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Trump Humiliated by Fox Reporter Who Tells Him Protests Are Spreading
Donald Trump ordered 700 Marines to Los Angeles, and the defense secretary can’t explain what authority enabled him to do so.In a terse exchange with Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin...
Trump Responds After Rand Paul Calls Out Revoked White House Invite
In an instance of exceptional depravity, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a pregnant U.S. citizen just days before her due date, NBC News reported Tuesday.Cary López Alvarado was...
Trump Launches $5 Million Gold Card on Fakest Looking Website
In an instance of exceptional depravity, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a pregnant U.S. citizen just days before her due date, NBC News reported Tuesday.Cary López Alvarado was...
Transcript: Trump Press Sec Seethes at Journos amid Sudden Poll Slide
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 12 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 the DSR...
How Trump’s Tariffs Promote Hate at Home
Others, like one in the San Francisco Examiner from April 27, 1982, complained that “Japanese scoff at U.S. complaints of unfair trade practices,” arguing that Japan was unjustly taking...
The Symbolic Power of Burning Waymo Robotaxis
Thousands of National Guard troops are now deployed on the streets of America’s second-largest city, armed with rubber bullets, tear gas, and automatic weapons. They’re officially tasked with protecting...
Unearthing the Deep Fascist Roots of the Unite the Right Rally
Baker isn’t caught in this rhetorical (or maybe emotional) trap, but she’s intimately acquainted with its distinct Virginian manifestation. All over the country, Americans tell themselves romantic stories about...
Trump Press Sec Seethes at Journos as Harsh New Poll Shows Him Tanking
News organizations have been credulously amplifying the White House’s spin that sending troops into Los Angeles is great politics for President Trump. But the evidence isn’t cooperating. On Tuesday,...
Poll: Americans Really, Really Hate Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill
A new Quinippiac poll shows that a majority of Americans are opposed to Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, confirming public aversion to a budget bill expected to add...
Trump’s Pick for F.A.A. Leader Is Grilled Over Views on Pilot Training and Safety
Bryan Bedford, President Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Aviation Administration, refused on Wednesday to commit to holding all commercial pilots to the same federal training requirements, unnerving Democrats...
Washington Post Names Adam O’Neal as Opinion Editor
The Washington Post said Wednesday that it had hired Adam O’Neal, a correspondent from The Economist, to be its next opinion editor.Mr. O’Neal will be charged with carrying out...
Trump Treasury Secretary Suddenly Backtracks on Major Tariff Deadline
In an instance of exceptional depravity, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a pregnant U.S. citizen just days before her due date, NBC News reported Tuesday.Cary López Alvarado was...