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May 1, 2025

 

Trump’s Recession Has Begun

It’s already in Seattle. It will now travel east.

By Timothy Noah

 

RSVP Now: Resisting the Authoritarian Takeover

On May 14, TNR’s editor, Michael Tomasky, and staff writers Matt Ford, Timothy Noah, Tori Otten, and Greg Sargent will host the next in our series America in Crisis, live and livestreamed from the Atlas Performing Arts Center in D.C.

 

With the new administration in place, this event will bring together influential political commentators with TNR’s most engaged readers to explore what we can do to fight back against Trump’s antidemocratic rampage.

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Missouri’s New Fight to Roll Back Abortion Age Restrictions

An abortion-support text line is challenging two Missouri laws that limit young people’s access to abortion. Why have other reproductive rights groups been so reluctant to make similar challenges?

By Melissa Gira Grant

 

"Just Say Yes": Trump Demands Media Abandon Reality for His Version

The interview moment that perfectly encapsulates Trump’s relationship with truth and expectations of media compliance.

By Parker Molloy

 

A Daughter’s Reckoning With the Indian Boarding School System

Mary Annette Pember’s mother​ attended an Indian residential school through the eighth grade. It forever changed her—and her children.

By Kristen Martin

 

In 100 Days, Trump Has Invented Something New: Clown-Show Fascism

The Trump administration is a serious threat to democracy. They’re also laughably incompetent. But the result is no laughing matter.

By Michael Tomasky

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WTF Is RFK Jr. Even Talking About With This New Measles Vaccine Claim?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushed a new MMR vaccine conspiracy that’s so fake, it’s ridiculous.

By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

 

Elon Musk Melts Down Over Report Tesla Is Looking to Boot Him

Elon Musk’s relationship with Donald Trump has tanked the electric vehicle brand.

By Edith Olmsted

 
 

Exiling Americans? This Isn’t Legal. It’s Not Even Close.

Trump is openly floating the idea of banishing "homegrowns" to Salvadoran prisons, with zero legal basis. This isn’t "deportation." It’s the kind of fascist lunacy that should be laughed out of the room—except his administration is actually considering it.

 

Will you help us continue to expose this authoritarian madness?

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Trump Fumbles When Asked Why He Blamed Biden for Bad Economy

And yet Donald Trump took credit for the economy while Joe Biden was still in office.

By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

 

Trump Rages Wildly Over Humiliating GDP Data as Aides Soothe His Fury

As Trump seethes over the embarrassing news that the economy contracted, the author of a piece about his worsening popularity explains why his aides’ penchant for abject sycophancy is working against him.

By The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

 
 

World Voices Festival: 80+ authors. 4 days. 2 cities. 1 world.

PEN America’s World Voices Festival is an international celebration of literature and storytelling featuring more than 80 writers from 30 countries, including Ava Duvernay, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Rana Ayyub, Jennifer Egan, Patricia Evangelista, M. Gessen, and Ali Hazelwood.

 

Join us in New York City and Los Angeles from April 30 to May 3. 

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