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April 4, 2025

Denmark Just Took Hillbilly JD Vance to the Woodshed

That was just about the worst vice presidential trip abroad ever.

By Virginia Heffernan

Tell Walmart: Don’t stock toilet paper that destroys forests

Sponsored by Environment America

The boreal forest is the largest remaining intact forest on Earth, but logging destroys a football field's worth of trees every minute – in part to make tissues and toilet paper.

Trading trees for toilet paper just doesn’t make sense.

Tell Walmart to commit to selling forest-free tissue products at its stores.

Here’s What Trump’s Tariffs Could Do to the U.S. Auto Industry

The president claims the measures will help autoworkers. But experts say that’s far from certain—and that they could tank the industry instead.

By Kate Aronoff

Palestinians Are Invisible to Mike Huckabee. To Trump, He’s Perfect.

One sentence Huckabee uttered at his confirmation hearing last week to be ambassador to Israel should disqualify him. He’ll sail through.

By Matthew Duss

Michelle Williams Blooms Late in Dying for Sex

Millennials confront their own mortality in the new FX show from the creator of New Girl.

By Phillip Maciak

Trump’s Power Grab Has Begun. Help Us Expose It.

Trump is breaking laws, purging watchdogs, and fast-tracking Project 2025—a plan to seize control and silence dissent. We’re tracking every move, but we need your support to keep going.

This fight depends on people like you stepping up. Will you help us hold the line?

Yes, I’ll help!

Trump Has Upended the Lives of Afghan Refugees

The administration’s cuts to resettlement aid and services are sowing uncertainty and fear among recent arrivals from Afghanistan, many of whom served alongside our military.

By Grace Segers

Worried About the Climate? Get Off the Couch. The Data Supports It.

Activism isn’t just the "antidote to despair." A growing body of research suggests it’s also pretty effective at changing the world.

By Heather Souvaine Horn

Trump Already Hit With Lawsuit Over Tariffs—From Unexpected Group

It appears that literally no one is happy with Donald Trump’s tariffs.

By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Forget Expensive Eggs. Here’s the "Bigger Picture" of Trump’s Misrule.

Cost-of-living issues are important, but there’s an even more critical story that’s crying out for Democrats’ attention.

By Alex Shephard

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Danish Prime Minister Dumps Cold Water on Trump’s Greenland Dreams

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told Donald Trump to back off.

By Edith Olmsted

"Horrifying": Trump’s Weird, Confused Rant to Media as Markets Tanked

As Trump’s shockingly destructive global tariffs cause the markets to crater and he rambles bizarrely about it to reporters, congressional scholar Norm Ornstein walks through how this madness can be stopped.

By The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

A Richness of Embarrassments

Sponsored by The DSR Network

It’s Liberation Day in America according to the administration, but what exactly are we being liberated from? The police state is growing, democratic institutions are being eroded, and we’re about to enter a destructive era of tariffs. What’s not to love? Rosa Brooks and Ed Luce join David Rothkopf to break down the latest.

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