress out of the Constitution—and Congress Says Fine
The question regarding the Qatari plane deal isn’t whether it’s corrupt or illegal. It’s both of those. The question is, who will stop it?
May 14, 2025
Timothy Noah
The Republican Tax Bill Screws the Working Class
Alas, if history is any guide, they’ll love it anyway.
May 14, 2025
Yousef Munayyer
Trump Has Big Mideast Goals, and He Knows the Obstacle Is Netanyahu
Who would have guessed that the Trump-Netanyahu split would have come this fast, over this many things? It’s the biggest surprise of Trump 2.0, by far.
May 13, 2025
Alex Shephard
America Has Never Seen a President This Corrupt
Trump’s brazen use of the White House to advance his family businesses should be one of the biggest scandals in the country’s history.
May 13, 2025
Indigo Olivier
Trump’s Attacks on International Students Are the Start of a Wider War
The administration is using immigration enforcement as a guise to mask its plans to decimate vital research and academic freedom.
May 13, 2025
Matt Ford
The Trump Administration’s Reckless Policies Will Kill Children
The administration’s “pronatalist” position is substantially at odds with a range of policy decisions that will cause kids to sicken and die.
May 13, 2025
Timothy Noah
The Trump White House Brings Back Supply-Side Magical Thinking
You know the GOP’s budget mess is getting desperate when a top economic aide says tax cuts increase revenue.
May 12, 2025
Casey Quinlan
Don’t Expect Much Trade-War Pushback From Corporate America
With firms facing economic uncertainty and caught in the political crossfire, customers who want transparency about the cost of goods have never had it so hard.
May 12, 2025
Michael Tomasky
Public-Sector Workers Are Heroes, and Democrats Should Say So
A new memo shows how Trump is gunning to weaken Elizabeth Warren’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It’s time to fight, Democrats.
May 11, 2025
Jason Linkins
The Democrats Have an Age-Old Problem
The party is stewing with tension between young blood and their decorated elders. But the real fault line may have more to do with vigor than with age.
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