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Friday

March 14, 2025

 

Trump’s Plutocratic Pals Are the Nation’s Biggest Cowards

The sight of the president setting fire to the portfolios of his pet oligarchs offers us all another reason to not be fabulously rich.

By Timothy Noah

 

Tell Idaho's Governor: End the wolf hunts

Sponsored by Environmental Action

Hundreds of wolves are being slaughtered across Idaho. Wolf pups are even being hunted down and killed in their dens, some of them too young to have even taken their first steps.

Add your name: Idaho’s wolves deserve protection
 

RFK Jr Is Running Away From the One Thing He’s Ever Been Right About

Microplastics really are a public health emergency. But instead of talking about his signature issue, he’s babbling about irrelevant moral panics and being dangerously vague about a measles outbreak.

By Liza Featherstone

 

In Honor of Kevin Drum: TNR Friday Cat Blogging

The pioneering liberal blogger was widely known for celebrating his cats every Friday. Today, in his honor, we do the same.

By The New Republic Staff

 

Trump’s EPA Head Has Learned One Terrible Lesson From Elon Musk

Lee Zeldin is taking a page out of the DOGE leader’s warped communications playbook.

By Heather Souvaine Horn

 

Next Week: Women to Watch

Join us for an exclusive livestream on Thursday, March 20, when TNR staff writer Grace Segers sits down with some of the women making waves in American politics today—U.S. Representative Sarah McBride, president and CEO of Democracy Forward Skye Perryman, and president of Reproductive Freedom for All Mini Timmaraju. The discussion will cover breaking barriers and ensuring all Americans’ voices are heard in the fight for our democratic and human rights. 

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Tulsi Gabbard Clamps Down on Leaks to Media With Unhinged Threat

Gabbard doesn’t want there to be any more leaks.

By Edith Olmsted

 

Up and Down With Bob

How Dylan has mirrored the death of American optimism

By Win McCormack

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Preparing for the Dark Days of a Trump Presidency

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Democrats Push AOC to Take Schumer’s Seat After Shutdown Surrender

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has managed to do the impossible: unite almost the entire left (against him).

By Hafiz Rashid

 

Fiasco for Musk as He Craters in New Polls and DOGE Cuts Lose in Court

As a judge blocks the Trump-Musk effort to fire thousands of federal workers, a close chronicler of Musk’s follies explains why the public backlash against him and Tesla matters so much—and what’s coming next.

By The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

 

 

The US: From Indispensable Nation to Undependable Nation

Sponsored by The DSR Network

Is the Trump administration’s foreign policy determined by a coin flip? The administration is getting even more erratic on a host of issues, from the war in Ukraine to tariffs on our allies. Rosa Brooks, Kori Schake, and Ed Luce join David Rothkopf to explain how the administration is destroying the US’s reputation as an indispensable nation. 

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