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Real Men Steal Countries: Inside Trump’s Absurd Greenland Obsession

An underdressed reporter journeys across icy, barren Greenland—and into Trump’s bored, nineteenth-century brain.

By Christopher Hooks

 

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Mike Johnson Just Wrecked Trump’s Ugly "Working-Class GOP" Scam

Donald Trump talked a good game about raising taxes on the rich. Guess who benefits from a provision buried deep within the new GOP bill?

By Greg Sargent

 

America Has Never Seen a President This Corrupt

Trump’s brazen use of the White House to advance his family businesses should be one of the biggest scandals in the country’s history.

By Alex Shephard

 
 

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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The Republican Tax Bill Screws the Working Class

Alas, if history is any guide, they’ll love it anyway.

By Timothy Noah

 

A Devastating New Exposé of Johnson & Johnson Indicts an Entire System

An investigative history of the scandal-plagued company shines a light on a health care industry riddled with corruption and criminality.

By Alexander Zaitchik

 
 

Trump Has Big Mideast Goals, and He Knows the Obstacle Is Netanyahu

Who would have guessed that the Trump-Netanyahu split would have come this fast, over this many things? It’s the biggest surprise of Trump 2.0, by far.

By Yousef Munayyer

 

Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Case Has the Supreme Court Baffled

The Trump administration’s brief against the Fourteenth Amendment is a bad one, and it naturally led to some tortured legal reasoning from his solicitor general.

By Matt Ford

 

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How Trump’s "Emergency" Powers Could Become Permanent

The president is declaring emergencies on everything from an "invasion" of immigrants to a mythical shortage of fossil fuel production. But it’s all just a ploy for him to act like a Roman emperor.

By Ross Rosenfeld

 

The Trump Administration’s Reckless Policies Will Kill Children

The administration’s "pronatalist" position is substantially at odds with a range of policy decisions that will cause kids to sicken and die.

By Matt Ford

 

Trump Writes Congress out of the Constitution—and Congress Says Fine

The question regarding the Qatari plane deal isn’t whether it’s corrupt or illegal. It’s both of those. The question is, who will stop it?

By Harry Litman

 
 
 

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