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April 5, 2025
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April 5, 2025
It’s been quite a week.
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April 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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March 27, 2025
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March 27, 2025
Today, Wired reported that it had found four more Venmo accounts associated with the Trump administration officials who participated in the now-infamous Signal chat about a planned military attack on ...
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March 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Welcome to Lincoln Square!
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Welcome to Lincoln Square!
Now let's kick some authoritarian *ss.
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March 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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February 22, 2025
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February 22, 2025
Last night’s Friday Night News Dump was a doozy: Trump has purged the country’s military leadership.
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February 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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February 21, 2025
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February 21, 2025
In an appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) yesterday, billionaire Elon Musk seemed to be having difficulty speaking.
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February 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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More Good News For Us That’s Bad For Trump
Onward.
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February 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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February 12, 2025
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February 12, 2025
Yesterday afternoon, in a bizarre performance, President Donald Trump hosted reporters in the Oval Office, the formal working space of the President of the United States.
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February 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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February 11, 2025
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February 11, 2025
On February 12, 1809, Nancy Hanks Lincoln gave birth to her second child, a son: Abraham.
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February 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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February 10, 2025
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February 10, 2025
As soon as President Donald Trump took office, his administration froze great swaths of government funding, apparently to test the theory popular with Project 2025 authors that the 1974 law forbidding...
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February 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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February 9, 2025
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February 9, 2025
On Friday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order “protecting Second Amendment rights.” The order calls for Attorney General Pam Bondi to examine all gun regulations in the U.S.
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February 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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February 8, 2025
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February 8, 2025
Yesterday the National Institutes of Health under the Trump administration announced a new policy that will dramatically change the way the United States funds medical research.
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February 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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February 5, 2025
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February 5, 2025
Five years ago, on February 5, 2020, Republican senators acquitted then-president Donald Trump in his first impeachment trial.
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February 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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February 4, 2025
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February 4, 2025
Shortly after 1:00 this morning, Vittoria Elliott, Dhruv Mehrotra, Leah Feiger, and Tim Marchman of Wired reported that, according to three of their sources, “[a] 25-year-old engineer named Marko Elez...
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February 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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February 2, 2025
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February 2, 2025
Billionaire Elon Musk’s team yesterday took control of the Treasury’s payment system, thus essentially gaining access to the checkbook with which the United States handles about $6 trillion annually a...
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February 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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February 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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February 1, 2025
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February 1, 2025
Throughout now-president Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, it was clear that his support was coming from three very different factions whose only shared ideology was a determination to destroy the federal...
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February 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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January 31, 2025
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January 31, 2025
On February 1, 1862, in the early days of the Civil War, the Atlantic Monthly published Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic,” summing up the cause of freedom for which the United States tro...
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February 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Trump’s Breaking Everything… Fast
January 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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January 28, 2025
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January 28, 2025
During the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump distanced himself from Project 2025, a plan for a second Trump term prepared by a number of right-wing institutions led by the Heritage Foundation.
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January 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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January 27, 2025
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January 27, 2025
Yesterday, President Donald Trump began a trade war with Colombia after that country’s president refused to permit two U.S.
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January 28, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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January 26, 2025
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January 26, 2025
On January 27, 1838, Abraham Lincoln rose before the Young Men’s Lyceum in Springfield, Illinois, to make a speech.
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January 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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January 25, 2025
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January 25, 2025
We have all earned a break for this week, but as some of you have heard me say, I write these letters with an eye to what a graduate student will need to know in 150 years.
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January 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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January 24, 2025
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January 24, 2025
“NUTS!”
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January 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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January 23, 2025
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January 23, 2025
Last night, in an interview with host Sean Hannity on the Fox News Channel, President Donald Trump tried to explain away his blanket pardons for the January 6 rioters, calling the instances of violenc...
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January 24, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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January 22, 2025
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January 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM