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Dem Congresswoman Retires With Message to All Old People in Office
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Republicans Quietly Axed IRS Funding While No One Was Looking
During last week’s negotiations to avert a government shutdown, Congress quietly slashed $20 billion from the Internal Revenue Service.…
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Marianne Williamson Sets Her Sights on a New Target: The DNC
“New age guru” to some, center-left crank to others—former presidential candidate Marrianne Williamson has thrown her name into the hat…
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Big Business Caves to Trump With Record-Breaking Inaugural Donations
For example, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg have each pledged $1 million to the fund. Hedge…
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Trump’s Christmas Day Meltdown Was Deranged—Even for Him
He then took shots at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, suggesting that he’d slash the country’s taxes if they’d be oh so kind…
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Trump’s Border Czar Vows to Resurrect One of His Worst Policies
Donald Trump’s “border czar” is pledging to bring back the practice of family detention for undocumented immigrants. In an interview with…
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Elon Musk’s Biggest Fans Turn Against Him Over Immigration
Billionaire immigrant Elon Musk and his supporters are beefing over how to grow Silicon Valley. “There is a permanent shortage of…
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TV’s Year of Big Disappointments
This is, admittedly, and somewhat hyperbolically, a grim picture to paint. But I’m not writing about disappointment and the year in TV…
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How Big Pharma Is Wrecking the Inflation Reduction Act
Earlier this month, the consumer watchdog Public Citizen released a report outlining how four of the 10 drugs subject to negotiation would…
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What if Trump Does Everything He’s Promised—and the People Don’t Care?
But in most societies across history, that’s just not what voters do. Voters are thinking about a variety of different things. They vote,…
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Democracy Is No Bulwark Against Oligarchy
None of the Founders fretted as much about oligarchy as Adams; he was writing about its dangers as early as 1766, and in 1785 he urged…
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The Intolerable Life Cycle of Debt and Death
Yet debt is strangely equal opportunity. One study found that problem debt almost doubled the odds for considering suicide even…
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The Year of the Israeli Settler
Eiland likes to pose as a hardened paratrooper: a no-bullshit blusterer, ignorant of political chicanery, who is merely applying cold…
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Trump Wants to Bring Back the American Imperium
It may not surprise you that Trump mangled his facts about Panama, overstating by more than 600 percent the number of Americans who died…
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Trump Adviser Somehow Makes Greenland Threat Even Worse
In the least surprising revelation ever, Donald Trump’s adviser Corey Lewandowski said the president-elect’s dream of annexing Greenland…
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A Quick Reminder on the Trump Organization’s Tax Evasion in Panama
Donald Trump has an outstanding tax evasion case in Panama, the same country he’s just publicly accused of financial wrongdoing, according…
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MAGA Is Freaking Out Over Biden Sparing Lives of Death Row Prisoners
President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row, before Donald Trump could return to office and carry…
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Luigi Mangione’s Lawyer Rips Eric Adams for Perp Walk Photoshoot
Luigi Mangione’s lawyer slammed Mayor Eric Adams during a hearing Monday, after the embattled New York politician made public statements…
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Gaetz Report Details Shady Way He Paid Women For Sex
The House Ethics Committee report on former Representative Matt Gaetz released Monday details the downright shady ways the Florida…
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The Matt Gaetz Report Is Finally Out—and Every Bit of It Is Terrible
The long-awaited House Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz is out, and it finds that the former Florida representative did have sex with…
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How Telemedicine Benefits Became a Casualty of Congress’s Chaos
Unfortunately, he noted, the expiration of the Affordable Connectivity Program in June, which discounted broadband internet access for…
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Greenland Hits Back After Trump’s Dangerous, Asinine Threat
Musk has since tried to shift blame and downplay his role in the outcome. He’s also apparently hoping to shut down Democrats’ suggestions…