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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
Edith Olmsted
Trump’s Tariffs Will Cost Consumers, Walmart CFO Grimly Warns
Walmart is placing the blame for rising costs squarely on Donald Trump’s shoulders.
May 15, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Justice Department Makes Insane Claim About Obeying Court Orders
Donald Trump’s lawyers made the argument to the Supreme Court during a hearing on birthright citizenship.
May 15, 2025
Edith Olmsted
How Elon Musk Used State Department to Force Starlink on a Country
Elon Musk is turning the U.S. government into his personal P.R. firm.
May 15, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Missouri Voters Overturned an Abortion Ban. Republicans Ignored Them.
State Republican senators have usurped the will of the voters on abortion.
May 15, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Trump Goes on Weird Rant About Military Planes Not Being Pretty Enough
During a meeting in Qatar, Trump went on a tangent complaining about how stealth military planes are ugly.
May 15, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Calls U.S. “STUPID” in Wild Rant on Birthright Citizenship
Donald Trump posted a screed against birthright citizenship just hours before the Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on the constitutional right.
May 15, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump’s Legal Win Comes Back to Bite Him With Arrested Wisconsin Judge
Judge Hannah Dugan is using Donald Trump’s own arguments against him in her case.
May 15, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Has Bonkers Excuse for Why Putin Is Skipping Ukraine Peace Talks
Donald Trump seems to think he’s the reason for Vladimir Putin’s absence.
May 15, 2025
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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent
Transcript: MAGA Senator Shockingly Admits GOP Screwing Trump Voters
As a leading Trump ally tells the truth about the big House GOP spending bill, a top health care reporter explains how badly it will shaft MAGA working class voters—and why it constitutes a major betrayal.
May 15, 2025
Magazine
Christopher Hooks
Real Men Steal Countries: Inside Trump’s Absurd Greenland Obsession
An underdressed reporter journeys across icy, barren Greenland—and into Trump’s bored, nineteenth-century brain.
May 15, 2025
Daoud Kuttab
My Palestinian Family Had a Home in West Jerusalem. Then Came 1948.
Today, Palestinians commemorate the Nakba, when we were removed from our homes and land. We carry the stories of our families not to dwell on the past, but to shape a better future.
May 15, 2025
Sarah Stankorb
The Americans Who Quit the Church to Become Witches—Among Other Things
While millions are leaving the organized Christian faiths, they’re not abandoning spirituality. Instead, they’re seeking practices outside old institutions.
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
Hafiz Rashid
Turns Out Elon Musk Didn’t Pay Everyone Who Signed His Shady Petition
Elon Musk is about to be in a heap of legal trouble over that 2024 election petition.
May 14, 2025
Marin Scotten
RFK Jr. Admits Those Massive NIH Cuts Are Gonna Hurt
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a shocking confession while testifying before Congress.
May 14, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
One of Trump’s Afrikaner “Refugees” Is Quite the Antisemite
Trump said he would tolerate no antisemitism for people entering the U.S. But Charles Kleinhaus has a history of complaining about Jews online.
May 14, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Mike Johnson Has Bonkers Defense of Trump’s Open Corruption
Apparently, Mike Johnson thinks there is a right way to be corrupt.
May 14, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Trump Cedes Ground to China as He Bans All Work on G20 Summit
Donald Trump just issued a shocking order to all government agencies on the G20 summit in South Africa.
May 14, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Here’s the Real Reason Trump Caved on China Tariffs
Donald Trump’s own inner circle warned him the tariffs could be disastrous.
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