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Baltimore Mayor to Trump: Don’t Send Your Troops

When Brandon Scott took office in late 2020 as one of the youngest mayors in Baltimore’s history, he pledged to reduce the number of homicides and incidents of gun violence. That year, there were 335 reported homicides in the city of roughly 600,000 people, making it one of the most dangerous cities per capita in […]


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Trump Admin Is Exploiting Regulatory Authority to Silence Dissent and Criticism

“It is all flagrantly illegal,” says Jameel Jaffer, director of the Knight First Amendment Institute.


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Conservatives Are Using Charlie Kirk’s Death to Enact Sweeping Speech Crackdown

The US has entered a new era of McCarthyism as the Trump administration equates leftist critique with “terrorism.”


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Make America Israel Again?

In a speech at last year’s Republican National Convention, then vice-presidential hopeful JD Vance shared his philosophy of national identity. “America is not just an idea,” he told the crowd. “It is a group of people with a shared history and a common future. It is, in short, a nation.” As I wrote last year, […]


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A July 4th Reflection

The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial. As the nation celebrates its 249th birthday, it’s hard not to wonder […]


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Trump and the GOP’s Ghoulish Response to the Assassinations in Minnesota

President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Tuesday that he does not plan to call Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) in the wake of this weekend’s horrific political violence, in which a man assassinated a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband and wounded another Democratic state lawmaker and his wife. “I think the governor […]


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

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

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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“No,” Trump Says, He Does Not Want to Repair Relationship with Musk

Trump has made it official: He and Elon Musk are (probably) never getting back together. In an interview with NBC News on Saturday, the president was uncharacteristically restrained when asked if he had any desire to repair the relationship with the ex-DOGE head following Musk’s meltdown on X this week. Asked if he wanted to […]


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A Christian Nationalist TheoBro Church is Coming to DC

Earlier this week, Moscow, Idaho, pastor Doug Wilson made a big announcement: In July, his church will be opening a branch in Washington, DC, just blocks away from the US Capitol building. In a blog post, Wilson, a self-proclaimed Christian nationalist, wrote that he believed that the moment was right to bring his version of […]


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Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting Great Lakes Water Supply Millions Depend On

Scientists worry they can no longer protect the public from toxic algal blooms that can kill animals and sicken people.


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Leading Catholics Condemn Trump Meme Depicting Himself as Pope

The White House has dropped a new trolling tactic—and many Catholics are not laughing. Less than two weeks after the death of Pope Francis, on Friday, the White House reposted on X a seemingly AI-generated meme that Trump shared on Truth Social of himself as the pope. In the eyes of many Catholics, Trump, who […]


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