Plus, the GOP’s war on retirees is just blatantly ripping seniors off, and more
Wednesday August 14, 2024 |
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As Fox personalities urge Trump to get more disciplined amid Kamala Harris’s surge, the author of a new book on the GOP explains how the Fox-Trump disinformation loop really works. |
By The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent |
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Join us at 3 p.m. E.T. today, when Colin Dickey and Laura Marsh talk about the book that has caused the Trump campaign weeks of embarrassment. Dawn’s Early Light by Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation and architect of Project 2025, outlines a disturbing and unpopular vision for the United States—which J.D. Vance endorsed in an incendiary foreword, obtained by The New Republic. |
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Democrats shouldn’t be pledging merely to save the program. They should promise to make it way more generous—and tax the rich to pay for it. |
Donald Trump is not doing well, folks. |
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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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"Parade" turns the novel upside down. |
Tim Jackson found unlikely fame by arguing that slower growth will actually make us happier—and more prosperous. |
Some financial advisers are paid per trade. They cost retirees millions. And two right-wing judges and some GOP members of Congress are totally in their pockets. |
Trump and J.D. Vance love to say the climate agenda is a job-killer. But a new report shows the opposite is true—and here’s how Harris can flip that script. |
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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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