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El Salvador Set Up Trap for Dem Senator Trying to Visit Abrego Garcia

Senator Chris Van Hollen appears to have fallen in a trap deliberately set up to stop him from visiting wrongly deported immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

By Hafiz Rashid

The May Issue Is Available Now

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Trump Has Full-Blown Tantrum Over Fed Chair’s Tariff Warning

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell had warned that Donald Trump’s pet tariffs would cause inflation to skyrocket.

By Edith Olmstead

Trump’s FCC Chief Tries to Warp News Coverage of Wrongly Deported Man

The Federal Communications Commission chief is joining Trump’s efforts to smear Kilmar Abrego Garcia, in a troubling attempt to control the media.

By Hafiz Rashid

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?

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Trump Team’s New Docs on Abrego Garcia Show How Little They Have

Donald Trump’s administration is resorting to increasingly desperate moves to justify accidentally deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador.

By Edith Olmsted

Elon Musk’s New Donations Are Disturbing Sign for the Courts

Elon Musk is trying to flip the courts in Donald Trump’s (and his own) favor.

By Marin Scotten

How the Radical Right Captured the Culture

Blame Hollywood’s "unwokening" and the extraordinary rise of right-wing podcasters on slop: intellectually bereft, emotionally sterile content that’s shaped by data and optimized for clicks.

By Ana Marie Cox

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Elon Musk Wants to Own Trump’s Pet Defense Project

Musk continues to try to buy pieces of the government.

By Marin Scotten

ICE Officers Literally Smash Car Window Open—to Arrest Wrong Man

Every detail about this ICE arrest is terrifying.

By Edith Olmsted

Trump Has Eyewateringly Corrupt Scheme to Get Rich Off Tariffs

Donald Trump has found a way to cash in on his tariffs.

By Edith Olmsted

RSVP Now: How Is Democracy Holding Up?

On April 29, Norm Eisen and Jen Rubin of The Contrarian and Michael Tomasky of The New Republic will convene leading political, legal, and media minds for a major livestreamed event—assessing the authoritarian onslaught of Trump’s first 100 days.

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