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Who would have imagined that this week would feature Trump handling Mamdani with kid gloves and his long-time ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) with boxing gloves.
Norm Eisen
Norm Eisen
November 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Who would have imagined that this week would feature Trump handling Mamdani with kid gloves and his long-time ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) with boxing gloves.
Norm Eisen
Norm Eisen
A video by members of Congress urging that the law be followed hardly amounts to sedition. But, given Trump’s other bizarre and baseless criminal investigations, we need to take his threats seriously.
Norm Eisen
Norm Eisen
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM
A video by members of Congress urging that the law be followed hardly amounts to sedition. But, given Trump’s other bizarre and baseless criminal investigations, we need to take his threats seriously.
Norm Eisen
Norm Eisen
Donald Trump is not merely a rhetorical autocrat; he actually wants to be a dictator. But if all dimensions of our society wake up and assert peaceful, lawful, vigorous pro-democracy power in opposition, his autocratic push can be defeated and democracy reinforced.
Norm Eisen
Norm Eisen
November 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Donald Trump is not merely a rhetorical autocrat; he actually wants to be a dictator. But if all dimensions of our society wake up and assert peaceful, lawful, vigorous pro-democracy power in opposition, his autocratic push can be defeated and democracy reinforced.
Norm Eisen
Norm Eisen
The biggest divide now isn’t left vs. right. It’s highly engaged news consumers vs. passive ones.
Dan Pfeiffer
Dan Pfeiffer
November 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The biggest divide now isn’t left vs. right. It’s highly engaged news consumers vs. passive ones.
Dan Pfeiffer
Dan Pfeiffer
Chaos reigns, and US credibility in foreign affairs is nonexistent. That's what happens when you put a New York City real estate developer, Steve Witkoff, in charge of foreign affairs and have a Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who is so weak he has no influence with the president.
Robert Hubbell
Robert Hubbell
November 23, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Chaos reigns, and US credibility in foreign affairs is nonexistent. That's what happens when you put a New York City real estate developer, Steve Witkoff, in charge of foreign affairs and have a Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who is so weak he has no influence with the president.
Robert Hubbell
Robert Hubbell
On Thursday, the Trump administration “leaked” a 28-point “peace proposal” to end Russia’s war on Ukraine. The proposal read like a Russian “wish list” and included phrasing and syntax that suggested it was originally drafted in Russian.
Robert Hubbell
Robert Hubbell
November 23, 2025 at 8:45 AM
On Thursday, the Trump administration “leaked” a 28-point “peace proposal” to end Russia’s war on Ukraine. The proposal read like a Russian “wish list” and included phrasing and syntax that suggested it was originally drafted in Russian.
Robert Hubbell
Robert Hubbell
The House unanimously voted to claw back language in last week’s government funding bill that could award some GOP senators hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages for having their phone records searched as part of the January 6 investigation.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
November 23, 2025 at 8:43 AM
The House unanimously voted to claw back language in last week’s government funding bill that could award some GOP senators hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages for having their phone records searched as part of the January 6 investigation.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
A federal judge ordered some public school districts in Texas to remove Ten Commandment displays from their classroom walls by next month, a victory for families who had argued that the posters infringed on their religious freedom.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
November 23, 2025 at 8:42 AM
A federal judge ordered some public school districts in Texas to remove Ten Commandment displays from their classroom walls by next month, a victory for families who had argued that the posters infringed on their religious freedom.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
After a massive public backlash over the Coast Guard’s proposal to declassify Swastikas and nooses as hate symbols, the leader of the Coast Guard announced that the changes would not be going into effect after all. Nice job, y’all!
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
November 23, 2025 at 8:41 AM
After a massive public backlash over the Coast Guard’s proposal to declassify Swastikas and nooses as hate symbols, the leader of the Coast Guard announced that the changes would not be going into effect after all. Nice job, y’all!
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
Energy and environmental groups are suing the Trump administration! The lawsuit is a response to the cancellation of $7.6 billion in grants for clean energy projects in blue states, which the plaintiffs assert is politically motivated and violates the First and Fifth Amendments.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
November 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Energy and environmental groups are suing the Trump administration! The lawsuit is a response to the cancellation of $7.6 billion in grants for clean energy projects in blue states, which the plaintiffs assert is politically motivated and violates the First and Fifth Amendments.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
Democrats reached their largest lead in decades on the generic Congressional ballot.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
November 23, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Democrats reached their largest lead in decades on the generic Congressional ballot.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
Trump is facing pushback from his own party in Indiana as he threatens Republicans who refuse to go along with his election rigging plans.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
November 23, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Trump is facing pushback from his own party in Indiana as he threatens Republicans who refuse to go along with his election rigging plans.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has given millions of dollars in no-strings-attached gifts to tribal colleges. It’s apparently been a game-changer for them.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
November 23, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has given millions of dollars in no-strings-attached gifts to tribal colleges. It’s apparently been a game-changer for them.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
November 23, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
A report found that renewables could increase developing countries’ GDP by around 10% in 25 years.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
November 23, 2025 at 8:31 AM
A report found that renewables could increase developing countries’ GDP by around 10% in 25 years.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
In Charlotte, North Carolina, more than 30,000 students were absent from school on Monday in protest of ICE’s presence in the city and the deportations of their classmates.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
In Charlotte, North Carolina, more than 30,000 students were absent from school on Monday in protest of ICE’s presence in the city and the deportations of their classmates.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
Home Depot is on the defensive about their association with ICE as boycott calls grow louder.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
November 23, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Home Depot is on the defensive about their association with ICE as boycott calls grow louder.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
Federal prosecutors will dismiss charges against a woman shot by a Border Patrol agent in Chicago. (Yes, SHE was charged. Go figure.)
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
November 23, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Federal prosecutors will dismiss charges against a woman shot by a Border Patrol agent in Chicago. (Yes, SHE was charged. Go figure.)
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
We can never forget that people like Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Marco Rubio decided that saving a tiny percentage of the massive federal budget was more important than saving hundreds of thousands and, potentially, millions of lives.
Mary Trump
Mary Trump
November 23, 2025 at 4:18 AM
We can never forget that people like Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Marco Rubio decided that saving a tiny percentage of the massive federal budget was more important than saving hundreds of thousands and, potentially, millions of lives.
Mary Trump
Mary Trump
The combination of the defunding of U.S.A.I.D. and the chaos Rubio’s contradictory orders caused has undone two decades of progress towards helping combat poverty, hunger, and diseases like HIV.
Mary Trump
Mary Trump
November 23, 2025 at 4:18 AM
The combination of the defunding of U.S.A.I.D. and the chaos Rubio’s contradictory orders caused has undone two decades of progress towards helping combat poverty, hunger, and diseases like HIV.
Mary Trump
Mary Trump
Leaving a soft power void for adversaries like China to fill is destructive in both the short and long term, but there is a much bigger cost: since the Trump defunded U.S.A.I.D., at least 600,000 people who should still be alive are dead. 400,000 of those who’ve died are children.
Mary Trump
Mary Trump
November 23, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Leaving a soft power void for adversaries like China to fill is destructive in both the short and long term, but there is a much bigger cost: since the Trump defunded U.S.A.I.D., at least 600,000 people who should still be alive are dead. 400,000 of those who’ve died are children.
Mary Trump
Mary Trump
Trump knows his administration is growing weaker, and is running out of time, so they’re going to try to distract, overwhelm, and scare us into submission while simultaneously stuffing their pockets with as much loot as they can grab before the proverbial safe gets locked again.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
November 22, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Trump knows his administration is growing weaker, and is running out of time, so they’re going to try to distract, overwhelm, and scare us into submission while simultaneously stuffing their pockets with as much loot as they can grab before the proverbial safe gets locked again.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
Meanwhile prices on everything are rising, there are massive, horrifying ICE raids still occurring in North Carolina, and Trump hosted a butcher at the White House. Oh, and I almost forgot that the Coast Guard just announced that Swastikas and nooses aren’t hate symbols anymore.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
November 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Meanwhile prices on everything are rising, there are massive, horrifying ICE raids still occurring in North Carolina, and Trump hosted a butcher at the White House. Oh, and I almost forgot that the Coast Guard just announced that Swastikas and nooses aren’t hate symbols anymore.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
According to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 2019 report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort discussed with Russian Konstantin Kilimnik, “a ‘backdoor’ means for Russia to control eastern Ukraine.”
Heather Cox Richardson
Heather Cox Richardson
November 22, 2025 at 7:10 AM
According to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 2019 report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort discussed with Russian Konstantin Kilimnik, “a ‘backdoor’ means for Russia to control eastern Ukraine.”
Heather Cox Richardson
Heather Cox Richardson
Not only does this agreement sell out Ukraine and Europe for the benefit of Russia—which attacked Ukraine—it explicitly separates the U.S. from NATO, a long-time goal of Russia’s president Vladimir Putin.
Heather Cox Richardson
Heather Cox Richardson
November 22, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Not only does this agreement sell out Ukraine and Europe for the benefit of Russia—which attacked Ukraine—it explicitly separates the U.S. from NATO, a long-time goal of Russia’s president Vladimir Putin.
Heather Cox Richardson
Heather Cox Richardson