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May 19, 2026

Trump Admits He Knows His War Is Unpopular—and Wrecking the Economy

The president’s justification for the Iran war has somehow gotten even more unbelievable.

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May 19, 2026

Top Treasury Lawyer Quits as Trump Creates $1.8 Billion Slush Fund

Brian Morrissey was picked by the president to lead the Treasury Department. Even he had enough.

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May 19, 2026

Trump Suggests Alliance of Dictators to Take Down ICC

Donald Trump had an unnerving proposal in his meeting with China’s Xi Jinping.

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May 19, 2026

Trump’s $10 Billion IRS Shakedown Takes Darker Turn, Unnerving Experts

As Trump reaches a “settlement” with DOJ that hands $1.8 billion in taxpayer money to a fund he controls, a legal expert explains just how c...

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May 19, 2026

Democrats Investigate Todd Blanche as DOJ Launches Slush Fund

Democrats in the Senate want answers on how acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is running things.

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May 19, 2026

Trump’s Ballroom Quest Gets Even More Unhinged

Donald Trump is trying to get a key Senate adviser fired.

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May 19, 2026

Only One Republican Dares to Criticize Trump’s Corrupt Slush Fund

Senator Bill Cassidy is speaking up as the rest of his party remains silent.

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May 19, 2026

Bari Weiss Is Already Losing Power at CBS News

Weiss’s bosses are considering pulling back her control over content.

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May 19, 2026

The Crimes Georges Simenon Declined to Investigate

New editions of his “hard” novels show an obsession with furtive desires and misdeeds—and an uncanny obliviousness to the horrors under his...

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May 19, 2026

The AI Backlash Is an Opportunity for Democrats

All around the country, residents are fighting data centers. When will Democratic politicians realize the potential here?

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May 19, 2026

The Wanton Destruction of the Texas GOP Senate Primary

As John Cornyn and Ken Paxton suck up to Trump and take shots at one another, the post-Trump future of MAGA in the Lone Star State is being...

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May 19, 2026

The Anti-Abortion Movement’s Alarming Control Tactics

A series of lawsuits allege that women are being coerced into having abortions by friends, ex-partners, or others who are close to them. But...

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May 19, 2026

Trump’s America Features Bad Vibes and Bad Numbers. Horrendously Bad.

The president insisted that Biden’s economy was “failing” in 2024, when it was anything but. Then he came into office and showed everybody w...

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May 18, 2026

Jury Hands Elon Musk Embarrassing Loss Against OpenAI

Elon Musk accused Sam Altman of taking OpenAI too far from the company’s charitable principles.

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May 18, 2026

Trump’s $1.8 Billion Slush Fund Comes With Huge Disclaimer

The administration has “no liability” for what recipients do with the money—which may be important given who they’re giving it to.

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May 18, 2026

Here’s How Many Families Trump Has Separated—and It’s Staggering

Tens of thousands of U.S.-born children are no longer with their families.

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May 18, 2026

MAGA Senator Calls on More Iran Bombing for Absurd Reason

Senator Rick Scott suggested that Iran would “kill” Americans with a nuclear weapon if Trump didn’t “bomb the living daylights out of them.”

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May 18, 2026

Lindsey Graham Brags About How GOP Is Just a Trump Cult Now

Graham pointed to Senator Bill Cassidy’s primary loss as proof.

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May 18, 2026

When Will Americans Realize the Truth? Republicans Wreck the Economy.

Donald Trump is different in many ways from the Republican presidents who preceded him. But there’s one way he’s exactly the same.

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May 18, 2026

Fox News Wants the Iran War Ceasefire to End

Brian Kilmeade made an unpersuasive case to restart military actions on Monday.

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May 18, 2026

Trump Voter Says He Gets Now How Hitler Could “Brainwash” Millions

The man, who said he voted for Donald Trump three times, called the president a “liar” and a “con man.”

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May 18, 2026

Why Did Trump Just Post an Image of Him With a Buff, Shackled Alien?

The president went on a Sunday posting spree featuring some very weird images.

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May 18, 2026

Trump Just Hit a Pathetic New Low

A new poll from The New York Times and Siena University shows that the president is massively unpopular—and that voters hate the Iran War.

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May 18, 2026

Trump Rages Wildly at Journo—and Accidentally Exposes Big Iran Blunder

As Trump’s tirade reveals too much, a political scientist explains how his pathologies badly undermine him on the global stage—and why his f...

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May 18, 2026

Trump Is About to Create a Nearly $2 Billion MAGA Slush Fund

Tax payers will provide more than $1.7 billion to the president and his allies—including January 6ers.

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May 18, 2026

Trump Suggests He Was on the Brink of Breaking Iran Ceasefire

The president wrote on social media that he was prepared to attack Iran but was persuaded not to by the United States’s Gulf allies.

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May 18, 2026

How Trump’s Team Is Hiding How Fast He’s Aging

Donald Trump is in obvious physical decline—but you wouldn’t know it from how his team tells it.

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May 18, 2026

ICE Agent Charged With Four Counts of Assault in Minneapolis

Hennepin County’s District Court charged ICE’s Christian J. Castro after he fired his gun at a Venezuelan immigrant and then lied about it.

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May 18, 2026

Trump Demands Investigation Into Blue State That Didn’t Vote for Him

Donald Trump accused Maryland of election fraud.

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May 18, 2026

Trump’s Military Moves Spark Tsunami of Insider Trading

One service member has already been indicted over it.

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May 18, 2026

Trump Gives Bizarre Message to Half-Empty Christian Nationalist Event

Barely anyone attended the event—including Donald Trump.

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May 18, 2026

Trump Treated His Evangelical Supporters Like Dogs This Weekend

The president went golfing instead of attending a nine-hour prayer festival on Sunday.

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May 18, 2026

“Betrayal”: Trump EPA Rolls Back Key Drinking Water Protections

The EPA has repealed limits on four types of “forever chemicals.”

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May 18, 2026

Transcript: Trump Rages Wildly at Journo—and Exposes Big Iran Blunder

As Trump’s tirade reveals his biggest Iran mistake of all, a political scientist explains how his pathologies undermine him abroad—and why h...

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May 18, 2026

RFK Jr.’s War on Antidepressants Could Have Dire Consequences

As the Department of Health and Human Services encourages “deprescribing” of certain medications, the impact on mental health treatment coul...

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May 18, 2026

Making Sense of the Supreme Court’s Mifepristone Ruling

A recent shadow docket decision suggests that the court isn’t hungry for further legal restrictions on abortion. But there are two familiar...

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May 18, 2026

Samuel Alito Has a Corruption Problem

The justice has significant—and familiar—conflicts of interest in an upcoming Big Oil case. The question is: Will he recuse himself?

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May 18, 2026

Caro Claire Burke’s Thriller Captures a Tradwife’s Quiet Discontent

In “Yesteryear,” an influencer wakes up in the nineteenth century to find it’s nothing like Instagram.

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May 18, 2026

Trump Makes It Even Easier for Him to Ignore Protesters

Donald Trump is turning a main gathering spot into a parking lot.

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May 16, 2026

The Democrats Just Laid Down Their Arms. Again.

Abigail Spanberger’s response to the court decision that overthrew the will of voters on redistricting is a worrying sign of surrender.

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May 15, 2026

Trump’s $10 Billion Shakedown of IRS Takes Unnervingly Corrupt Turn

The president’s “settlement” with the IRS appears set to give him a slush fund of $1.7 billion to dole out to allies. How unconstitutional i...

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May 15, 2026

Jim Jordan Can’t Keep His Lies About Inflation Straight

The Ohio representative dismissed concerns about high gas prices—and then tried to claim he didn’t.

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May 15, 2026

How Do We Know the China Summit Was a Failure? Because Trump Did It.

Everything he does on the world stage is disastrous, and the U.S. is reviled globally. How much longer will some idiots believe this “Art of...

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May 15, 2026

Trump Has Made Bank Off Stocks From Companies With Federal Contracts

Donald Trump has bought and sold millions of dollars in stock from tech companies and government contractors.

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May 15, 2026

The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

TNR’s Greg Sargent takes a critical look at the day’s political news and the stories leading NewRepublic.com, and speaks to leading journali...

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May 15, 2026

Trump’s GOP Allies Admit He’s Toxic as New Poll Stuns Analyst: “Scary”

As Trump breaks new disapproval records amid fresh GOP panic, the author of a piece on his travails explains how unchecked corruption and so...

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May 15, 2026

ICE Charges Ahead With Building Megaprisons Despite Local Pushback

The Department of Homeland Security is converting warehouses into detention centers.

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May 15, 2026

A Very Authoritarian Semiquincentennial Celebration

How the White House’s Freedom 250 program is desecrating our remembrance of the nation’s founding.

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May 15, 2026

Nobody Asked for This Washington Post Podcast

Bezos’s new opinion section has 515 YouTube subscribers. CBS News is at historic ratings lows. The Daily Wire is shedding audience. The bill...

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May 15, 2026

Trump’s FEMA Is an Unnatural Disaster

The president has staffed the agency in charge of federal disaster response with a rotating cast of fools—and it’s showing.