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MTG Will Supervise Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy

Nobody much knows how to deal with the Department of Government Efficiency, whose DOGE acronym is based on a cryptocurrency-adjacent meme. Donald...

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Don’t Worry: MTG Will Supervise Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy

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The Unlikely Reason RFK Jr. Could Be Rejected by the Senate

Donald Trump’s shocking nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head up the vast Department of Health and Human Services led to a lot of concerns...

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Is the Danger of Trump Using Recess Appointments to Stock His Cabinet Over?

Fresh from the narrow presidential election victory that he has insisted on calling an “unprecedented and powerful mandate,” Donald Trump’s very...

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The Unlikely Reason RFK Jr. Could Be Rejected by the Senate

Donald Trump’s shocking nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head up the vast Department of Health and Human Services led to a lot of concerns...

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Ranked-Choice Voting Loses Everywhere Except Alaska

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Trump Has Lost His Popular-Vote Majority

On Election Night, with characteristic modesty, Donald Trump claimed an “unprecedented and powerful mandate.” He certainly won the contest...

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Trump Has Lost His Popular-Vote Majority

On Election Night, with characteristic modesty, Donald Trump claimed an “unprecedented and powerful mandate.” He certainly won the contest...

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How Poor People Will Pay for Trump’s Agenda

There are quite a few categories of people who have reason to fear Donald Trump’s policy agenda for 2025, which he can be expected to pursue via a...

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How Poor People Will Pay for Trump’s Agenda

There are quite a few categories of people who have reason to fear Donald Trump’s policy agenda for 2025, which he can be expected to pursue via a...

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What If Trump Refuses to Withdraw Doomed Nominees?

There are a lot of theories floating around as to President-elect Donald Trump’s motives in putting forward a raft of highly objectionable Cabinet...

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What If Trump Refuses to Withdraw Doomed Nominees?

There are a lot of theories floating around as to President-elect Donald Trump’s motives in putting forward a raft of highly objectionable Cabinet...

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What Happened to the Minor Party Presidential Candidacies?

For a good part of the 2024 election cycle, one of the major continuing narratives was the loathing Americans had for the two major political parties....

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Trump Is Blowing Up Washington. Will Republicans Let Him?

Every new presidential administration must choose between cautious measures to consolidate political power and politically risky steps to accomplish...

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Trump Is Blowing Up Washington. Will Republicans Let Him?

Every new presidential administration must choose between cautious measures to consolidate political power and politically risky steps to accomplish...

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Trump’s Clown-Car Cabinet Is Headed for the New Republican Senate Leader

When Republican members of the Senate gathered in Washington this week to name their leadership to run the chamber next year, there were some...

14.11.2024 10

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Trump Is in Danger of Blowing His Chance at Realignment

While claiming victory on Election Night (this time, credibly), Donald Trump was unrestrained in his interpretation of what it all meant: “We had...

13.11.2024 10

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Trump Is in Danger of Blowing His Chance at a Political Realignment

While claiming victory on Election Night (this time, credibly), Donald Trump was unrestrained in his interpretation of what it all meant: “We had...

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Kamala Harris Came Much Closer to Winning Than You Think

As is inevitable in any losing presidential effort, a lot of the fingers being pointed at Democratic culprits are aimed at the Harris-Walz campaign,...

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Democrats Were Crushed in 2004, Too. It Didn’t Last Long.

Democrats who are in a state of shock and grief over Donald Trump’s (and his party’s) return to power are understandably acting as though the...

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Democrats Were Crushed in 2004, Too. It Didn’t Last Long.

Democrats who are in a state of shock and grief over Donald Trump’s (and his party’s) return to power are understandably acting as though the...

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Tiny GOP Congressional Majorities Are Perilous for Trump

Donald Trump is feeling his 78-year-old oats and MAGA activists are ready to rumble in the wake of his solid presidential win and the very likely GOP...

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Tiny GOP Congressional Majorities Are Perilous for Trump

Donald Trump is feeling his 78-year-old oats and MAGA activists are ready to rumble in the wake of his solid presidential win and the very likely GOP...

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Can a MAGA Blitzkrieg Impose Rick Scott on Senate Republicans?

Donald Trump’s MAGA movement with its scary online shock troops has long since subdued the Republican Party, and on November 5, it won a solid...

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Trump’s 2024 Win Isn’t a Repeat of 1980’s Reagan Revolution

In trying to come to grips with a surprisingly big and wide-ranging electoral victory by Donald Trump and his Republican Party on November 5, the...

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Trump’s 2024 Win Isn’t a Repeat of 1980’s Reagan Revolution

In trying to come to grips with a surprisingly big and wide-ranging electoral victory by Donald Trump and his Republican Party on November 5, the...

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Democrats Lost Because of Bad Policies, Not Bad Attitudes

To hear a lot of the post-election buzz from every direction, the Democratic Party has a terrible attitude problem. It’s full of arrogant elitists...

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Democrats Lost Because of Their Bad Policies, Not Their Bad Attitude

To hear a lot of the post-election buzz from every direction, the Democratic Party has a terrible attitude problem. It’s full of arrogant elitists...

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The Pro-Choice Ballot Winning Streak Ends

Between the reversal of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court in June of 2022 and the 2024 election, voters registered their opinions on abortion...

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The Pro-Choice Ballot Winning Streak Ends

Between the reversal of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court in June of 2022 and the 2024 election, voters registered their opinions on abortion...

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The Battle for the House Moves West

While Republicans are thrilled by Donald Trump’s solid victory in the presidential contest and delighted about their new Senate majority, the...

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What the Harris vs. Trump Polls Got Wrong

On Election Night, Donald Trump won a straightforward — if not overwhelming — victory over Kamala Harris in both the Electoral College and the...

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Americans Wanted Change and That Meant Trump

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Americans Wanted Change and That Meant Trump

People in both parties will be debating the contours of Donald Trump’s comeback presidential victory over Kamala Harris for a good while. Certainly...

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Trump Claims a Real Victory This Time

We all pretty much knew Donald Trump would claim victory on Election Night. And sure enough, he appeared to his supporters in Florida at roughly the...

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The Harris vs. Trump Races Hinges on These 3 Factors

After months of turbulence and uncertainty, Election Day is finally here. We still don’t know when the winner will be announced, just as we don’t...

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The Resurrection of Donald Trump

Win or lose (and if he loses, he will almost certainly fight like hell to deny it), the fact that Donald Trump made it to this juncture as an even bet...

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The Resurrection of Donald Trump

Win or lose (and if he loses, he will almost certainly fight like hell to deny it), the fact that Donald Trump made it to this juncture as an even bet...

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How Kamala Harris Got This Far Against Donald Trump

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Who Will Win Control of Congress? It’s Complicated

Almost lost in the frenzy of a close and immensely consequential 2024 presidential election is the battle for control of Congress — which will...

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Who Will Win Control of Congress? It’s Complicated

Almost lost in the frenzy of a close and immensely consequential 2024 presidential election is the battle for control of Congress — which will...

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When Will We Know Who Won the Election?

As we all remember, it took four days for the 2020 presidential election to be “called” by media outlets, and nearly two more months to make the...

02.11.2024 6

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Are Polls Wrong Again? Why Experts Worry About ‘Herding’

Less than a week from the deal going down, polls are showing an insanely close race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, both nationally and in the...

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Are the Polls Wrong Again? Why Experts Are Worried About ‘Herding’

Less than a week from the deal going down, polls are showing an insanely close race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, both nationally and in the...

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Helping Kamala Harris, Mike Johnson Vows to Kill Obamacare

As you probably know, we’re beginning the final week of a dead-even presidential contest between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, with...

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Final Trump vs. Harris Polls Show It’s Down to the Wire

A week before Election Day, an estimated 47 million votes have already been cast in the presidential race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump....

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Final Trump vs. Harris Polls Show It’s Down to the Wire

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Will Trump and Johnson’s ‘Little Secret’ Be Unveiled on January 6?

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Youngkin’s Virginia Voter Purge Is a Gift to Trump

In the narrative that Donald Trump has developed surrounding this and past presidential elections, the myth of noncitizen voting looms large, casting...

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Kamala Harris’s Lost Opportunity on Immigration

There’s not much question that if Kamala Harris loses this crazy-close election, it will mostly be over public unhappiness with the Biden-Harris...

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