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The Future in Texas Is Bright and Terrifying

Get ready to hear a lot more about James Talarico. The Texas state representative won the Democratic US Senate primary on Tuesday, defeating Jasmine...

04.03.2026 4

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Downballot Democrats Are Gearing Up for “2010 in Reverse”

Democrats’ resounding victories in the New Jersey and Virginia governor’s races got most of the headlines, but the most dramatic results in last...

10.12.2025 10

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Zohran Mamdani Drags the Democratic Party Into the Future

Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City on Tuesday, defeating former Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo for the second time in five months and...

05.11.2025 40

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Big Tech Helped Bankroll the East Wing Destruction

Donald Trump is finishing what the British started. Despite promises that the White House would be unaffected by the addition of a $230 million...

24.10.2025 8

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They’re Teachers, Nurses, Mennonites, and Marines. The Trump Administration Calls Them Antifa.

This Saturday’s “No Kings” protests, at thousands of sites around the country, are expected to draw huge numbers of demonstrators fed up with...

18.10.2025 9

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Donald Trump’s War on Public Health Enters a New Phase

Ever since a government shutdown first started to seem like a real possibility, President Donald Trump has been threatening to use an impasse on...

11.10.2025 8

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The Joke’s On You at the Riyadh Comedy Festival

Any writer worth a damn will tell you that writing short is often a lot harder than writing long. You have to get the pacing, the structure, and the...

01.10.2025 20

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Democratic Voters Want Their Leaders to Stop Running From Zohran Mamdani

Zohran Mamdani hadn’t been Regina Weiss’ first choice for mayor of New York City. She’d ranked city comptroller Brad Lander number-one on her...

09.09.2025 7

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Ken Paxton Is Beating John Cornyn…In a Race to the Bottom

Ken Paxton’s path to becoming one of the conservative movement’s most powerful lawyers is littered with the sort of obstacles that might have...

14.08.2025 10

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“It’s Not Just a Texas Problem. It’s an American Problem.”

A lot of people want to get a hold of James Talarico these days. The 36-year-old Texas state representative and seminary student is a rising...

08.08.2025 9

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Texas Is Moving Forward With Its Radical Redistricting Plan

Texas is on its way to gerrymandering its own gerrymander. On Saturday, Republicans on the state house of representatives’ redistricting committee...

02.08.2025 7

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We’re Officially in Donald Trump’s Mad King Era

This month’s jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics was a bit of a bummer. The nonpartisan federal agency announced Friday morning that its...

02.08.2025 6

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Republican Con Artist From Queens Reports to Prison

Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) reported to federal prison on Friday, after pleading guilty in 2024 to identity theft and wire fraud, stemming, in...

25.07.2025 9

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The Club World Cup Was a Showcase for Donald Trump’s America

In an administration beset by self-inflicted chaos and personal feuds, there has been one gleaming constant at President Donald Trump’s side for...

15.07.2025 9

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It Never Stopped Being Birtherism

Let’s start with the proposition that you should not have to know who Andy Ogles is. It often seems like Andy Ogles doesn’t know who he really is,...

02.07.2025 9

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“He Won”: Andrew Cuomo Acknowledges Zohran Mamdani’s Stunning Primary Victory

It would be an understatement to say that Zohran Mamdani was a bit of an unknown when he began his campaign for mayor of New York City. As recently as...

25.06.2025 6

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The Bipartisan Billionaires Behind Andrew Cuomo’s Comeback

For a couple weeks, I’ve been getting negative campaign mailers for a New York City council district I don’t live in. I’m not really sure why....

24.06.2025 10

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State Department Cables Reveal the Harrowing Consequences of Elon Musk’s USAID Demolition

Elon Musk is trying to rewrite the history of his four-month tenure in Washington. As the billionaire founder of Tesla and Space X returns to the...

04.06.2025 9

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Mistakes Were Made. And Made. And Made Again.

What will you remember about Donald Trump’s second first 100 days? Probably the cruelty and arrogance of the people in charge, and the fecklessness...

29.04.2025 9

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How a Small African Nation Scrambled to Appease Trump on Tariffs

President Donald Trump has not been particularly kind to the small African nation of Lesotho. His administration’s dismantling of the United States...

10.04.2025 9

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You Can Stop Asking Where the Mass Opposition Is. It’s Everywhere.

It is a cliche to begin a story about a rally with a quote from a funny sign, but one small piece of floppy brown cardboard floating down 40th Street...

06.04.2025 10

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Elon Musk Can’t Take the Heat

Elon Musk has a simple diagnosis of what’s ailing America: It’s being destroyed by empathy. In a long interview with Joe Rogan, in numerous...

02.04.2025 7

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He Sued to Block a Biden Vaccine Mandate. Now He’s Helping Dismantle USAID.

When workers at the United States Agency for International Development got an email earlier this month informing them they were soon to be put on...

22.02.2025 7

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Everything Elon Musk Touches Is a Conflict of Interest

In early February, President Donald Trump threatened to cut off “all future funding” to South Africa, alleging that the government was “treating...

11.02.2025 6

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Ro Khanna’s DOGE Dream Is Dead

When Donald Trump formally announced that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would be chairing a newly created Department of Government Efficiency in...

07.02.2025 8

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Donald Trump and the Return of Ransom-Note Politics

The foundational myth of Donald Trump is that everything is a deal. “Deals are my art form,” he wrote in—of course—The Art of the Deal....

24.01.2025 10

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Actually, the 14th Amendment Still Exists

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday declaring that the federal government would no longer recognize the US-born children of...

21.01.2025 10

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The Stagecraft That Ushered in the Trump Oligarchy

You could learn most of what you needed to know about the tone and tenor of Donald Trump’s second inauguration by the people who showed up to watch...

21.01.2025 10

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What the History of American Expansion Can Tell Us About Trump’s Threats

The president-elect—who pushed for an invasion of Mexico during his first term—has spent the month leading up to next week’s inauguration...

15.01.2025 10

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Monster of 2024: Joe Biden

Mother Jones illustration; Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the...

26.12.2024 9

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Monster of 2024: Cars, Again

Mother Jones illustration; Barry Williams/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service/Getty The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the...

20.12.2024 10

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