Plus, Trump’s trainwreck Elon Musk interview, and more
Trump’s tax holiday for tips is bad; his tax holiday for Social Security benefits is worse. |
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Yes, inflation has been punishing. But there is a mountain of good news that media have barely reported. Here’s the real record the Democrats can run on. |
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Donald Trump sat down for a disaster of an interview with Elon Musk. Now, his team is pissed. |
Kamala Harris’s running mate defies categorization on the left-right continuum. Here’s a clearer way to understand his politics. |
By Tom Schaller, Paul Waldman |
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Join us at 3 p.m. E.T. this Wednesday, August 14, when Colin Dickey and Laura Marsh talk about the book Trump doesn’t want you to read, Dawn’s Early Light by Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation. With a foreword by J.D. Vance, Roberts’s book outlines the need for the Foundation’s Project 2025, which many claim will be the conservative policy playbook if Trump gets elected. |
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He is simultaneously arguing that the vice president is not Black enough and that she’s exploiting her race. |
His hacked campaign is warning against "doing the bidding of America’s enemies" with any potentially leaked documents—and apparently hopes we’ve forgotten that 2016 ever happened. |
Donald Trump may have mixed up two Black California politicians while trying to insult Kamala Harris. |
By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling |
As new data shows young voters running from Trump, an expert on the youth vote goes deep on the cultural causes of this shift—and why they could help Harris defeat Trump in November. |
By The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent |
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Join us on Friday, August 23 as TNR editor Michael Tomasky sits down with TNR writers Greg Sargent and Grace Segers to reflect on the Democratic National Convention and what we must do to get to the White House in November. |
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