Politics
Donald Trump’s Incompetence Is Costing Him the Country
An unpopular war, skyrocketing gas prices, unsteady financial markets, a cabinet filled with sycophants — the president’s colossal missteps have led to calamity at home and abroad
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American Greatness, American Barbarism
In its war with Iran, the White House is displaying a country that is small, mean, and ugly
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Can America’s Working Class Organize Before AI Crushes It?
Bernie Sanders discusses the state of the labor movement as it contends with the “most consequential, by far, industrial revolution in the history of the world”
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Trump Wants to Make It Harder for Vets to Work in Government
Congress won’t touch the president’s anti-veterans agenda, so he’s pivoting to rule changes at the Office of Personnel Management
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How Iranians View the War: ‘We Are All Exhausted’
The future is uncertain for Iranians caught in the middle of a conflict between forces that seem indifferent about their welfare
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Trump’s Long, Strange Relationship With Faith
What the president learned from a prosperity-gospel minister decades ago may help explain his attacks against the pope
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Tucker Carlson’s Trump Apology Is Too Little, Too Late
One of the chief advocates of the president’s most brutal nativist policies wants Americans to think he, too, was duped
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Trump Administration Can’t Get Its Story Straight on Sky-High Gas Prices
The president and his administration keep insisting that gas prices aren’t a problem, even as they admit they might remain high
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Trump Labor Secretary Resigns Amid Misconduct Scandal
Lori Chavez-DeRemer is the third Cabinet member to leave their post during Trump’s second term
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White House Tries to Appease Joe Rogan as Trump Feuds With Podcasters
The popular podcaster is maintaining a relationship with the president, even as he accuses him of betraying the people who voted for him
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Trump Wants to Make It Harder for Vets to Work in Government
Congress won’t touch the president’s anti-veterans agenda, so he’s pivoting to rule changes at the Office of Personnel Management
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How Iranians View the War: ‘We Are All Exhausted’
The future is uncertain for Iranians caught in the middle of a conflict between forces that seem indifferent about their welfare
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Trump Signs Executive Order to Expedite Testing of Psychedelics Use to Combat PTSD
After receiving a text from Joe Rogan, who attended the Oval Office order signing, president allows to FDA to research Ibogaine and other formerly "taboo" psychedelics
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The Catholics in Trump’s Inner Circle Have Nowhere to Hide
Trump's attacks on Pope Leo XIV are making J.D. Vance and others choose between their religion and their fealty to the president
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RFK Jr. Struggles to Defend Trump Before Congress: ‘He’s Very, Very Sane’
The HHS chief claims the president’s threat to eradicate Iranian civilization was a nuanced, empathetic deal-making tactic
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