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Trump Calls Fentanyl a Weapon of Mass Destruction, and the Iraq War Echo Starts Clearing Its Throat
When you rename a crisis, you also rename what you’re allowed to do about it. If you ever want to watch a government change the shape of reality without changing the underlying problem, pay attention to vocabulary. Not the boring vocabulary, not the kind that lives in briefing binders, but the kind that arrives with
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America’s Food Safety Is So Broken That Even the Experts Eat Like They’re Disarming a Bomb
When your dinner order starts to sound like a legal deposition, something has gone very wrong There is a moment, somewhere between opening a menu and making eye contact with the waiter, when modern Americans are expected to perform confidence. We scan descriptions of leafy greens and artisanal toppings, nod thoughtfully at words like fresh
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Bondi Beach and the Paperwork After the Sirens
A terror attack, a nation in shock, and the familiar moment when everyone realizes the system worked exactly as designed, which is to say too late. Bondi Beach is supposed to be the place Australia sends to the world as proof of ease. Sun, water, the soft promise that life can be simple if you
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2028: Democrats Need A New Deal For A New Era
By 2028 the Democratic Party must stop running as a cautious maintenance crew and instead offer an unapologetic governing vision that begins with abolishing the filibuster to enable majority rule, then moves swiftly into universal government-backed health care, aggressive antitrust enforcement, modern gun safety laws, and a rebalanced tax code that raises rates on billionaires…
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Israel and Gaza: Ceasefire With an Asterisk
A “targeted” hit, a disputed death, civilian casualties, and the world’s most brittle truce doing that familiar thing where it pretends it can survive physics. Israel announced it carried out a targeted strike in Gaza City that it says killed Raed Saed (also rendered Raad Saad), described by the Israeli military as a senior Hamas
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South Carolina’s Measles Outbreak Proves RFK Jr. and Trump Freedom Includes Airborne Particles
A holiday travel season, a church-centered cluster, and a virus that does not care about your Facebook degree in “doing your own research.” In the Upstate of South Carolina, public health officials are doing the thing we always swear we want government to do, quietly, competently, with clipboards and contact tracing and the slow dread
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Senate Filibusters Your Healthcare and Calls It Fiscal Discipline
Two 51-48 votes, two dead plans, and a whole lot of lawmakers acting like “imminent” is a decorative word that looks nice in press releases. The U.S. Senate just performed one of its signature magic tricks: taking a cliff, putting a warning sign next to it, posing for photos in front of the warning sign,
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Snowflake Is Melting Down: Trump Labels His Hurt Feelings Treasonous
The Founding Fathers Forgot to Mention That Napping is Now a State Secret Donald Trump has finally invented a new branch of jurisprudence called “feelings treason,” where noticing a seventy-nine-year-old man is tired is punishable by the full force of the internet. It was only a matter of time before Donald Trump, a man who
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The Freedom to Go Broke: Republicans Unveil Their Plan to Liberate You From Affordable Healthcare
The GOP has finally found a solution to the problem of people having health insurance. It involves taking the money away and giving you a coupon for a savings account you cannot afford to fund. There is a specific kind of grim comedy that defines American healthcare policy. It is the comedy of a man
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The Supreme Court is About to Turn the Constitution into a Customer Service Complaint Line That Goes Straight to Voicemail
If you have ever looked at the federal government and thought, “You know what this place needs? More impulsivity and less adult supervision,” then boy, does the Supreme Court have a treat for you. The high court is currently preparing to hand Donald Trump the keys to the regulatory state, effectively allowing him to treat