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Neil Gorsuch’s Lonely Quest to Fix Indian Law

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Matt Ford

Transcript: Marjorie Taylor Greene Drops Epstein Bomb as Trump Spirals

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Fresh Epstein Bombshell Should Unnerve Trump

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

The Shutdown’s Over. Trump May Still Cut Food Stamps.

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Melody Schreiber

The Broadway Allure of Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon

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Adam Nayman

The Shocking Truth About Gen Z Voters Is That They’re Pretty Great

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Adam Bonica, Jake Grumbach

Trump Plans Lavish Dinner for Saudi Crown Prince Investing in Kushner

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Hafiz Rashid

Transcript: Trump Press Sec Epstein Spin Implodes as Damning Info Hits

Transcript: Trump Press Sec Epstein Spin Implodes as Damning Info Hits

T he following is a lightly edited transcript of the November 13 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The...

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Trump Press Sec’s Epstein Spin Implodes as New Info Rattles Him Deeply

Trump Press Sec’s Epstein Spin Implodes as New Info Rattles Him Deeply

Suddenly, the Jeffrey Epstein files are back. Democrats released new emails raising fresh questions about the relationship between the sex...

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Trump Brags About Ballroom Renovations During Epstein Firestorm

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

John Fetterman Hospitalized After Heart Issue Caused Him to Fall

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Edith Olmsted

Who Said It: Border Czar Tom Homan or Bill “The Butcher” Cutting?

Who Said It: Border Czar Tom Homan or Bill “The Butcher” Cutting?

Bill “The Butcher” Cutting—Daniel Day-Lewis’s one-eyed, knife-wielding villain in Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York—shares Trump border czar Tom...

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The New Republic

Megyn Kelly Questions Whether Jeffrey Epstein Was Really a Pedophile

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump Goes After His Next Political Enemy: Eric Swalwell

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Hafiz Rashid

Zohran Mamdani’s Moral Revolution

Zohran Mamdani’s Moral Revolution

On Election Day, Democrats across the country racked up a slew of impressive victories at the polls, with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani...

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Audrey Clare Farley

How Much Worse Could the Internet Get?

How Much Worse Could the Internet Get?

This past spring, I went down to Texas to visit a dear friend. She and her partner are among the class of Americans that Kurt Vonnegut called “...

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Jacob Bacharach

Trump Team Ends Press Briefing Right as Reporters Ask About Epstein

Trump Team Ends Press Briefing Right as Reporters Ask About Epstein

The White House is frantically trying to do damage control on Donald Trump’s Epstein scandal. The president’s team rushed reporters out of the Oval...

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump’s Pressure Campaign to Block Epstein Files Is Falling Apart

Trump’s Pressure Campaign to Block Epstein Files Is Falling Apart

Now that the House discharge petition has enough signatures to force a vote on the Epstein files, even more Republicans are coming out of the...

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

BBC Apologizes to Trump but Refuses to Pay Up Like He Demanded

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump Spent Thanksgiving With Epstein—After He Was Already Elected

Trump Spent Thanksgiving With Epstein—After He Was Already Elected

Newly released emails suggest that President Donald Trump may have spent his first Thanksgiving in office accompanied by none other than Jeffrey...

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Edith Olmsted

Epstein Emailed Trump’s Now Ambassador Asking for Photos of Child

Epstein Emailed Trump’s Now Ambassador Asking for Photos of Child

One of Jeffrey Epstein’s newly released private emails implicates Tom Barrack, an old friend of President Trump and the current U.S. ambassador to...

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Hafiz Rashid

Donald Trump Is Awful. The BBC Is Great. And Yet, It Blew This One.

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Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Epstein Bragged in Email That He “Gave” His Young Girlfriend to Trump

Epstein Bragged in Email That He “Gave” His Young Girlfriend to Trump

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote in a private email that he “gave” his then 20-year-old girlfriend to President Donald Trump in 1993....

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Malcolm Ferguson

17-Year-Old Girl in Gaetz Probe Was Homeless and Trying to Save Up

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Malcolm Ferguson

Things Aren’t Looking Good for Trump’s Favorite Attorney

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Edith Olmsted

How Did Todd Blanche’s Interview With Ghislaine Maxwell Miss This?

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump Begs Lauren Boebert to Take Her Name Off Epstein Files Petition

Trump Begs Lauren Boebert to Take Her Name Off Epstein Files Petition

Donald Trump is pleading with Republicans not to release the Epstein files. The president called at least two of his congressional allies on...

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump’s Shocking Brawl With Laura Ingraham on Fox Exposes His Weakness

Trump’s Shocking Brawl With Laura Ingraham on Fox Exposes His Weakness

MAGA influencers are in a rage over President Trump’s appearance on Fox News, in which he told host Laura Ingraham that the country needs skilled...

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Greg Sargent

“I Know How Dirty Donald Is”: GOP Releases More Damning Epstein Emails

“I Know How Dirty Donald Is”: GOP Releases More Damning Epstein Emails

After House Oversight Democrats released a series of private emails from Jeffrey Epstein mentioning Donald Trump, Republicans released their own...

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump Freaks Out Over Epstein Emails in Furious Rant

Trump Freaks Out Over Epstein Emails in Furious Rant

Donald Trump is beginning to squirm under pressure as Congress pushes to release the Epstein files. Trump ranted on Truth Social Wednesday about...

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

White House Confirms Trump-Epstein Emails Are Real—and IDs Victim

White House Confirms Trump-Epstein Emails Are Real—and IDs Victim

In a desperate and misguided effort to exonerate Donald Trump, the White House is claiming that the trafficking victim mentioned in the Jeffrey...

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Hafiz Rashid

Federal Judge Orders Hundreds of ICE Detainees to Be Released

Federal Judge Orders Hundreds of ICE Detainees to Be Released

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the release of hundreds of immigrants detained in Chicago, amid the Trump administration’s reckless “Operation...

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Hafiz Rashid

Leavitt Goes on Wild Rant When Asked About Trump Cutting Off SNAP

Leavitt Goes on Wild Rant When Asked About Trump Cutting Off SNAP

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt blamed Democrats and “an unhinged judge” Wednesday while making excuses for President Donald Trump’s...

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Edith Olmsted

Inside the Hunger Crisis in America’s Last Frontier

Inside the Hunger Crisis in America’s Last Frontier

On a drizzly day in late August, RaShawn Foxglove took a mid-morning smoke break during a lull in her shift at the tribal-owned store in...

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Grace Segers

Was Trump Still Hanging Out With Epstein When He Was President?

Was Trump Still Hanging Out With Epstein When He Was President?

In a newly released email, a person invited to a private meeting with Jeffrey Epstein joked that Donald Trump might be hanging around the convicted...

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Edith Olmsted

The Sports-Betting Crisis is the Supreme Court’s Fault

The Sports-Betting Crisis is the Supreme Court’s Fault

If you want to understand how the Supreme Court has broken the American democratic process over the last two decades, there may be no better...

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Matt Ford

Transcript: Trump Wrecks His Case for Tariffs as SCOTUS Rant Backfires

Transcript: Trump Wrecks His Case for Tariffs as SCOTUS Rant Backfires

T he following is a lightly edited transcript of the November 12 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The...

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Trump Wrecks His Own Case for Tariffs as Bizarre SCOTUS Rant Backfires

Trump Wrecks His Own Case for Tariffs as Bizarre SCOTUS Rant Backfires

Signs are mounting that the Supreme Court might invalidate President Trump’s tariffs, and he’s clearly on edge about it. Trump just vented wildly...

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

The Young Voters and Minorities Who Backed Trump in 2024 Hate Him Now

The Young Voters and Minorities Who Backed Trump in 2024 Hate Him Now

You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can read a transcript here....

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Right Now With Perry Bacon

Remember the Republicans’ Rural Health Fund? It’s a Joke.

Remember the Republicans’ Rural Health Fund? It’s a Joke.

Earlier this year, as Republicans stuffed President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill with handouts to the rich and cuts to programs for the needy,...

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Monica Potts

Americans Hate AI. Will the Democrats Join Them?

Americans Hate AI. Will the Democrats Join Them?

It’s the hubris that really galls. Last week, while recording a podcast at the abundance-themed “Progress Conference,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman...

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Aaron Regunberg

Transcript: Trump’s Support Among Minority Voters Has Collapsed

Transcript: Trump’s Support Among Minority Voters Has Collapsed

This is a lightly edited transcript of the November 11 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this...

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Right Now With Perry Bacon

What Happened to Effective Altruism?

What Happened to Effective Altruism?

In 1971, the philosophy department at Oxford University was confronted with an unusual student. One of the few vegetarians on campus, Peter Singer...

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Kate Mabus

The Shocking Price of Groceries in Rural Alaska

The Shocking Price of Groceries in Rural Alaska

The village of Unalakleet, on the western coast of Alaska, is accessible only by plane, boat, or—depending on the time of year—snowmobile. Most of...

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Grace Segers, Nathaniel Wilder

Internet’s Favorite Kennedy, Jack Schlossberg, Is Running for Congress

Internet’s Favorite Kennedy, Jack Schlossberg, Is Running for Congress

Another young face is entering the Democratic arena. Jack Schlossberg, the son of Caroline Kennedy and grandson of the thirty-fifth president, is...

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Dem Senators’ Shutdown Deal Blows Up in Latest House GOP Vote

Dem Senators’ Shutdown Deal Blows Up in Latest House GOP Vote

Republicans have stripped health insurance coverage from millions of Americans, with a little help from eight liberal senators who voted to end the...

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Says There Are No Talented People in U.S.—and MAGA Is Livid

Trump Says There Are No Talented People in U.S.—and MAGA Is Livid

In spite of the Trump administration’s aggressive anti-immigration agenda, the president actually believes that the United States doesn’t have the...

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Judge Aileen Cannon Is Back—and Poised to Do More Damage for Trump

Judge Aileen Cannon Is Back—and Poised to Do More Damage for Trump

The Department of Justice is teeing up a sprawling conspiracy investigation into Donald Trump’s perceived political enemies, which will be sent to...

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Edith Olmsted

Trump’s Boat Strikes Have Cost U.S. Another Crucial Intelligence Deal

Trump’s Boat Strikes Have Cost U.S. Another Crucial Intelligence Deal

President Donald Trump’s extrajudicial military strikes have cost the United States yet another intelligence ally. Colombian President Gustavo...

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Edith Olmsted

Trump Asks Syrian President How Many Wives He Has in Bizarre Exchange

Trump Asks Syrian President How Many Wives He Has in Bizarre Exchange

Donald Trump welcomed Syrian President Ahmad Al Sharaa to the White House Monday, but couldn’t help making the meeting awkward. In their meeting,...

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Hafiz Rashid