When examining the impact of Friday’s court decision invalidating most of Donald Trump’s tariffs, it is important to look beyond the ruling and instead consider its implications for democracy and the rule of law.
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What Ghislaine Maxwell knows about her father Robert Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein may be the final untold chapter of two of the great scandals of our time
By mandating that federal buildings in Washington, DC reflect a “classical” style, Donald Trump is trying to shape the face of the nation’s capital.
Just how many red thumbs will fit on that electoral scale?
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Increasing air travel is erasing the industry’s efforts to reduce its climate impact. Here’s how the sector is adapting.
Are Trump’s julep days upon us?
The federal government’s decision to halt construction on a nearly completed wind farm can be traced back to Donald Trump’s main passions: Golf, saying crazy things, and hating wind turbines.
Redistricting brings out the animal in the Democrats.
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Even though Donald Trump sounds like a complete idiot when he vows that he could lower drug prices by 1,500 percent, he repeats this mathematical impossibility. The question is why. We came up with some troubling reasons.
And it’s a dirty, deadly trick.
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Areas near the airport, along floodwalls, and in nearby wetlands are subsiding because of a combination of natural and anthropogenic forces.
Ominous and vague language included in Donald Trump’s latest executive order on placing the nation’s capital under his control by utilizing armed forces makes us wonder what the endgame is.
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The rest of us no longer have the luxury of tuning out to preserve our mental health.
Donald Trump said he’d be a dictator and he acts like one. Why won’t Americans believe him?
For the first time ever, we have been forced to have frank conversations with American job applicants about the risks journalists now face.
Trump’s communication style is schoolyard-ugly. Newsom is posting in Trump’s voice to reveal the ugliness. Conservatives are falling for it again.
An authoritarian takeover isn’t some kind of game that you can sit out… because the destruction of the United States as we know it will affect you and everybody you care about.
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Two kinds of people could claim to know more about grass than the other 8 billion humans on the planet: actual grass experts (and we don’t even know who those might be) and mentally ill weirdos.
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A decades-long trail of money and kompromat that isn’t just scandal — it’s a threat to the world order and to democracy itself.
According to the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, Gaza is now officially experiencing a famine. While Israel rejects that conclusion, it will heap more international pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s regime.
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A group of scientists are investigating the possibility that marine fungi could be used to break down polyurethane.
A Nobel Prize and shades of Yalta?
Fox News played an integral part in radicalizing conservatives to the point that they turned to authoritarianism. History will judge the network harshly. But we hope a jury in the Smartmatic defamation case will do so first.
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Donald Trump thinks that museums shouldn’t teach Americans about the evils of slavery and is directing his lawyers to conduct a review of them to ensure that they teach only the kind of history he approves of.
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Trump’s reach exceeds his grasp.
Also Trump and Putin’s Alaska Adventure, and RFK Jr Backs Off
Donald Trump on Monday revealed a wholly unconstitutional plan to rig the 2026 midterms by eliminating mail-in voting.
People just joining the fight now or still on the sidelines need to see us work.
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An explosive mix is brewing in Washington, DC.
Whether the goal is to rough up liberals, hunt down brown people, or help Donald Trump obscure his relationship with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Republican governors are glad to dispatch troops to help the president occupy the nation’s capital.
Donald Trump is declaring imaginary emergencies to amass more and more power. Occupying Washington, DC, is just the latest example.
Trump flew to Alaska for a three-hour meeting with Putin to discuss the Ukraine war. What else did the two old buddies discuss on the sly?
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Do we dare to dust off that old moral lens?
During their Alaska summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin once again played Donald Trump like a fiddle.
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Russia’s brief democratic promise died when Putin chose autocracy over capitalism. A chilling preview of what could happen in America today.
Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday night tried to usurp the leadership of Washington, DC’s police department. However, her counterpart in the District of Columbia swiftly reacted and stated that her order is illegal and should be ignored.
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