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Jeffrey Goldberg on Signalgate, Pete Hegseth, and the Risk of WWIII

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In March, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, glanced at his phone and couldn’t believe what he was seeing. He’d been inadvertently included in a secret chat on Signal among the Trump administration’s national security team about imminent military strikes in Yemen. The Signal chat leaks—which inevitably became known as “Signalgate”—called into question President Donald Trump’s […]

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Even Sky-High Income Tax Rates Won’t Stop the Relentless Rise of the Richest

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Will Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” as critics contend, be a massive giveaway to the rich? Absolutely, when you tally it up. Yet the bill’s provisions, while devastating to the nation’s poorest, represent only modest gains for the majority of affluent families. Consider the merely rich—the top-earning 10 percent of households. The Congressional Budget […]

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Senate Version of “Beautiful” Bill Will “Kill” America’s Clean Energy Sector, Experts Say

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The Senate version of President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” unveiled to the public at Midnight on Friday, went even further than the House version in its hostility toward the nation’s burgeoning renewable energy sector. The House version merely seeks to end the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) subsidies for wind and solar development enacted […]

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Democrats Force Reading of GOP’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” After Key Senate Vote

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Democrats are hoping to draw out the bill’s passage while highlighting provisions expected to harm US families.

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Elon Musk Rips Into Trump’s “Utterly Insane” Tax Bill Again

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After a brief interlude, Elon Musk on Saturday resumed his public wrestling match with President Donald Trump, ripping into the president’s domestic policy bill as “utterly insane and destructive” just as the Senate met to vote on a key procedural step to pass the “big beautiful bill.” “The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions […]

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GOP and Fetterman Block Senate War Powers Resolution Opposing US Attacks on Iran

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“It is beyond absurd that we continue to finance Israel’s wars,” said Bernie Sanders on the Senate floor.

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Democrats in Congress Decry Trump’s Iran Strikes as Unconstitutional

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On Saturday night, President Donald Trump announced to the world that the US carried out what he called “massive precision strikes” on three nuclear facilities in Iran. The announcement put an end to over a week of speculation about whether Trump would join Israel’s offensive; just Wednesday, Trump told reporters, “Nobody knows what I’m going […]

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Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Will Fund His Failed Border Wall

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Tucked into Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful” spending bill—which passed in the House last month, and promises major cuts to Medicaid—is a provision to spend $46.5 billion in taxpayer dollars on building his long-promised wall along the US-Mexico border. The White House says that the funding will provide an additional 701 miles of primary wall and 900 […]

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“A Direct Attack on Women”: Lawmakers Demand Labor Secretary Preserve the Women’s Bureau

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Democratic lawmakers are demanding Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer preserve the Women’s Bureau following recent reporting from Mother Jones that the Trump administration is seeking to eliminate the 105-year-old, congressionally mandated office charged with supporting women in the workforce. On Monday afternoon, 34 members of the Democratic Women’s Caucus sent Chavez-DeRemer a letter demanding the labor […]

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Hodl Be Thy Name: My Adventures With Bitcoin’s True Believers

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I was told there would be a diamond-encrusted steak. One hot May morning in Las Vegas, I was wandering through the art gallery section of the cavernous convention hall at The Venetian Resort’s hotel and casino—where 35,000 crypto enthusiasts were gathered for the seventh annual Bitcoin conference—in search of Rare, by artist Maxfield Mellenbruch. He […]

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Hodl Be Thy Name: My Adventures With Bitcoin’s True Believers

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I was told there would be a diamond-encrusted steak. One hot May morning in Las Vegas, I was wandering through the art gallery section of the cavernous convention hall at The Venetian Resort’s hotel and casino—where 35,000 crypto enthusiasts were gathered for the seventh annual Bitcoin conference—in search of Rare, by artist Maxfield Mellenbruch. He […]

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Rand Paul Says He’s “Not a Big Fan” of Donald Trump’s Military Parade

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Many Republicans quietly but noticeably skipped Trump’s military-slash-birthday parade on Saturday. According to a survey Politico did earlier this week of 50 congressional Republicans, only seven said they planned to stay in Washington, DC, for the weekend to attend the festivities. One Republican—Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)—was more direct about his opposition to the event. “I […]

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