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May 5, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump’s Promise to Pay Undocumented Immigrants to Leave Is a Trap
As with every “deal” the president offers, there’s a huge catch.
May 5, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Whines About Kids Having Too Many Pencils In Wild Tariffs Rant
Trump is once again saying that kids don’t deserve a lot of toys (or pencils, apparently).
May 5, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Reportedly Told January 6 Militant and Hate Leader “I Love You”
Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and his mother met with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
May 5, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Erupts After Republican Guru Rips Him on Fox News
The president can’t handle criticism of his remarks about children’s dolls.
May 5, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Here’s Where Trump Got His Idiotic Idea to Tariff Foreign Movies
Someone close to Donald Trump planted the idea in his head that the United States should tariff foreign movies (whatever that means).
May 5, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Seems to Have Decided to Reopen Alcatraz Because of a Movie
Is this how the president of the United States is making major decisions now?
May 5, 2025
Podcast
The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent
Transcript: Fox News Visibly Rattled as Trump’s Slide in Polls Worsens
As Fox News personalities work overtime to shield their viewers from Trump’s deepening unpopularity, a shrewd observer of right-wing media explains the deeper problems this reveals for the MAGA movement.
May 5, 2025
Peter Dreier
Whatever Happened to the Power Elite?
The trio of interests atop business, military, and government depicted in C. Wright Mills’s postwar critique is no longer united in setting the national agenda.
May 5, 2025
Michael Tomasky
Donald Trump’s Biggest, Dumbest Lie Is …
Really
Big and
Really
Dumb
The president is peddling hot nonsense on what tariffs can do for America—and the person he’s conned the most seems to be himself.
May 5, 2025
David S. Abraham
How the United States Lost the Rare Earth Materials War to China
Chinese dominance in this critical sector of the economy did not happen by accident—it was a policy choice.
May 5, 2025
Podcast
The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent
Trump’s Rage at Fox News over Bad Poll Hints at Coming Fiasco for MAGA
As Trump’s worsening polls force Fox News personalities to deny what the numbers are clearly showing, a shrewd observer of right-wing media explains the deeper problem all this exposes for the MAGA movement.
May 4, 2025
Magazine
Sam Rosenfeld
Michael Lewis’s Paean to Federal Workers Hits Differently Under DOGE
While Elon Musk paints federal bureaucrats as inefficient or worse, Lewis and other literary essayists shine a light on the quiet heroes of the civil service.
May 3, 2025
Greg Sargent
How Trump Accidentally Sabotaged His Own Case Against Abrego Garcia
Trump has now admitted twice that he could bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home, but says his lawyers are telling him not to. This was a very dumb move—and also a very revealing one.
May 2, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Elon Musk Is Poised to Get Another Huge Payday From the Government
Cuts to NASA mean that Musk’s SpaceX company is well positioned to reap in a billion dollars—at least—in government contracts.
May 2, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Republican Congressman Has Full-Blown Meltdown Over Halal Restaurant
You will never guess what Mike Collins is comparing the opening of a new halal restaurant to.
May 2, 2025
Edith Olmsted
CNN’s Resident Trump Defender Doesn’t Know How the Constitution Works
Scott Jennings apparently doesn't know that Congress, not the president, is responsible for declaring war.
May 2, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Judges Who Rule Against Trump Become Target of New MAGA War
This could soon have a chilling effect across the courts—if it hasn’t already.
May 2, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Trump Threatens to Take Over Congress’s Powers in Budget War
Donald Trump just released a radical budget proposal. And he’s threatening Congress if they don’t fall in line.
May 2, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump’s Next National Security Adviser Might Be His Worst Ally
Stephen Miller is reportedly under consideration to join the president’s Cabinet after Mike Waltz’s abrupt dismissal.
May 2, 2025
Jonathan Guyer
The Forgotten Forever War That Cost Mike Waltz His Job
America has been bombing Yemen for two decades. That conflict ultimately led to Waltz’s dismissal as national security adviser.
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