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Welcome to 2025. Anyone Else Got the Same Sense of Dread?

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Donald Trump’s Nonsensical War on America’s Borders

25.12.2024 30

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The ‘Never Trump’ Movement Is Dead. Long Live ‘Never Trump’

21.12.2024 10

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The Question All Trump Voters Will Have to Answer

This one goes out to all my Trump homies. To the MAGA voter, the Trump supporter, the fascist-curious, the Red Stater, the Fox News viewer, the boat...

21.11.2024 100

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I’m Still Devastated Trump Won—and What It Means for America

Trump and his pet Elon (or is it Elon and his pet Trump?) have made their way to Washington DC this morning for a series of scowly meetings with the...

14.11.2024 9

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Opinion: Beyond Kamala or Trump, This Is the One Thing We Should All Vote For

We’re almost there, folks. The presidential election is nearly upon us, and not a second too soon. We are a people on edge because, while the...

16.10.2024 80

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Opinion: Let’s Celebrate Everything Donald Trump Has Given America

I come today to praise Donald Trump, not bury him. With less than a month to go before Election Day, and with an oversized mug of tea at my side, I...

09.10.2024 10

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Opinion: JD Vance’s ‘Game of Thrones’ Makeover Turns Him Into Trump’s Slave

Who the hell debated Tim Walz last night? I understand he was introduced as “Vice-Presidential candidate JD Vance,” and I saw, on the stage, the...

02.10.2024 30

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Opinion: Let Trump’s Latest Vile Racist Lie Destroy His Presidential Dreams

25.09.2024 5

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Opinion: Michael Ian Black: Make America Sane Again—Cut Election Races to Two Months

Well, we’ve reached another electoral milestone. After two years of campaigning, fewer than 50 days now remain until Americans go to the voting...

18.09.2024 20

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Opinion: My Debate Night Mission: to Find the Good in Donald Trump

“They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats.” With that absurd and racist lie, Donald Trump lost Tuesday night’s presidential debate....

12.09.2024 60

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Opinion: Kamala Harris Is Right. Unions Are Vital—Mine Saved My Family

My wife, Martha, received a breast cancer diagnosis in 2020. I haven’t publicly discussed her cancer before, and I’m not going to do so now,...

04.09.2024 20

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Opinion: Just How Bonkers Will the Harris-Trump Debate Actually Be?

Now that the political parties have held their conventions, the next big date on the election calendar is Sept. 10, the only scheduled debate between...

28.08.2024 30

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Opinion: Lucky Doug Emhoff! First Gentleman Would Be the Dream Gig

Honey, I can’t wait for you to come back to Chicago because we’re having a great time here!”—Second Gentleman, Doug Emhoff Yeah, Kamala...

21.08.2024 7

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Michael Ian Black: Donald Trump, a Comedian? Don’t Make Me Laugh

Last January, I got into a fight with Andrew Dice Clay at a stand-up comedy club in Naples, Florida. The details of the altercation are unimportant...

14.08.2024 30

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Opinion: America, Get Ready for a Tim Walz Dose of ‘Minnesota Nice’

Have you ever gone ice fishing in Minnesota? I have, and it sucks. Head out to one of the state’s 10,000 or so lakes during the dead of winter and...

06.08.2024 9

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Opinion: Michael Ian Black: J.D. Vance’s Obsessions Are Way Creepier Than Being Childless

Having children is good. Children are the animating force of society. Whitney Houston sang all about it. Without children, we don’t have a species....

31.07.2024 40

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Opinion: Yes, the Assassination Attempt Changed Trump. It Made Him Even Worse

Well, that didn’t last long. Our former president nearly lost his life when a bullet shard of glass grazed his ear. Which isn’t to minimize the...

24.07.2024 100

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Opinion: Michael Ian Black: The Big Problem With Selling a Kinder, Gentler Donald Trump

After the horrific assassination attempt against him—and the murder of former fire chief Corey Comperatore—at his rally last Saturday, Donald...

17.07.2024 9

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Michael Ian Black: Trump’s Veep Candidates Are All Impressively Terrible

Big news out of the gold-plated rococo tower of bullshit known as Trumpworld: Donald Trump is announcing his VP selection on Monday! Yes, these are...

10.07.2024 10

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Opinion: Michael Ian Black: This Is a Biden Emergency—He Needs to Exit the Race

Last week, I made the single worst prediction of my short career as a political commentator, declaring in my weekly Daily Beast column that “My mind...

03.07.2024 10

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Opinion: Michael Ian Black: We Know the Debate Is Total Bullshit, but We’ll Watch Anyway

Let’s get one thing straight. It’s not a debate. It’s a television show featuring two old dudes bragging about themselves and putting down the...

26.06.2024 20

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Opinion: Michael Ian Black: Trump Lives ‘Rent-Free’ in Our Heads—and With Good Reason

There’s a phrase people sometimes use when they want to insult somebody—say, for example, me—who spends too much time thinking about and...

19.06.2024 10

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Opinion: Michael Ian Black: Can We Stop Acting Shocked About Alito Family Shenanigans?

I’m begging you—stop with the Alito nonsense. If you’re at all plugged-in to politics, you’ve no doubt heard at least snippets of the...

12.06.2024 7

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Opinion: Michael Ian Black: Democrats Won’t Scream ‘Rigged Trial!’ if Hunter Biden Is Found Guilty

As the first criminal trial of a former president concludes, the first criminal trial of a sitting president’s son is just getting underway. Amateur...

05.06.2024 10

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Opinion: Michael Ian Black: Screw It, Let’s Hold the 2024 Election Tomorrow

I had to swallow a little vomit-bubble yesterday morning when I read the following headline from The New York Times : “Eyeing Trump but on the...

29.05.2024 50

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Opinion: Michael Ian Black: If Trump’s Acquitted, He’ll Be an Unstoppable Terror

Now that the first Donald Trump criminal trial is reaching its end, I find myself wondering what its conclusion will mean for the upcoming...

22.05.2024 20

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Opinion: America Deserves Every Bit of This Trump Trial Depravity

15.05.2024 70

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Opinion: Michael Ian Black: Biden, Get Your Ass Out There and Make Some Headlines

Forgive my Scrantonese, but where the fuck is Joe Biden? As Donald Trump’s leathery mug fills the cable news networks day after day during his...

08.05.2024 20

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Here’s the Speech Trump Should Give at Barron’s Graduation

Now that Judge Juan Merchan has ruled that the World’s #1 Dad, Donald Trump, is permitted to skip a day of his criminal trial to attend his youngest...

01.05.2024 60

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Michael Ian Black: Trump Diapers Would Be a MAGA Phenomenon

Dear (former, best ever) President Donald Trump, We’ve had our disagreements over the years, some of them pretty bigly. But if there’s one...

24.04.2024 60

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Michael Ian Black: Trump Makes It Kind of Impossible to Be an ‘Impartial’ Juror

As the first criminal trial against a former President of the United States gets underway, the biggest question facing both sides is this: How do you...

17.04.2024 10

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Michael Ian Black: Why I Might Leave the U.S. Even if Trump Loses

Kennedy got it wrong. The real Kennedy, not the nepo baby crackpot currently rasping around trying to get Trump elected. I’m talking about his...

10.04.2024 40

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Michael Ian Black: We Should Thank Trump for Saying Horrible Things

My wife and I are on Day 3 of a weeklong cruise, and the calm waters have put me in a meditative mind. Out at sea, at the slightest remove from...

03.04.2024 6

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Michael Ian Black: Anti-Abortion Zealots Flex Their Biblical Muscles at the Supreme Court

Welp, they’re debatin’ babies up at the Supreme Court again. On Tuesday, SCOTUS heard oral arguments regarding the “morning after pill,”...

27.03.2024 20

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Michael Ian Black: Trump Going Bankrupt (Again) Is an Opportunity to Reset America

It’s hard out here for a pimp. This week, representatives for sneaker salesman Donald Trump told a New York court that the fake university founder...

20.03.2024 30

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Michael Ian Black: Trump Will Blow Up America Just Like He Blew Up the RNC

The mass deportations have begun! (Not yet at the border, but closer to D.C.) After installing prominent karaoke singer Lara Trump as co-chair of the...

13.03.2024 30

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Michael Ian Black: When Trump Rounds Up Migrants, What Will It Look Like?

Felon-in-waiting Donald J. Trump, for all intents and purposes secured the Republican presidential nomination this Super Tuesday. As such, it’s time...

06.03.2024 20

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Michael Ian Black: Donald Trump, Jr. is Triggered by Biden Having a Sex Life

We received some critical information regarding the 2024 presidential race this week: Joe Biden fuuuucks. In a widely disseminated (pun intended)...

28.02.2024 20

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Michael Ian Black: West Virginia Republicans Want to Throw Librarians in Jail

We’ve got to do something about these sexy, sexy libraries. Instead of public spaces that house books and other collections that are free of charge...

21.02.2024 8

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Michael Ian Black: Gen Z Grew Up in Complete Political Chaos and Somehow Came Out Happy

My son turns 23 next week. He was born seven months before 9/11, which means his life has traced some of the most chaotic years of American history....

14.02.2024 10

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Michael Ian Black: Kellyanne Conway Sure Looks Like She’s Auditioning to Be Trump’s Veep

Former Trump senior presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway wrote a column in The New York Times this week, entitled, “Who Should be Trump’s No....

07.02.2024 10

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Michael Ian Black: Elon Musk Makes Me Hate Myself for Loving My Tesla

As a new Daily Beast contributor, I think it’s important to be as honest with you guys up front as I possibly can be, and so I begin my first column...

31.01.2024 10

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Michael Ian Black: UFO Whistleblower David Grusch Is My Hero of 2023

There’s at least a small chance David Grusch ends up being one of the most consequential figures in history. On June 5, the former intelligence...

26.12.2023 10

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