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June 30, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump’s Budget Bill Is Most Unpopular Move Yet, New Poll Shows
Donald Trump’s budget bill is underwater in voter approval polls.
June 30, 2025
Podcast
The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent
“Mind-Boggling”: Trump Voters Shocked at How Badly He’s Screwing Them
As evidence mounts that voters in Trump country are getting hammered by his biggest initiatives, an economist paints a dark picture of just how bad the sum total of these policies will be for working people.
June 27, 2025
Michael Tomasky
How Can the Democrats Be Losing to These Cruel, Stupid, Inept People?
You may have noticed: While Republicans debate Medicaid and other cuts, there’s one aspect of Trump’s big ugly bill that absolutely cannot be discussed.
June 26, 2025
Robert McCoy
Cognitive Decline? Trump Rambles About Paper Clip During Speech
“Somebody came up with the idea of the paper clip many years ago. 1817.” It was, in fact, much later.
June 26, 2025
Robert McCoy
The GOP Has a New Public Enemy Number One
Republicans are demanding that the Senate parliamentarian be fired for the crime of doing her job.
June 26, 2025
Robert McCoy
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Is in Big Trouble
With a self-imposed deadline fast approaching, the GOP’s plan to slash health care funding to hand a massive tax cut to the rich has hit yet another snag.
June 25, 2025
Magazine
Grace Byron
Nancy Mace Is the Future of the Republican Party
The South Carolina representative isn’t just a bigot and a laughingstock. She’s pioneering a media strategy that her GOP colleagues will follow.
June 23, 2025
Astra Taylor
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Eleni Schirmer
The Republican Plot to Un-Educate America
Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is an extinction-level event for higher education that would annihilate the country’s intellectual potential.
June 18, 2025
Timothy Noah
Trump’s Cruel and Costly Budget Bill Just Got Even Worse
The Senate’s version will blow up the deficit just as much as the House’s—and its Medicaid cuts are deeper.
June 11, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Poll: Americans Really, Really Hate Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill
A new poll found that a majority of Americans are against the bill—and that only two-thirds of Republicans like it.
June 6, 2025
Greg Sargent
The Real Reason for the Trump-Musk Feud Is Uglier Than You Think
Strip away the ego contest, and what you really see here is a competition about how to screw over poor and working people more effectively.
June 6, 2025
Michael Tomasky
There’s Only One Question Here: Can Musk Bring Trump Down if He Wants?
The conventional wisdom is that Trump holds more cards than Musk. But if that’s wrong, we’re in for some fun times.
June 5, 2025
Alex Shephard
Democrats, Let Trump and Elon Fight
Don’t be tempted to step in. Definitely don’t try to back Elon. Just sit back and watch.
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.
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
Malcolm Ferguson
It’s Happening Again: Town Hall Crowd Boos GOP Rep for Backing Trump
Iowa’s Ashley Hinson was booed and jeered when she backed President Trump on Wednesday.
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