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July 28, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Planned Parenthood Gets Huge Win Against Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”
Donald Trump is trying to gut Planned Parenthood’s funding.
July 28, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Goes on Bizarre Rant About Windmills Driving Whales Crazy
Donald Trump derailed a press conference with his complaints.
July 25, 2025
Robert McCoy
Economists Are Seriously Alarmed About Official Data Under Trump
A new poll of economists finds an overwhelming majority agree that the U.S. government’s official data on the economy is a big problem.
July 25, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Says a Weak Dollar Is a Good Thing, Actually
And up is down, and black is white.
July 24, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Jerome Powell Calls BS to Trump’s Face as He Spouts Made-Up Numbers
The Federal Reserve chair fact-checked Donald Trump in real time as the president tries to come up with a reason to fire him.
July 24, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Is Really Asking People to Venmo to Pay Off the National Debt
You can now Venmo the government to try to reduce the massive national debt.
July 23, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Guess Who Was the Only President Less Popular Than Trump Right Now?
A brutal poll reveals a hilarious truth about Donald Trump’s approval numbers.
July 23, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Fails Basic Math Problem Trying to Brag About Drug Prices
According to Donald Trump, prescription drugs will now cost negative money.
July 23, 2025
Dylan Gyauch-Lewis
An Altogether Different Kind of Abundance Agenda
In 1935,
The New Republic
chronicled the first big “abundance” movement—and mapped the fault lines of what could be the next big debate on the left.
July 21, 2025
Timothy Noah
The Working Class Is More Left-Wing Than You Think
A new survey shows that even Trump’s working-class coalition is moving leftward on social issues.
July 18, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Team Sabotaged Fed Renovation as Trump Started War With Powell
Donald Trump is attacking Jerome Powell over a pricey renovation of the Federal Reserve headquarters. But the absurd renovation requests came from his team.
July 17, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Press Secretary Flubs Basic Trade Detail on Russia Tariffs
Karoline Leavitt appears to have a tenuous grasp of international trade relations.
July 17, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Devastating New Poll Shows Almost Everyone Is Unhappy Under Trump
Donald Trump has gotten a brutal performance review.
July 16, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Whines About Person Who Appointed Powell, Forgetting It Was Him
As he wages war on Fed Chair Jerome Powell, Donald Trump can’t seem to remember he was the one who first appointed him.
July 15, 2025
Timothy Noah
Trump Promised to End Inflation. He’s Bringing It Back Instead.
The president’s tariffs tripled inflation last month—and you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
July 15, 2025
Timothy Noah
The Small Army of Trump Sycophants Gunning to be the Next Fed Chair
Kevin Hassett is toadying hard to win the president’s favor. But don’t count out Kevin Warsh or Scott Bessent just yet in this latest White House blandishment derby.
July 14, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Suddenly Turns on Putin With Nonsense Threat
What even are “secondary tariffs”?
July 14, 2025
Casey Quinlan
The Stealth Attack on Women in Trump’s Budget Bill
The “big, beautiful” bill is straight out of the “trad wife” fantasia, and engineered to do tremendous damage to the lives and livelihoods of women.
July 13, 2025
Grace Segers
How Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Stiffed Tipped Workers
A provision to eliminate income taxes on tips will exclude the lowest-income workers and only serve a sliver of the population.
July 11, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Podcast Bro Andrew Schulz Turns Against Trump (After Voting for Him)
A lot of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters are suddenly regretting their vote.
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