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July 6, 2026
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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent
Transcript: MAGA Wants to Force Women to Pee in Cups at Airports
As MAGA personalities start demanding a ban on women coming to the U.S. and having babies, a writer who covers Trumpism explains what this reveals about today’s right—and why we should take it seriously.
July 6, 2026
Abdullah Shihipar
How Unions Can Save Higher Education—and Democracy
Labor organizing on campus is vitally needed in academia. It’s also a necessary step in connecting academics to the other workers facing the same struggles.
July 6, 2026
Michael Tomasky
Donald Trump Has a New—and Stupid and Likely Ineffective—Favorite Word
He thinks he’s finally found a winning message to rescue the Republicans’ dim midterm chances. But as usual, he’s probably fooling himself.
July 6, 2026
Virginia Heffernan
It Took a While, but Americans May Have Found Something We All Hate
The astonishing grassroots protests against data centers give us something new: a mass mobilization focused squarely on protecting American hometowns from oligarchic exploitation.
July 6, 2026
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Katherine Kelaidis
How Historians Took Over Liberal Punditry
The hottest resistance talking aheads during Trump 2.0 are academics. What happened?
July 6, 2026
Podcast
The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent
MAGA Wants to Force Women to Pee in Cups at Airports
As MAGA personalities start demanding a ban on women coming to the U.S. and having babies, a writer who covers Trumpism explains what this reveals about today’s right—and why we should take it seriously.
July 5, 2026
Luke Barnes
This Data Center Is Everything That Everyone Hates About AI
Utah’s Stratos Project is showing how everyone loses in the unregulated rush to build these Big Tech behemoths—even investors.
July 4, 2026
Leander Schaerlaeckens
The 2026 World Cup’s Most Political Team Is Also (Probably) Its Best
Seemingly every two years, when a World Cup or European Championship comes along, another tired debate sparks off in France, which may well have the most politicized national team in soccer.
July 4, 2026
Liza Featherstone
Ten Great American Achievements We Can’t Take for Granted
Our achievements as a country are real, but they’re imperiled by Trumpism and other threats.
July 4, 2026
Katherine Stewart
Trump’s 250th Is a Festival of Slop History
Amid our semiquincentennial celebration, the religious right is promoting its own revisionist version of the nation’s founding.
July 4, 2026
Jason Linkins
SCOTUS’s Anti-Constitutional Crusade to Create Second-Class Citizens
The conservative legal movement lost its bid to eradicate birthright citizenship, but its war on the Reconstruction Amendments is going to continue.
July 3, 2026
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TNR Readers’ Poll: Who Were the Best—and Worst—U.S. Presidents?
Weigh in on this and other questions, including the most important women and people of color in American history.
July 3, 2026
Michael Tomasky
Donald Trump Is a Treacherous, Idolatrous, Know-Nothing Anti-Patriot
As we celebrate America’s 250th birthday—and not the sitting president—let’s remember what true patriotism looks like.
July 3, 2026
Igor Volsky
The Founders’ Warnings About Excess Wealth Have Come Appallingly True
Using the tax code to break up this concentrated wealth and power isn’t radical. It’s as American as Jefferson and Madison.
July 3, 2026
Ian Head
My Front-Row Seat to the Slow Death of the Freedom of Information Act
I file FOIA requests for a living, and the landmark law—which turns 60 this week—is near a breaking point.
July 3, 2026
Matt Ford
What in the World Did Brett Kavanaugh Write on Birthright Citizenship?
His 10-page opinion is strangely adrift from rhyme or reason, and it ends up reinforcing a far more extreme position than any of his colleagues’.
July 3, 2026
Magazine
Osita Nwanevu
Who Owns the Declaration of Independence?
The founding document has been fought over since it was written. Today, we can let Trump claim it, or we can take up its battle cry to “alter or to abolish” what’s destroying our country.
July 2, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump’s July 4 Event Is Coming Apart at the Seams—Literally
A piece of the stage broke off during a rehearsal, appearing to nearly hit some performers.
July 2, 2026
Hafiz Rashid
Pirro Reveals Reflecting Pool Indictment of U.S. Olympian Is a Sham
A former U.S. Olympian was indicted on a felony charge after he touched the reflecting pool. The top DOJ official responsible can’t explain what the damage actually was.
July 2, 2026
Hafiz Rashid
Trump’s American State Fair Gets Even Worse Thanks to the Heat Wave
Trump’s celebrations for America’s 250th anniversary are falling further apart.
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