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Lines in the Sand: How Redistricting Became the Supreme Court’s Favorite Shape-Shiting Weapon
It’s once again that magical time in America when maps are less about geography and more about strategy—where lines aren’t drawn by cartographers but by career politicians with a vengeance kink. This month, the Supreme Court decided to up the ante in Louisiana’s redistricting case, because apparently we haven’t suffered enough slow-moving constitutional erosion for
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Depth Charges and Daddy Issues: America’s Favorite Strongman Plays Battleship With the World
In a turn of events that could only be described as “textbook masculine fragility but with submarines,” former President Donald J. Trump has responded to a so-called “highly provocative” statement from Russia not with diplomacy, nor with tact, nor even with a sharply worded tweet—but with the deployment of two nuclear submarines. Because nothing says
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The Gilded Ceiling: When Diplomacy Gets a Dance Floor Upgrade
It was the kind of announcement that arrived with all the subtlety of a gold-plated wrecking ball: Former President Donald Trump, against the backdrop of campaign chants and crystal chandeliers, declared that the White House—America’s most sacred secular shrine—will soon be getting a 90,000-square-foot ballroom. Because apparently, what the executive branch lacked most wasn’t decorum,
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Facts, Fiction, and That Guy from High School Who’s Now a Virologist, Economist, and War Historian
Once upon a time—let’s call it the before times—truth had a certain charm. It was slower, harder to reach, and required more than a Canva infographic and a TikTok voiceover to feel real. Then the internet happened, and suddenly everyone’s Aunt Donna was a part-time epidemiologist with a minor in constitutional law and a doctorate
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From Lapdog to Lapel Pin: Trump Finds His Spine Somewhere Between Golf Holes and Polling Numbers
Let the historians mark the date: Donald J. Trump—formerly known as Vladimir Putin’s American pet project, emotional support cheerleader, and part-time Moscow mannequin—has apparently developed a taste for diplomacy with teeth. This week, the ex-president and likely 2024 nominee took a brief intermission from threatening NATO, throwing cheeseburgers at campaign staff, and offering to “fix”
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Budget Balanced, Children Buried: Austerity’s Most Efficient Program Yet
This week, the free market claimed another quiet victory as reports emerged that 652 Nigerian children have died of malnutrition—an achievement brought to you by the miracle of international funding cuts and the global community’s ongoing commitment to staring directly into a fire and commenting on the smoke. Doctors Without Borders, the organization still laboring
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Witch Hunt or Fever Dream? Trump Declares War on Kamala, Beyoncé, and Oprah—Because Apparently the Moon Was Booked
In a move that would be deeply concerning if it weren’t also deeply incoherent, former President Donald J. Trump has called for the prosecution of Vice President Kamala Harris, cultural deity Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, and global empathy czarina Oprah Winfrey in connection with…the Epstein fallout. Yes, that Epstein fallout. The conspiracy theory that refuses to die,
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Middle East Peace Stalls as Trump Discovers Hamas Isn’t a Golf Course
In what political historians will one day refer to as either a diplomatic low point or Tuesday, President Donald J. Trump announced that Hamas is to blame for the breakdown of ceasefire negotiations in Gaza, citing their “lack of seriousness” and “terrible negotiation posture”—two critiques he’s famously allergic to applying domestically. With peace talks collapsing
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The Abs Are a Distraction: Biden’s Brain, Trump’s Everything, and the GOP’s Quest for a Mirror
If there’s one thing House Republicans care about, it’s fitness. Physical fitness. Mental fitness. Political fitness. Fitness to serve, fitness to lead, fitness to blink in time with the national anthem. And so, in a bold bipartisan act of historical concern, the GOP has launched a sweeping investigation into former President Joe Biden’s cognitive ability