Free admission to our national parks on MLK’s birthday has been canceled. Free admission on Trump’s birthday has replaced it.
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Democratic Wave or Republican Swamp
Can Trump revulsion and voter mobilization overcome voter suppression?
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Trump’s Self-Imposed Economic Trap
Even if he gains control of the Fed, monetary policy can only do so much—and Trump rejects other policies that could cut the high cost of living and improve growth.
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Jeff Bezos’s Very Own Editorial Page
The Washington Post’s new editorialists have turned the page over to screeds defending not just laissez-faire capitalism but Bezos himself.
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Former Economist Larry Summers
The American Economic Association banned him for life. Given how wrong Summers has been in every major area of policy advice, why did his public disgrace require the Epstein files rather than a reckoning with his serial failures as an economist?
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‘War Department’ Mission: Saving Secretary Hegseth
‘The buck stops there, not here’ tradition of exonerating higher-ups at the expense of those further down the chain of command is well established when it comes to war crimes.
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Marco Rubio’s Sales Pitch: War in Venezuela
Right-wing exiles in South Florida want regime change. Rubio is selling it with a false narrative about drug trafficking.
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Dance of the Dictators
To the extent that he thinks strategically all, Trump’s strategy is all about what grift he can grab for himself and his family from foreign policy deals.
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To Win Radical Success, Mamdani Understands, Is to Know When and Where to Compromise
Pragmatism is required to build a social democratic New York.
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Putin, Trump, and the Inept New York Times
How could the Times so totally bungle the story of Russia’s latest peace plan and Trump’s capitulation?