Mitch McConnell Has Been Missing for 75 Days—With No Updates
It’s been at least 75 days since Senator Mitch McConnell has been seen in public. Yet on Thursday—despite McConnell…
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What Darline Graham’s Ugly, Viral Outburst About Death Really Reveals
Darline Graham, who just sashayed into the Senate seat of her late brother, Lindsey Graham, likes to tell a story about…
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Trump Plans to Ditch 9/11 Ceremony for the Most Selfish Reason
President Trump won’t commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks in New York because he…
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Dolly Parton’s Fight for Working Women
Back in 1972, some colleagues and I were sitting in a circle on our lunch hour talking about our jobs. We talked about…
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Meet “the Ultimate Climate Solution”
Millions of oat-milk drinkers around the world are about to learn that a supermajority of people want stronger climate…
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Pete Hegseth Is Too Egotistical to Know How Incompetent He Is
A flurry of reports from various media outlets is revealing how the unqualified secretary of defense is damaging…
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The 1915 TNR Debate That Predicted the Ills of the Billionaire Class
In December 1915, Jacob Schiff sent an irritated letter to Walter Lippmann. Among the country’s most powerful…
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Transcript: Trump Wrecks GOP Midterm Strategy in Dumbest Self-Own Ever
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the August 29 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.…
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Trump Accidentally Wrecks GOP Midterm Message in Dumbest Self-Own Ever
This week, Donald Trump aggressively highlighted a long screed from a MAGA influencer that sharply criticized the GOP…
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Republican Governor Calls Out DOJ’s “Aggressive” Election Monitors
Wyoming’s Republican Governor Mark Gordon is sounding the alarm about the Trump administration’s “aggressive” and…
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Grand Jury Says DeSantis “Misused” $10 Million in Medicaid Funds
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s administration “misappropriated” $10 million from a state Medicaid settlement to lobby…
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Max Miller Threatens to Air Ex-Father-in-Law’s Dirty Laundry
Representative Max Miller is needling his former father-in-law, Senator Bernie Moreno. The embattled Ohio Republican…
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Transcript: The Mistake That Progressive Candidates Keep Making
This is a lightly edited transcript of the August 26 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video…
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West Point Professor Fired for Refusing to Lie About Climate Change
A science professor says he was fired from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, for refusing to ignore…
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You can watch this video above. You can read a transcript here. The spring and summer featured a number of primaries…
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Trump’s Iran War Somehow Makes Missile Shortage Even Worse
The Iran war has gravely exacerbated the U.S. military’s advanced missile interceptor shortage in Europe. The shortage…
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While Americans pay the price for President Trump’s war in Iran, he appears to be cashing in on it. Trump made more…
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Texas Has Suspended More Than 1 Million Voters Ahead of Senate Race
Six percent of Texas’s voters—over 1.2 million people—have had their voter registrations suspended, and many might not…
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Trump Seriously Renames Lake Ontario as He Escalates Feud With Canada
Need any more proof that Donald Trump’s pettiness knows no bounds? The president signed an executive order Thursday to…
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ICE Agent Freed From Jail Despite Charges for Shooting Someone
An ICE agent accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant in Minneapolis in January has been released from a Texas jail…
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Trump Jr. Warns Republican Lawmakers to Back Off Prediction Markets
Donald Trump Jr., the president’s son, wants Republican state leaders to stay away from any regulation of prediction…
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Trump’s Big Midterm Strategy Sure Looks Like a Massive Flop
President Donald Trump wants you to pretend that he’s on the ballot in the midterm elections. Speaking in an interview…
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GOP Congressman Accused of Sexual Harassment Pens Deranged Defense
“Poetry is not sexual misconduct,” writes disgraced North Carolina Representative Chuck Edwards. The congressman…
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RFK Jr. Lied in Confirmation Hearings About Spreading Measles in Samoa
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lied to the Senate about his 2019 trip to Samoa. During two separate confirmation hearings last…
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Goodbye to Karoline Leavitt, the Latest in a Long Line of Clowns
So long Karoline Leavitt, we hardly knew ye—and what we did know, we didn’t like. Leavitt will officially step away…
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What’s Driving Kamala Harris’s Midterm Endorsement Strategy?
You’re reading The TNR Blue Book. Get daily scoops, strategy, and developments inside the liberal ideas factory…
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Hegseth Considers Army Secretary Accused of Horrific Abuse
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has his eyes on his next Army secretary, and true to form, the leading candidate’s…
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MAGA Senate Candidate’s Ex-Staffer Posted Nazi and KKK Images
Even Georgia Republicans have grown worried about Representative Mike Collins’s staffing choices. A former staffer for…
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Trump-Appointed Judge Rejects DOJ’s Attempt to Save Steve Bannon
Steve Bannon’s attempt to erase his criminal indictment for refusing to testify before the House’s January 6 committee…
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Even Trump Lawyers Can’t Deny He “Irrevocably Damaged” Kennedy Center
Donald Trump’s so-called renovations to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts have done more harm than…
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Education Department Seriously Posts Video Comparing Trump to Hitler
On Wednesday night, the Department of Education posted a video to X comparing President Trump to Adolf Hitler, and then…
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Transcript: Trump Unraveling as Aides Feed Him Crackpot Poll Hopium
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the August 27 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.…
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The Data Center Backlash Is a Rare Bright Spot in American Politics
A certain segment of American elites has recently realized that people don’t like AI, data centers, and the Silicon…
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There’s Nothing Wrong With Being a “Subaru Socialist”
The sweeping success of progressive candidates this election season and the rapid growth of the group with which many…
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Ridley Scott’s The Dog Stars Is an Oddly Trad Fantasy
“I never want to repeat myself, and all my films have been on the money,” said Sir Ridley Scott, promoting his new…
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They’ve Been Screwed Over for 160 Years. Trump Is Screwing Them More.
On the day we met in early June, Philip “P.J.” Haynie III’s gears had ground him awake just before 4:30 a.m. By the…
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