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Chuck Schumer gives a thumbs up.

Vote the Bums Out

Nine Democratic senators lent their imprimatur to Donald Trump’s plan to destroy the government. Voters must make them pay.

Editor’s Picks

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Katherine Stewart

America’s Christian Right Is Coming to the U.K.

The Christian nationalist movement has undertaken a vast worldwide expansion. Hello, London? Texas calling.

Donald Trump delivers remarks on the jobs report from the Oval Office.

The 199 Things You Can’t Say in the Trump Administration

It’s no surprise that the president deleted “climate change” from government websites. But why forbid “advocate” and “institutional”?

TNR Features

Sherrod Brown and UAW members

Democrats Must Become the Workers’ Party Again

Culture

Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago.

The Right Is Hell-Bent on Weaponizing Libel Law

A 1964 Supreme Court decision affords the press strong protections against costly defamation lawsuits. That’s why a dangerous new movement is trying to overturn it.

Palantir’s Alex Karp arrives at the Senate bipartisan AI Insight Forum in Washington, D.C. in 2023.

Alex Karp’s War for the West

In “The Technological Republic,” the Palantir CEO exhorts Silicon Valley to embrace techno-militarism in the service of furthering American global supremacy.

From the Magazine

Bob Dylan performs

How Bob Dylan Has Mirrored the Death of American Optimism

After Obama won in 2008, Dylan said it was the first time that he’d seen a sign of light. That light has since gone dark.

Man plowing a field in the early 1900s

Eric Herschthal

Racism Isn’t the Only Cause of the Racial Wealth Gap

A utopian city could be achieved, if we can only get past the bottlenecks that are preventing it from happening. A pair of tweezers reaching through a bottle's opening to build that city evokes those difficulties.

Julian E. Zelizer

An “Abundance Agenda” for Government Is the Anti-DOGE

Donald Trump Is a Fake Populist

The Daily Blast Podcast

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Fiasco for Musk as He Craters in New Polls and DOGE Cuts Lose in Court

As a judge blocks the Trump-Musk effort to fire thousands of federal workers, a close chronicler of Musk’s follies explains why the public backlash against him and Tesla matters so much—and what’s coming next.

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Trump’s Anger Spins Out of Control at Presser as Another Bad Poll Hits

With Trump seeming unusually angry in remarks to reporters, a shrewd observer of Trump-MAGA psychology plumbs the darker undercurrents of his discontent—and explains the political trap he’s landed himself in.

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Who Said It: Veep’s Jonah Ryan or JD Vance?

One is a fictional politician who everyone hates. The other is a real politician who everyone hates. Can you tell them apart?