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June 3, 2025
Kate Aronoff
Trump Is Going to Raise Your Insurance Premiums
To model risk, insurance companies rely on climate data gathered by the federal government. The Trump administration is decimating the agencies collecting it. Guess who will pay?
June 2, 2025
Poulomi Saha
The Real Reason We Want to See MAGA as a Cult
Understanding Trump’s movement this way helps us believe it will come to some disastrous end.
June 2, 2025
Grace Segers
Small Farmers Are Struggling With Trumpian Chaos—and Bracing for More
Grant freezes and program cuts at USDA, as well as efforts to slash food stamps, could leave community providers in rural America floundering.
June 2, 2025
Michael Tomasky
Trump’s Out-of-Control Debt Is Not a Bug. To the GOP, It’s a Feature.
Which presidents have added the most to the national debt? Those free-spending liberal Democrats? Think again, and think about the reason why.
June 1, 2025
Alex Shephard
Elon Musk’s Reign of Terror Is Only Just Beginning
His “departure” from the government is anything but.
May 31, 2025
Emily Tamkin
The Jewish Students Punished in the Name of Jewish Safety
Jewish students have been prevented from graduating after taking part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
May 30, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Angry New Tirade Over Tariff Ruling Accidentally Says Too Much
In suggesting that Congress is a mere nuisance that shouldn’t shape trade policy, Trump revealed his true, unspoken ambitions.
May 30, 2025
Michael Tomasky
The Only “Judicial Coup” in This Country Is by Trump Against Judges
The Trump administration is getting its butt kicked in court. That’s great. But an unprecedented assault on the judiciary is coming.
May 30, 2025
E.J. Dionne Jr.
A New Working-Class GOP? If “Working-Class” Means $4.3 Million a Year!
Last year, Trump won praise for building a new GOP. But the Big, Beautiful Bill utterly shatters the illusion that he is some sort of brilliant policy innovator.
May 29, 2025
Timothy Noah
A Trade Court Stopped Trump’s Tariffs. Why Didn’t Congress?
The law is clear, and the legislature’s powers are unambiguous. But Republicans in Washington have fully knuckled under.
May 29, 2025
Grace Segers
Trump’s DOJ Has Put Reproductive Health Clinics Under Threat
With the administration’s refusal to enforce a key law for protecting clinics, abortion providers are bracing for increased disruptions.
May 28, 2025
Timothy Noah
The Supreme Court Wants to Crush Regulation—but Not the Fed
The legal reasoning on this point is unbelievably sloppy—even for this court.
May 28, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Fury at Harvard Gets More Deranged—and Exposes a Big MAGA Scam
Trump says he’s attacking foreign students because they’re taking places reserved for American kids. But the House GOP budget bill would hurt countless American students from the working class.
May 28, 2025
Parker Molloy
Scott Pelley Warns Graduates About the Threats to American Democracy
The “60 Minutes” correspondent never mentioned Trump by name, but his call to defend democratic institutions was apparently too much for the MAGA crowd to handle.
May 28, 2025
Felipe De La Hoz
The Laws Propping Up Trump’s Masked Deportation Army
Across the country, unidentifiable law enforcement agents are snatching unsuspecting people off the streets where they live. But just because it’s beyond the pale doesn’t make it illegal.
May 27, 2025
Alyssa Schukar
Tough Work, Tight Margins: How Cattle Branding Is Evolving in Nebraska
The population is shrinking, and the heifers just keep getting bigger. So the Burdick Ranch relies on neighbor volunteers and high school wrestlers to get the job done.
May 27, 2025
Michael Tomasky
Trump Talks “Trophy Wives” but Biden’s Autopen Is the New “Her Emails”
MAGAworld’s latest fixation can be explained simply: These reprobates love to lie, and it’s become way too easy for them to get away with it.
May 25, 2025
Joe Cirincione
Trump’s “Golden Dome” Won’t Work—but It’ll Make Elon Musk Richer
For 40 years, missile defense has never been about keeping America safe. It’s all about the contracts.
May 24, 2025
Jason Linkins
Joe Biden Is the Least of Democrats’ Problems
Some commentators say the former president’s age and acuity will be a litmus test for 2028 candidates. They are embarrassingly wrong.
May 23, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Lie About Dead “White Farmers” Just Got Even More Grotesque
That photo he brandished to Cyril Ramaphosa was from the Democratic Republic of Congo—whose refugees the Trump administration is pointedly not welcoming to America.
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