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Trump’s Big Firing Spree Is Screwing the Working Class

Trump’s Big Firing Spree Is Screwing the Working Class
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How Child Psychology Explains Trump’s Wild Tariff Feints

How Child Psychology Explains Trump’s Wild Tariff Feints
04.02.2025 40

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The Real Secret Behind Trump’s Insane Tariff Obsession

The Real Secret Behind Trump’s Insane Tariff Obsession
03.02.2025 30

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The Democrats’ Mission to Win Back the Working Class Starts Now

The Democrats’ Mission to Win Back the Working Class Starts Now
30.01.2025 9

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The Reason Why Donald Trump Shut Down His Government

The Reason Why Donald Trump Shut Down His Government
29.01.2025 30

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Even the Respectable Argument for Trump’s Tariffs Is Dead Wrong

Even the Respectable Argument for Trump’s Tariffs Is Dead Wrong
24.01.2025 3

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Meet the January 6 Cop Assaulters Our President Calls “Hostages”

Meet the January 6 Cop Assaulters Our President Calls “Hostages”
22.01.2025 20

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Donald Trump’s “Golden Age” of Corruption and Cronyism

Donald Trump’s “Golden Age” of Corruption and Cronyism
21.01.2025 10

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Inaugural Committees Are An Extortion Racket

15.01.2025 4

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The Labor Movement Just Notched Two Big Wins

10.01.2025 9

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A Better Plan Than Trump’s: Let’s Surrender to Canada!

09.01.2025 80

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Trump Is Already Caving on Tariffs

Trump is caving on tariffs, and he isn’t even president yet. I’ve argued previously that the interests of the business lobby and the rich would...

07.01.2025 10

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Medicare Advantage Is Scamming You

Donald Trump promises he will “ not cut one penny ” of Medicare, but like most elected Republicans he’s a strong proponent of Medicare...

03.01.2025 60

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Democracy Is No Bulwark Against Oligarchy

The hard lesson of 2024 is that liberals spent too much time fretting that Donald Trump would subvert democracy if he lost and not enough that...

25.12.2024 4

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Trump Wants to Bring Back the American Imperium

Something about the holiday season seems to inspire nostalgia for the American imperium—that epoch from 1898 through the first decade or so of the...

24.12.2024 10

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We’re Already Seeing Signs That Trump Is Tanking the Economy

Donald Trump’s election provides a useful occasion to examine the difference between what rich people want and what constitutes a thriving economy....

23.12.2024 40

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Elon Musk Is Already Scamming Washington

The highest-paying part-time job in human history is the position of chief executive at Tesla—or rather, it would be the highest if the legal...

20.12.2024 2

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Trump’s Plan to Turn the IRS Into a Grifter’s Paradise

Donald Trump is flooding the zone with so many terrible nominations that you may have missed that the president-elect recently picked former Rep....

06.12.2024 4

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Somehow It’s Still Legal to Pay Disabled People Less Than Minimum Wage

Joe Biden reminded us he was still president on Sunday by pardoning his son, Hunter. This was, as TNR’s Matt Ford rightly pointed out , “a...

04.12.2024 20

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The Who’s Who on Kash Patel’s Crazy Enemies List

As someday it may happen that a victim must be found I’ve got a little list—I’ve got a little list Of society’s offenders who might well be...

03.12.2024 40

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Donald Trump Is a Weakling. That’s the Problem.

The pithiest summary of Donald Trump’s last presidency was by the comedian John Mulaney. He compared it to a horse being set loose in a hospital....

26.11.2024 10

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In Defense of Morning Joe

The popular MSNBC chat show Morning Joe is the subject of a ridiculous new uproar. Last week the show’s co-hosts, Joe Scarborough and Mika...

22.11.2024 4

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Trump Is Struggling With His Treasury Pick for the Dumbest Reason

Donald Trump doesn’t seem to give his Cabinet appointments much thought , often skipping the drudgery of FBI background checks and more informal...

20.11.2024 30

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The Media’s Favorite Euphemism for Trump’s Acolytes

The mainstream press has been criticized for normalizing, or “sanewashing,” Donald Trump and his political allies. Having spent my career migrating...

18.11.2024 9

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Jail Trump for One Week

The people have spoken; Donald Trump will be our next president. But the people also spoke last May when Trump was  convicted on 34 felony counts...

14.11.2024 6

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How Trump Will Profit From the Presidency (Again)

I know what you’re thinking. How can I, a 98-pound weakling, DEREGULATE my industry or win fat GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS? But after last week’s...

12.11.2024 10

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Dump Twitter

The oligarchs won. When the markets closed November 6—the day Donald Trump was declared winner of the presidential election—the combined wealth of...

08.11.2024 30

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Harris Lost the Very Voters She Needed the Most

We live in a working-class country. More people graduate college than ever before, but, among Americans aged 25 and over, the great majority (62...

07.11.2024 5

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Trump Serves Up One Last Insult to Working-Class Voters

The working class may love Donald Trump, but Trump doesn’t love it back. This is a point I’ve tried to emphasize throughout the campaign season....

06.11.2024 10

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Why I Sort of Want Trump to Win the Popular Vote—but Not the Election

Some political experts have been speculating that Donald Trump might win the popular vote in 2024 yet lose in the Electoral College, as Hillary...

05.11.2024 3

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How Republicans Get Away With Fleecing Their Own Voters

We’re having this election on Tuesday. The way it works is that Donald Trump and Kamala Harris each tell voters what they want to do and then...

01.11.2024 4

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The Swelling Ranks of Influential Men Knuckling Under to Trump

To read Part One of this story, click here . I’ve told CEOs to engage as fast as possible because the clock is ticking.… If you’re somebody who...

29.10.2024 3

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The Influential Men Who Disdain Trump—But Won’t Endorse Harris

In his 1963 “Letter From the Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King wrote that his generation would “have to repent … not merely for the hateful...

25.10.2024 3

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Older Voters Might Save Us From Trump

Kamala Harris is crushing Donald Trump among voters aged 18 to 34, according to a new CNBC/Generation Lab poll, with 60 percent favoring Harris...

23.10.2024 2

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How the Press Memory-Holed Trump’s Pandemic Train Wreck

I’m happy as the next guy to mock Donald Trump’s increasingly addled verbiage along the campaign trail, but it’s Trump’s momentary flashes of...

21.10.2024 4

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The Terrible Poetry of Donald Trump

“I do the weave. You know what the weave is? I’ll talk about like, nine different things and they all come back brilliantly together, and it’s...

17.10.2024 4

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Would Mark Cuban Please Shut Up?

To whatever extent the 2024 election was a contest over who could raise the most money, it’s over. Kamala Harris won. Through August, the...

15.10.2024 2

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Trump Has a Sweet Deal for American Tax Dodgers Overseas

11.10.2024 3

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Harris May Finally Be Breaking Through to the Most Critical Voters

10.10.2024 10

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Will This Election Be Decided By Non-Voters?

Donald Trump polls better with people who don’t vote (especially men) than with people who do. A New York Times/Siena poll of registered voters...

03.10.2024 2

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The Dockworkers’ Strike Is a Big Test for Kamala Harris

Globalization has been a catastrophe for just about every industrial worker in America except dockworkers. People who make things no longer occupy...

02.10.2024 8

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Kamalanomics: Way Better Than Trump—But Not as Good as Biden

Assessing Kamala Harris’s  economic plan , released last week to little fanfare, in the context of her campaign against Donald Trump reminds me how...

01.10.2024 7

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Throw the Book at Visa

The Justice Department’s antitrust case against Visa, which was announced Tuesday, is best understood as an important (and, in my view, overdue)...

27.09.2024 6

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The Truth About the Federal Workforce: They’re Incredible!

24.09.2024 20

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The Teamsters President Is Out of His Depth

“We are not beholden to anyone, or any party,” Teamsters President Sean O’Brien said two months ago at the Republican National Convention....

20.09.2024 10

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How Trump and Elon Musk Teamed Up Against Worker Rights

In the early 1970s, a graffito circulated among the public toilet stalls of California that admonished: “If you voted for Nixon you can’t shit here...

19.09.2024 2

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Sorry, But We’re Not Getting a Sovereign Wealth Fund

This has not been a campaign season characterized by high-minded new approaches to economic policy, so when Donald Trump mentioned the idea of a...

16.09.2024 3

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You Are Way Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago.

At the start of Wednesday’s presidential debate, David Muir of ABC News pitched Kamala Harris a softball and Harris ducked it. Here’s the question...

12.09.2024 70

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The Federal Reserve Is Caving to the Big Banks—Again

When Kamala Harris and Donald Trump meet tonight to debate at Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center, they probably won’t be asked about a...

11.09.2024 3

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The GOP Is Playing Chicken at the Worst Possible Time (for the GOP)

When the political history of our era is written, the story line will be that the Republican Party, in its death throes , declared war on the...

10.09.2024 20

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