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Ideas. Influence. Impact. TNR is a must-read if you want to know the ideas impacting politics and culture today.
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There is no precedent for anything like this. Musk is a private citizen who has not been elected to anything. He is not a federal employee; he has not been confirmed by the Senate to any office or post.
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"Against Harris, he looks old (because he is), confused (because he is), far less intelligent than she (because he is), and less genuinely patriotic (because he is)."
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"Against Harris, he looks old (because he is), confused (because he is), far less intelligent than she (because he is), and less genuinely patriotic (because he is)."
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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s editorial board endorsed Missouri Senator Josh Hawley’s Democratic challenger, Lucas Kunce, calling Hawley the “worst sitting senator in America right now.”.
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Behind all of Elon Musk’s bloviating and attention-seeking is a small man who is simply not very good at anything.
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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s editorial board endorsed Missouri Senator Josh Hawley’s Democratic challenger, Lucas Kunce, on Sunday, calling Hawley the “worst sitting senator in America right now.”.
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Finally the mainstream media is willing to say it: Elon Musk is meddling in November’s election.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene is begging the federal government to urgently “send the funds” to help the American southeast recover in the wake of Hurricane Helene, even though she herself stood in the way of emergency relief funds just last week.
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Europe’s Green Party is telling third-party candidate Jill Stein to step aside for the sake of America and the world.
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A former CIA officer asks a legitimate, and deadly serious, question: Have Russian operatives paid any Republican officials?
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Finally the mainstream media is willing to say it: Elon Musk is meddling in November’s election.
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78-Year-Old Man Running for President Won’t Release Medical Records
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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s editorial board endorsed Missouri Senator Josh Hawley’s Democratic challenger, Lucas Kunce, on Sunday, calling Hawley the “worst sitting senator in America right now.”.
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The ex-FBI informant who accused President Joe Biden and his son Hunter of netting millions of dollars in bribes from Ukrainian energy company Burisma has admitted that the whole story was a dud.
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Sotomayor cited each of her conservative colleagues in her dissent. She highlighted past arguments they had made in favor of respecting congressional intent, rather than imposing their own view on something—skewering their hypocrisy in Friday’s ruling.
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In 2016, when Clinton campaign emails were leaked, the press ran with them hot and heavy. But today, the same outlets are sitting on a Trump campaign hack. Why?.
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We chose the cover image, based on a well-known 1932 Hitler campaign poster, for a precise reason: that anyone transported back to 1932 Germany could very, very easily have explained away Herr Hitler’s excesses and been persuaded that his critics were going overboard. After all,
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This ‘sanewashing’ of Trump’s statements isn’t just poor journalism; it’s a form of misinformation that poses a threat to democracy.
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For the past week, Donald Trump has been repeating the same story about a Venezuelan gang supposedly taking over a residential building in Colorado—but everyone, from the residents to the police, say that the story is complete fiction.
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X, formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday suspended the accounts of multiple prominent journalists and left-leaning commentators and comedians, many of whom were critical of X owner Elon Musk.
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No one has damaged the Supreme Court’s reputation more than Clarence and Ginni Thomas.
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According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, 99 percent of Jared Kushner’s investment firm's funds have come from foreign sources.
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Behind all of Elon Musk’s bloviating and attention-seeking is a small man who is simply not very good at anything.
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Finally, Trump’s Alarming Mental Decline Has Become a Big Media Story
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Trump may just have exhausted the mental, physical, and emotional energy of swing voters who are simply tired of his antics and his rage.
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Elon Musk is now under fire in multiple swing states over his election interference.
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Elon Musk, a self-declared “free speech absolutist,” has been accused of suspending the account of a group organizing voters to support Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Elon Musk, a self-declared “free speech absolutist,” has been accused of suspending the account of a group organizing voters to support Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Donald Trump is upset with the media for accurately reporting that his election night victory wasn’t exactly a “landslide.”.
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The Department of Justice wants former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon to begin his prison sentence immediately.
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Clarence Thomas was in so much debt two decades ago that he tried to get Supreme Court justice salaries raised across the board. Within months, Republican billionaires began giving him extravagant gifts.
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Bill Ackman, the billionaire who helped chase Claudine Gay out of Harvard’s presidency, learned last week from Business Insider that his wife, former MIT professor Neri Oxman, has a plagiarism problem arguably worse than Gay’s. He's not taking it well.
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“Let me get this straight. You welcomed nude photos of Hunter Biden in a public hearing but you won’t welcome the testimony of Hunter Biden in a public hearing. If Hunter testified in the nude, would you then let him appear for a public hearing?”
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A former CIA officer asks a legitimate, and deadly serious, question: Have Russian operatives paid any Republican officials?
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A former CIA officer asks a legitimate, and deadly serious, question: Have Russian operatives paid any Republican officials?
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"To recognize Palestinians are human has become a flashpoint, a red line to not be crossed in Washington discourse, an invitation to be tagged as an antisemite."
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Kamala Harris has earned an eleventh-hour show of support from Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim community leaders.
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“Let me get this straight. You welcomed nude photos of Hunter Biden in a public hearing but you won’t welcome the testimony of Hunter Biden in a public hearing. If Hunter testified in the nude, would you then let him appear for a public hearing?”
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Scott Perry, who serves as the chair of the House Freedom Caucus, was “central to the planning of January 6,” according to former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. Now, there’s an effort in Pennsylvania to have Perry removed from the ballot.
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“The Nation is witnessing the determined delegitimization of both its Federal and State judiciaries and the systematic dismantling of its system of justice and Rule of Law by a single man – the former President of the United States.”.
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A former CIA officer asks a legitimate, and deadly serious, question: Have Russian operatives paid any Republican officials?
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Finally the mainstream media is willing to say it: Elon Musk is meddling in November’s election.
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Donald Trump’s campaign and the Trump Organization paid off nine witnesses called to testify in criminal cases against Trump, an explosive new report from ProPublica reveals.
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Leaked emails reveal the truth about Rasmussen Reports—and the way the Trump campaign is breaking election law.
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This is not a conspiracy. As we speak, Trump is traveling from billionaire to billionaire, with hat in hand, making explicit promises to sell his presidency.
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A former CIA officer asks a legitimate, and deadly serious, question: Have Russian operatives paid any Republican officials?
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Clarence Thomas was in so much debt two decades ago that he tried to get Supreme Court justice salaries raised across the board. Within months, Republican billionaires began giving him extravagant gifts.
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“He’ll start throwing people in jail, and I’d be at the top of the list,” said Gen. Mark Milley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff—a man not given to hyperbole, who understands how autocrats operate.
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“I am working with a number of my colleagues including Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Eric Swalwell to revive legislation. [to] determine that someone who committed insurrection is disqualified by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.”
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Republicans’ main witness in their efforts to impeach Joe Biden has already been charged with lying to the FBI. Now, he has also admitted to having ties to Russian intelligence officers.
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In 2016, when Clinton campaign emails were leaked, the press ran with them hot and heavy. But today, the same outlets are sitting on a Trump campaign hack. Why?.
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This is not a conspiracy. As we speak, Trump is traveling from billionaire to billionaire, with hat in hand, making explicit promises to sell his presidency.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which is often referred to as Elizabeth Warren’s brainchild, has recouped $17.5 billion worth of consumer money.
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The Trump town hall earned CNN no end of mockery on the day of the event. Weeks later, however, we're seeing knock-on effects in the form of staggeringly low ratings.
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One month after The Washington Post revealed that the Egyptian government may have illegally given Donald Trump $10 million in 2017, Democrats have announced they will be investigating the allegations.
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“I am working with a number of my colleagues including Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Eric Swalwell to revive legislation. [to] determine that someone who committed insurrection is disqualified by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.”
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Kamala Harris is the only candidate in the race not actively hostile to labor's interests, and Sean O'Brien is the only person left who hasn't figured that out.
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"Against Harris, he looks old (because he is), confused (because he is), far less intelligent than she (because he is), and less genuinely patriotic (because he is)."
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Trump may just have exhausted the mental, physical, and emotional energy of swing voters who are simply tired of his antics and his rage.
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Is the press doing an adequate job of analyzing Trump’s deteriorating mental state? The answer is “no.” .
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Transcript: NYT Exposes Alarming New Signs of Trump’s Mental Decline
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Military contractor Erik Prince started a private WhatsApp group for his close associates including a menagerie of right-wing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, and journalists. We got their messages. From @KenSilverstein1:.
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Are We Just Ignoring How Russia Openly Helped Trump on Election Night?
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An analysis of Jared and Ivanka’s official financial disclosures revealed that while they were working at the White House, they reported between $172 million and $640 million in outside income.
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One month after The Washington Post revealed that the Egyptian government may have illegally given Donald Trump $10 million in 2017, Democrats have announced they will be investigating the allegations.
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White supremacist and far-right political pundit Nick Fuentes shockingly revoked his support from Trump’s campaign early Friday, announcing on social media that he and his allies believed that the presidential bid is headed for a “catastrophic loss.”.
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Donald Trump wants to give immigrants “serial numbers.”.
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An analysis of Jared and Ivanka’s official financial disclosures revealed that while they were working at the White House, they reported between $172 million and $640 million in outside income.
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Donald Trump’s memory issues seem to be growing by the day.
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JD Vance Awfully Quiet After Report on How His Mom Got Health Care.
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Clarence Thomas was in so much debt two decades ago that he tried to get Supreme Court justice salaries raised across the board. Within months, Republican billionaires began giving him extravagant gifts.
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Ted Kennedy Warned Us About Samuel Alito. He Was Ignored.
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This is not a conspiracy. As we speak, Trump is traveling from billionaire to billionaire, with hat in hand, making explicit promises to sell his presidency.
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Andrés Manuel López Obrador.AMLO isn't a progressive—he's an opportunist who could endanger Mexican democracy, @paulimison writes:
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This is not calling balls and strikes, people. This is monomaniacal, steroidal judicial activism. Alito and his cohort are not on the court to interpret law. They are on the court to change society.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has already waltzed right past a pointed warning from Trump, sending tens of thousands of soldiers to the Ukrainian warfront after Trump told him not to escalate the situation.
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Scott Perry, who serves as the chair of the House Freedom Caucus, was “central to the planning of January 6,” according to former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. Now, there’s an effort in Pennsylvania to have Perry removed from the ballot.
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Mitch McConnell told a crowd of lawmakers in Louisville, Kentucky, that a Harris administration would spell certain doom for the Republican Party. From @EllieHotel_ing:
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That Biden’s speech was political served as an excuse for lazy both sides journalism, as reporters scrambled to draw equivalence between Biden’s commentary and a movement that’s currently calling in bomb threats to children’s hospitals.
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It looks like Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts had his mind made up on presidential immunity from the start, and made no effort to negotiate with the court’s liberal justices.
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A new court filing alleges that Donald Trump’s campaign has paid to bury a number of lawsuits over sexual harassment and discrimination.
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A neo-Nazi group is taking credit for creating and spreading the racist conspiracy that Haitian immigrants are killing and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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A secret network of influencers were paid big bucks to spread sexual rumors about Kamala Harris, according to a new Semafor investigation.
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Trump may just have exhausted the mental, physical, and emotional energy of swing voters who are simply tired of his antics and his rage.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which is often referred to as Elizabeth Warren’s brainchild, has recouped $17.5 billion worth of consumer money.
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A secretly recorded conversation with Roger Stone suggests that the Donald Trump adviser and confidant is implying that the judge in Trump’s classified documents case, Aileen Cannon, could be in the convicted felon and former president’s pocket.
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Bill Ackman, the billionaire who helped chase Claudine Gay out of Harvard’s presidency, learned last week from Business Insider that his wife, former MIT professor Neri Oxman, has a plagiarism problem arguably worse than Gay’s. He's not taking it well.
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This ‘sanewashing’ of Trump’s statements isn’t just poor journalism; it’s a form of misinformation that poses a threat to democracy.
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In a stunning cave to far-right anti-LGBTQ fury, Starbucks has banned Pride decorations in its stores halfway through Pride Month, the company’s workers union revealed Tuesday.
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“Let me get this straight. You welcomed nude photos of Hunter Biden in a public hearing but you won’t welcome the testimony of Hunter Biden in a public hearing. If Hunter testified in the nude, would you then let him appear for a public hearing?”
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An analysis of Jared and Ivanka’s official financial disclosures revealed that while they were working at the White House, they reported between $172 million and $640 million in outside income.
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This ‘sanewashing’ of Trump’s statements isn’t just poor journalism; it’s a form of misinformation that poses a threat to democracy.
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SCOOP: TNR has obtained J.D. Vance's foreword for the upcoming book by Project 2025 leader Kevin Roberts. Read it here. From @alex_shephard:
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Leaked emails reveal the truth about Rasmussen Reports—and the way the Trump campaign is breaking election law.
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A bill is on the table to expand the size of the court to 12 associate justices, which would match the number of justices to the number of circuit courts, thus giving each justice primary responsibility for decisions from one circuit.
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Trump is in full-blown meltdown mode, and it's all because Harris and Walz are doing what Democrats rarely do: hit back.
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Elon Musk is collecting personal data from people in swing states under the guise of helping them register to vote.
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Justin Sun, a Chinese national accused of fraud, sent Donald Trump $18 million last week.
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No, it’s not 2016: Donald Trump is once again trying to pay to keep Stormy Daniels quiet ahead of the presidential election.
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Trump’s cognitive decline has been notable for years, as he frequently rambles incoherently in a word-association whirlwind of nonsense about sharks, slurring his words, freezing—even forgetting his own son’s name.
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