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May 27, 2025

 

Trump Talks "Trophy Wives" but Biden’s Autopen Is the New "Her Emails"

MAGAworld’s latest fixation can be explained simply: These reprobates love to lie, and it’s become way too easy for them to get away with it.

By Michael Tomasky

 

 

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Tough Work, Tight Margins: How Cattle Branding Is Evolving in Nebraska

The population is shrinking, and the heifers just keep getting bigger. So the Burdick Ranch relies on neighbor volunteers and high school wrestlers to get the job done.

Text and photographs by Alyssa Schukar

 

Inside a Campus Crackdown Over Wokeism in France

At a small university in the city of Grenoble, an accusation of Islamophobia set off a wild kerfuffle and a media frenzy. Sound familiar?

By Adrian Daub

 

Trump’s "Golden Dome" Won’t Work—but It’ll Make Elon Musk Richer

For 40 years, missile defense has never been about keeping America safe. It’s all about the contracts.

By Joe Cirincione

 
 

House Republicans Just Touched the Third Rail

Medicaid was once a little-regarded program. It is now a policy heavyweight—and with an enrollment larger than Medicare’s, it’s very, very popular.

By Timothy Noah

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Cognitive Decline? Trump Repeatedly Fumbles in Multiple Weird Rants

Donald Trump made several gaffes throughout his speeches during the Memorial Day weekend.

By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

 

Pete Hegseth Accused of Relying on Illegal Wiretap to Clean House

The White House was left scrambling after reports that Hegseth had fired three top aides following an illegal wiretap.

By Edith Olmsted

 

Trump Tariff Fiasco Worsens as Bizarre New Ramblings to Media Backfire

As Trump offers strange new justifications for his tariffs, a reporter who covers class politics explains how he undermined his own case for them—and why the Trump-GOP’s broader agenda is awful for working people.

By The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

 
 

Where the Money Is: America’s Obscene Wealth Gap

Undoubtedly, Donald Trump is a threat to American democracy; but the bigger threat is the obscene wealth gap that allowed his rise. This event on Tuesday, June 24 will build on our special reporting and polling about the concentration of wealth in America.

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