Cognitive Decline? Trump Appears to Have No Clue What’s Happening
Donald Trump claimed that his party was “working nicely together,” just hours after House Republicans’ infighting forced them to delay a vote on a multitrillion-dollar budget bill.“Great News! ‘The...
View ArticleWhite House Censoring Embarrassing Pool Reports of Trump
In its latest attack on the free press, the Trump administration is withholding pool reports that make it look bad.Two recent dispatches from White House pool reporters, a rotating group of reporters...
View ArticleTrump Humiliated With Montage of Headlines About Caving on Tariffs
The public reaction to Donald Trump’s tariff reversal has not been good.CNN’s John Berman decided to spew off a list of headlines Thursday morning related to the market frenzy while introducing...
View ArticleTrump’s Dumbest Order Is Hiding His Most Dangerous Rule Change Yet
Buried within Donald Trump’s executive order “undoing the left’s war on water pressure” was a shady phrase to help the president fast-track his deregulatory crusade.In a section of the order signed...
View ArticleElon Musk’s DOGE Gives Tesla Massive Helping Hand With Newest Purge
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency fired car safety experts in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration who directly regulated Tesla.The Financial Times reports that DOGE fired...
View ArticleTrump’s Latest Executive Order Lays Bare His Authoritarian Ambitions
The highest form of freedom in a democracy isn’t just the right to vote or protest—it’s the right to speak truth to power. To call out corruption. To challenge lies. To stand firm when the powerful...
View ArticleAOC Calls Out Suspicious Stock Trades in Congress Amid Tariff Fiasco
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other Democrats are accusing Donald Trump and his administration of manipulating the market to their benefit. Just days after Trump announced his”Liberation...
View ArticleTrump Brags About How Tariff Pause Made His Friends Even Richer
Donald Trump is openly bragging about just how much money his billionaire buddies made off of his dangerous tariff gambit. After announcing a 90-day pause Wednesday on his sweeping “reciprocal tariff”...
View ArticleTrump Caved on Tariffs. That Still May Not Stop a Recession.
Donald Trump may have reversed course on tariffs, but that doesn’t mean the economy has reversed course away from a recession.Some of the country’s largest investment firms—including JP Morgan and...
View ArticleTrump Finally Confirms True Scope of China Tariffs—Setting Up Disaster
Donald Trump’s tariff reversal Wednesday reduced duties against most countries’ imports to 10 percent—except China, which was instead being raised to a staggering 125 percent, or so he announced at the...
View ArticleTrump Dealt Huge Blow in Central Park Five Defamation Lawsuit
A federal judge on Thursday denied Donald Trump’s motion to dismiss a new defamation lawsuit from the Central Park Five.In a 20-page filing, Pennsylvania District Court Judge Wendy Beetlestone ruled...
View ArticleEggs Prices Soar to Record High as Trump Plays King
As Donald Trump enacts economic mayhem with his relentless tariff flip-flopping, eggs are still getting more expensive.The average cost of a dozen large eggs jumped 6 percent in March, now costing...
View ArticleThe Sickening Reason Trump’s Team Treats ICE Raids Like Reality TV
In recent weeks, the Trump administration has fully embraced the art of the immigration raid as reality television. They are intentionally producing devastating scenes designed to circulate on social...
View ArticleTrump Makes Startling Confession About Takeover of Panama Canal
At the White House Thursday, Secretary of State Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump admitted that U.S. troops have been deployed to the Panama Canal.“We’re taking back the canal. China’s had too much...
View ArticleFour Democrats Pass Bill Making It Harder for Married Women to Vote
Republicans, and apparently some Democrats, are still obsessed with limiting noncitizen voting, which is already illegal and exceedingly rare.The House on Wednesday passed the Safeguard American Voter...
View ArticleMike Johnson Reveals His Disastrous Plans for Medicaid
House Republicans approved a budget Thursday, pushing Donald Trump’s dream bill closer to reality. With the budget framework in the rearview, conservatives in both chambers are now squaring away how...
View ArticleTrump’s New Theory on Autism Will Make Your Head Explode
President Donald Trump falsely suggested Thursday that autism may be caused by a “shot,” parroting his anti-vax health secretary. During a Cabinet meeting, the president discussed an increase in the...
View ArticleMarco Rubio Finally Admits Why Mahmoud Khalil Is Really Being Targeted
The Trump administration’s basis for seeking to strip pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil of his green card amounts to this: He didn’t do anything illegal, but he holds beliefs that go against “core...
View ArticleTwo Planes Just Collided. Trump Team Is Arguing With People About it.
The White House is now asking people in power to forget the evidence of their eyes and ears.Two planes bumped wings while taxiing on the runway at Reagan National Airport Thursday, marking yet another...
View ArticleTrump Is Dumb. Is Wall Street Even Dumber?
President Donald Trump’s stupidity, incompetence, and self-delusion—all of which were on full display this past week, as he single-handedly pushed the country toward economic ruin—are so profound as to...
View ArticleTrump Says He Isn’t Hosting a Birthday Parade. Local Leaders Disagree.
Donald Trump definitely isn’t spending government funds to throw himself a birthday parade, according to the White House.The administration denied Thursday that Trump was organizing a military...
View ArticleFox News Accidentally Wrecks Trump’s Tariff Spin as MAGA Panic Worsens
After President Trump’s supposed tariff “pause,” we still have a 10 percent tariff on most global imports; the trade war with China is intensifying; and markets have plunged again. Fox News figures are...
View ArticleTrump and RFK Jr. Want to Make America Poisoned Again
This weekend, The Guardian reported that the Trump administration is “quietly” planning to gut both federal and state regulations on PFAS, which are commonly known as forever chemicals. It would do...
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The Surprising History of the Ideology of Choice
The restaurant as we know it was invented in Paris around the late 1700s. Foreign visitors called the city’s restaurants the “most peculiar” and “most remarkable” things. At a traditional inn or...
View ArticleWhy Billionaire Trumpers Love This Dire Wolf Rubbish
Some of the media headlines have been breathless. Time magazine hailed “The Return of the Dire Wolf.” On the venerable news magazine’s cover, the word “Extinct” is crossed out. “This is Remus,” the...
View ArticleDemocrats Are Embracing AI for the Dumbest Possible Reason
Donald Trump wants to save the coal industry. Earlier this week, he signed a rash of executive orders to reopen shuttered coal plants, subsidize unprofitable ones, and—through legally dubious...
View ArticleTranscript: Fox Accidentally Wrecks Trump’s Spin as Tariff Panic Grows
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the April 11 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by...
View ArticleTrump’s Trade War Gets Dramatically Worse as China Hits Back
China has fired back at Donald Trump’s tariff hike with one of its own.The country raised tariff rates against the U.S. from 85 percent to 125 percent Friday morning, following Thursday’s confirmation...
View ArticleTrump Gives us All Whiplash With Threat of New Tariffs—Now on Mexico
Mere hours after the markets were slightly buoyed by a White House announcement that Donald Trump’s global tariff plan would see a 90-day pause, the president decided to reverse course and threaten...
View ArticleTrump Unveils Disgusting New Plan to Force Immigrants to Leave
Donald Trump’s administration falsely declared more than 6,300 immigrants dead in an attempt to get them to self-deport, The New York Times reported Thursday.Earlier this week, the White House added...
View ArticleGreenland Commander Fired After Email Blasting JD Vance
The U.S. military has fired yet another woman it disagrees with.Colonel Susan Meyers, the commander of the U.S. military base in Greenland, was fired after she sent an email distancing herself from JD...
View ArticleStephen Miller Wins This Week’s Stalin Prize for Totalitarian Flattery
We don’t really learn anything new about Donald Trump anymore. He’s the same old liar and buffoon he’s been for 50 years. But sometimes we relearn the stuff we already knew in ways that are so shocking...
View ArticleAlina Habba Launches Alarming Investigation Into Democratic Governor
Donald Trump’s former attorney turned interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey is threatening to prosecute the state’s governor.Alina Habba, following reports that Governor Phil Murphy has directed state...
View ArticleTrump Gets Devastating Review in Consumer Confidence Poll
As Americans navigate Donald Trump’s deranged war on global trade, consumers have never trusted him less. Consumer sentiment has plunged for the fourth month in a row, according to new data released...
View ArticleRepublican Has New Theory for Measles Outbreak—and It’s the Worst Yet
A Republican lawmaker has a new wildly racist explanation for the deadly measles outbreak. During a CNN town hall Thursday, Representative Ryan Mackenzie presented his own theory about the more than...
View ArticleHere’s How Trump Plans to Take Control of Greenland
Donald Trump’s plan to acquire Greenland is very real, and it apparently involves convincing the country to hand itself over to U.S. control.The White House National Security Council has met “several...
View ArticleTrump Is Begging China to Make a Deal Over Tariffs
Donald Trump’s administration has been begging for a call from Chinese President Xi Jinping—despite Trump’s claims that his reciprocal tariff policy sent nations scrambling to cut deals with him. But...
View ArticleManufacturing Workers Are Beyond Pissed at Trump Over Tariffs Whiplash
It turns out that Donald Trump’s erratic tariff policy is not popular with manufacturing workers.A new Washington Post poll of over 500 workers showed that 52 percent oppose the trade measures,...
View ArticleTrump Trade Rep. Fumbles Key Question on How Much Tariffs Will Cost
The Trump administration is desperate to convince Americans that Donald Trump’s trade war won’t affect their wallets.U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer took to Fox News Friday, attempting to...
View ArticleTrump DOJ Fights Judge on Returning Wrongly Deported Man
The Department of Justice offered a flimsy excuse Friday for why it couldn’t comply with an order to present plans to return the Maryland father wrongly deported to a notorious prison in El...
View ArticleTrump Brags as Even More Law Firms Crumble to His Every Whim
Five more major law firms have succumbed to President Donald Trump’s punitive threats as he continues his blatantly illegal intimidation of legal professionals. Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Allen Overy...
View ArticleTrump Has Some Potentially Deadly Cuts Planned for Weather Research
Next on the White House’s chopping block: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.The Trump administration is planning to close “all weather and climate labs and eviscerate its budget along...
View ArticleWhat the Supreme Court Got Wrong About Habeas Petitions
The recent Supreme Court ruling on President Donald Trump’s use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act nodded to the importance of due process in American jurisprudencce. In their opinion finding that the Trump...
View ArticleKaroline Leavitt Reveals Shocking Logic on Wrongly Deported Immigrant
The White House is trying to use semantics to dodge the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling that it has to help return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States from El Salvador.At a press conference...
View ArticleFive Big News Stories You Missed During Trump’s Tariffs Whiplash
While President Donald Trump threw the economy into mayhem this week with his tumultuous back-and-forth tariff scheme, plenty of chaos ensued in other realms.Here are five news stories you may have...
View ArticleUm, It Turns Out No One at the Ports Is Collecting Trump’s Tariffs
Thanks to a technical glitch, Donald Trump’s tariffs haven’t even been collected at U.S. ports.On Friday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported that an entry code in the U.S. system for American...
View ArticleTrump Scores Massive Win as Judge Rules He Can Deport Mahmoud Khalil
Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil will not be returning home to his nine-months’ pregnant wife.Assistant Chief Immigration Judge Jamee Comans ruled Friday that Khalil, a legal...
View ArticleMeasles Is Spreading, and RFK Jr. Is Praising Quacks
Last week, an 8-year-old girl became the second child and the third person to die of measles in the current outbreak. But it was Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, who...
View ArticleGretchen Whitmer Fell Into Trump’s Tariff Trap
Gretchen Whitmer came to Washington this week and, in a high-profile appearance, took herself out of the running for the 2028 Democratic Party presidential nomination. Only, she probably doesn’t know...
View ArticleTrump’s Horrifying Removal of Man in “Error” Takes an Even Darker Turn
On Thursday, the Supreme Court issued a simple directive to the U.S. government. Or it would have been simple, anyway, if President Donald Trump weren’t engaged in such rampant lawlessness. The high...
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