Trump Has Bonkers Excuse for Commerce Sec. Saying No One Died in Iran
Following the president’s example, Trump officials have taken to saying whatever comes to mind with little regard for…
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RFK Jr. Pressures CDC into Fudging Measles Death Toll
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered the new head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to remove…
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Trump Secretly Plans to Ramp Up Iran War After November Elections
President Trump is planning to escalate military action against Iran after November, as his inner circle scrambles to…
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Trump Says to Vote for Ken Paxton Even Though He’s Dumb and Ugly
President Donald Trump just let everyone know how he really feels about Ken Paxton. Speaking at a dinner at the White…
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Pioneering Feminist Gloria Steinem Passes Away at 92
Trailblazing women’s rights leader Gloria Steinem has died. She passed away peacefully in her New York City residence,…
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Trump’s Vile Campaign to Link Trans People and Political Violence
Donald Trump returned to power in large part through a campaign of scapegoating, promising to rescue his supporters…
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Nancy Lemann’s Wasted Youths
Youth may be wasted on the young, but what if the young are already wasted? The writer Nancy Lemann coined the term…
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The Legal Wreckage of the Supreme Court’s Ballroom Follies
President Donald Trump is building an illegal ballroom on the ruins of the White House’s East Wing, which he destroyed…
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Look, John Roberts Actually Did an Unambiguously Good Thing for Once!
On Monday the Supreme Court told Donald Trump he can proceed full steam ahead to construct his monstrous ballroom.…
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MAHA’s Meat Obsession Exposes the Movement’s Delusions
Meat is back. Not that it ever really went anywhere—but for a few years around the turn of the decade, the centrality…
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“Year of Murders”: Trump’s Boat Strikes Killed Hundreds of Civilians
It’s been exactly one year since the Trump administration began indiscriminately attacking small watercraft traversing…
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Who the Hell Is Paying for Republicans’ Midterm “Trump-a-Palooza”?
The first ever Republican midterm convention is being fueled by a dark-money web with a MAGA super PAC at its center.…
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Trump, 80, Totally Garbles Attempt to Brag About Tourism in U.S.
President Donald Trump appeared to short-circuit Wednesday during a meeting with travel executives in the Oval Office.…
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Trump Proposes New Name for Yet Another Body of Water
President Donald Trump wants to rename the Strait of Hormuz, which the U.S. doesn’t control, after himself. “Now that…
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The Trump Administration Is One Big Reality TV Show Now
The Trump administration is dipping its toe back in reality television. The Small Business Administration announced…
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Trump Isn’t Even Pretending Not to Rip People Off With His New Coins
President Donald Trump’s latest grift appears to be selling $1 coins for more than $2 apiece. Beginning at noon…
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The Ukraine Bill That House Dems Have No Intention of Passing
You’re reading The TNR Blue Book. Get daily scoops, strategy, and developments inside the liberal ideas factory…
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How Will Hakeem Jeffries Deal With Moderate House Turncoats?
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries was sent scrambling to get his party members in line on Tuesday after two…
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Here’s Democrats’ Plan to Fight Trump After the Midterms
Health care has emerged as the chief priority for Democrats should the party wrest control of the House and Senate this…
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Trump Kills Civilians in Iran—Then Complains People Don’t Support Him
President Donald Trump is clueless as to why the Iranian people won’t rise up against their government, oblivious to…
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Pete Hegseth Cares More About Grooming Standards Than Readiness
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is sacrificing military readiness for his conservative culture war—and he’s getting away…
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Key Senate Race Is Already Backfiring on Trump
Georgia Republicans are snubbing Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. Senate. A cadre of conservative mayors in the Peach State…
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Republicans Are Fleeing Trump’s Weird Midterms Convention
Republicans are steering clear of the upcoming GOP convention for fear that Donald Trump’s big mouth might hurt them in…
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James Comey Exposes Major Flaw in Trump’s Lawsuit Against Him
Former FBI Director James Comey may have ruined the federal government’s case against him. Comey’s attorneys argued in…
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Transcript: How Progressives Can Revive the Police Reform Movement
This is a lightly edited transcript of the September 1 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video…
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You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You…
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Trump’s Next War Is Already Underway in Latin America
This past month, the United States has quietly stepped up its military actions in South America, in operations that…
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How Jeff Bezos’s Surrender to Trump Freed Him to Dodge Labor Laws
One of the business world’s more nauseating capitulations to President Donald Trump has been that of the world’s…
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Goodbye to the Least Apocalyptic Summer of the Rest of Your Life
Labor Day is around the corner in the United States, and it’s worth taking stock of what has been, by any objective…
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What JD Vance’s Eruption of Rage Over Usha and El-Sayed Really Reveals
JD Vance is pretending to be very, very angry at Abdul El-Sayed for drawing his wife, Usha Vance, into our political…
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Trump Has No Plan for Fixing His Iran Debacle. The Democrats Need One.
The Iran war is not going well. That has been true more or less since the end of its first week, after the U.S.…
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Good Riddance, Seth Moulton: You Got What You Deserved
The biggest reason that Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election is probably the post-Covid-19 inflation and anti-incumbent…
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House Republican Majority Turns Razor-Thin as Democrat Is Sworn In
Speaker Mike Johnson and the GOP have an even smaller House majority now after Democratic Representative Everton Blair…
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Two Democrats Vote to Save Republican Agenda in Major Embarrassment
Two Blue Dog Democrats rescued the Republican legislative agenda Tuesday, casting the votes needed to advance a slate…
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Every House Member Who’s Still Not at Work After a Five-Week Vacation
The House of Representatives has returned from its five-week summer vacation, but for more than three dozen members…
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Judge Tells RFK Jr. to Stop Using Fake AI Studies on Teen Pregnancy
A federal judge lit into the Department of Health and Human Services, headed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for using either…
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