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The Doha Detour: How Trump’s Foreign Policy Became a Jet Lagged Choose-Your-Own-Adventure
By now, America’s allies have learned to read the signs. The tweet that drops at 3 a.m. Doha time. The “unscheduled meeting” that doubles as a refueling stop. The grinning photo op that becomes a tariff threat before the plane lands. Donald Trump’s second-term foreign policy isn’t so much a doctrine as a recurring flight
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The Forest Hills Compact: How the Left Finally Learned to Fill a Stadium Thanks To Mamdani, Bernie Sanders, and AOC
It takes a certain kind of political gravity to fill Forest Hills Stadium with hope. Not the campaign-slogan kind, but the kind that hums under the skin, the kind that makes people believe power might still be something they can touch. On a humid New York afternoon, tens of thousands showed up for Zohran Mamdani’s
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Gavin Newsom Has Entered The 2028 Presidential Chat
Some politicians run for president. Others just wait until the universe hands them a feud that doubles as an audition. Gavin Newsom appears to have found his in a televised spat about truck drivers, English proficiency, and the statistical miracle of California’s 40% lower fatal crash rate. During his CBS News Sunday Morning interview, Newsom
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Freedom, Firewalls, and Freefall: How Trump’s Week in Power Looked Like a Season Finale Written by Kafka
There are weeks in American politics that feel like historical footnotes, and there are weeks that feel like the Constitution was left in a microwave. This one was the latter. By midweek, the Trump administration managed to detain a journalist, nationalize TikTok through a handshake with Xi, pay the military during a government shutdown, and
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The Basket Was Too Small: America’s Deplorable MAGA Problem Is a Feature, Not a Bug
There was a time when Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” remark was treated as a political scandal, a supposed gaffe that confirmed her elitism. The pundits clutched pearls, the right performed outrage, and the press dissected it like a frog in biology class. But looking back, she wasn’t wrong; she was being polite. If anything,
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The Great Denaturalization Reboot: When Patriotism Became a Costume Party For MAGA
It’s happening again. The right has discovered a thrilling new hobby: pretending the Fourteenth Amendment is optional. Apparently, “We the People” now comes with a disclaimer—“unless you’re Muslim, queer, left of Ronald Reagan, or pronounce your name with too many vowels.” Across talk radio, committee hearings, and influencer podcasts with the production value of a
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Trump’s Federal Eyes At Your Precinct Door, Brought To You By The People Who Keep Screaming Fraud
The first thing to understand is that the suit with the clipboard is not there for you. That’s the official line, of course. The Justice Department says the monitors are there to “protect voting rights,” “ensure transparency,” and “uphold the integrity of the process.” They’re being dispatched to six jurisdictions: Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Kern,
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Arctic Frostbite: How Trump’s DOJ Turned Revenge Into a Branch of Government
Some scandals melt under scrutiny. Others freeze time itself—like Operation Arctic Frost, the FBI’s now-infamous 2022 election-interference investigation that asked a few telecom companies for call logs and somehow got rebranded as the new Watergate. The facts were simple enough: the Bureau, approved at senior levels by Merrick Garland, Christopher Wray, and Lisa Monaco, used
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The Recall Economy: How Deregulation Turns Your Pantry, Medicine Cabinet, and Nursery Into a Roulette Wheel
There’s a joke that isn’t funny anymore: if you want to understand American politics, skip the speeches and read the recall notices. The speeches are for theater; the recalls are for people who eat food, put drops in their eyes, buckle a baby into a lounger, or charge a phone without wondering if the battery
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Trump’s Meme Administration: When the Government’s Group Chat Took Over the Country
Somewhere between the press briefing room and a Fortnite lobby, the machinery of American governance appears to have been replaced by a collection of preteens armed with official seals, a ring light, and an unhealthy relationship with social media validation. The official feeds of the White House, DOJ, Pentagon, and assorted Cabinet offices now read