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The City That Wouldn’t Flinch: Zohran Mamdani and the Civics Test Nobody Studied For
There is a special kind of civic panic that arrives when hope polls above forty percent. It hums like a subway third rail, invisible until someone grounded enough dares to touch it. That, apparently, is the mood of New York City on the eve of its mayoral election, where Zohran Mamdani, a 32-year-old socialist assemblyman
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The Tariff King Goes to Court: Can One Man Tax a Nation by Proclamation?
There is something exquisitely American about watching a courtroom full of black-robed justices debate whether the President of the United States can wake up one morning, decide that toasters are a national security threat, and slap a fifty percent tax on them before lunch. That is, more or less, what the Supreme Court heard this
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60 Minutes of Trump Lies: The Interview, the Merger, and the Silence That Follows
A president in a gilded ballroom sells tariffs as salvation and testing as deterrence, a network in a deal cycle sells the interview as a moon landing, and somewhere between the wand and the wine glass the public is asked to accept the headline as the truth, not the truth as the headline. It begins
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The Great Gatsby 2: Trump’s Halloween Feast While America Starves
Every generation gets the Gatsby it deserves. In the 1920s, it was Jay. In 2025, it’s Donald. One spent his fortune chasing a dream across the bay. The other rented out an entire country and called it Mar-a-Lago. This week’s masquerade ball at the Winter White House wasn’t just a Halloween party—it was performance art.
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Hillary and Kamala Told You: A Double Ledger of Warnings They Laughed At and We Now Live In
History keeps receipts. Sometimes they’re in the form of subpoenas. Sometimes they’re in the form of women who told you exactly what would happen, then watched you pick the showman over the steward. This is that ledger. The one we were warned about. Twice. Once by Hillary Rodham Clinton, the woman mocked for sounding too
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Unconfirmed and Unraveling: How Trump’s Revenge Cases Are Collapsing Under Their Own Paperwork
It turns out that when you try to prosecute the rule of law with people who have never been legally seated to uphold it, things tend to fall apart faster than a Truth Social IPO. The Justice Department’s two showcase revenge cases—one against former FBI Director James Comey and the other against New York Attorney
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The Golden Throne of Mar-a-Lincoln: When Optics Replace Government
It is a curious image of the modern presidency: the country in a government shutdown, the courts ordering the Department of Agriculture to raid emergency funds to keep SNAP afloat, and the Commander-in-Chief posting 24 glossy photos of his newly renovated Lincoln Bathroom, complete with black and white statuary marble, gold handles on the tub,
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Judicial Interference and Other Inconvenient Miracles: How Two Judges Just Fed America While the White House Starved It for Sport
Somewhere between the concept of governance and the art of extortion, the Trump administration decided that feeding 42 million Americans during a shutdown was “optional.” The Department of Agriculture, apparently moonlighting as a nihilist book club, announced it would simply stop issuing SNAP benefits when the clock struck midnight on the first of the month.
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Break the Glass, Save the House: A Field Manual for Democrats Who Are Tired of Being the Only Adults in a Burning Room
There is a moment in every family crisis when the responsible sibling realizes that being responsible is not the same thing as being effective. You can tidy while the kitchen burns. You can organize receipts while the roof caves in. You can stand there with your binder of excellent plans and watch a cousin rewire
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The Art of the Tariff Deal: China Takes A Wrecking Ball To Trump
It takes a special kind of genius to spend ten months lighting the economy on fire only to celebrate putting out one match. President Donald Trump has done it again, staging a “historic tariff breakthrough” that cuts the fentanyl import duty from 20 percent to 10 percent and lowers the overall average tariff rate from