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The Difference Between Democrats and Republicans
It is my fervent hope that we can finally put to rest the stunningly stupid and ingloriously ignorant belief that there is no difference between the two parties.
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January 26, 2026 at 1:38 AM
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A Phone in One Hand, Power in the Other
What the killing of Alex Pretti reveals about fear, force, and the future of American law
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January 26, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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Still Waiting on the Promised Land
MLK, Springsteen, and a country booing back as power demands silence
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January 19, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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January 12, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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The Weaponization of Everything
How Trump turned the DOJ, DHS, and even NATO into instruments of pressure and fear
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January 12, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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Schadenfreude in the East Room
Trump tries to sell Venezuela to oil executives, loses the room, and reminds the world why no one trusts America’s power anymore
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January 10, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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Who Gets to Decide Who’s A Domestic Terrorist?
By Andrew Spellman
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January 10, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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Forty-Seven Seconds
How a leaked ICE video exposes the gap between official narratives and what human eyes can see.
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January 9, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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A Child’s Garden of Insurrection
Inside the White House’s attempt to turn a coup into a bedtime story
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January 7, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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The Price of Politicizing Public Health
Collateral damage, broken trust, children in the crossfire of power, and a parent’s view of a public health collapse
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January 6, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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America Crossed the Rubicon in Caracas
From a false fentanyl narrative to an open promise of occupation, Trump just demolished the rules-based order, and dragged us somewhere dark.
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January 4, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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Stephen Stills
A Reason To Smile
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January 4, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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Chaos Is the Policy
Trump’s Venezuela strike, the erosion of trust, and the quiet reordering of global power
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January 3, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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SMITH’S DEPOSITION AND TRUMP’S DISABILITY
Jack Smith did not walk into his deposition like a man pleading his case.
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January 2, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
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December 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Maximal Disruption, Minimal Results
Why Elon Musk’s Washington experiment collapsed, Tesla’s sales are sagging, and hype can’t replace competence
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December 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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The Prelude, Not the Peace
Trump’s deals, global brinkmanship, and a world confusing spectacle for strategy.
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December 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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The MAGAfication of Norman Rockwell
Trump uses the artist’s work—like other cultural icons—to promote Gestapo tactics and nativist ideas.
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December 29, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Now I Have a Statute. Ho Ho Ho.
Christmas Eve with Trump, the courts, and an army of people who actually know what they are doing
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December 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Gunboats, Grocery Aisles, and Government by the Worst
How loyalty-first rule turns cruelty into policy and confusion into control
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December 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Trump’s Assault on Health Care, Seen From a Country That Does Health Care Better
Japan is a showcase for universal health care, and what we’re losing in GOP attacks on the Affordable Care Act.
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December 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Weapons of Mass Destruction - Here We Go Again
From Iraq to Venezuela
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December 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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A Few Good Memories
Rob Reiner told me he knew Trump was trouble
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December 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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When the Adults in the World Leave the Room
Australia governs, Europe braces, Ukraine resists, and America, under Trump, forgets how to think, act, or protect its own.
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December 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Jane Fonda Op-Ed: The WBD Deal Puts Hollywood, and Democracy, at Risk
What terrifies me — and should terrify anyone who cares about a free society
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December 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM