The Films That Foretold Fascism
On April 15, 1941, the small steamship Nyassa slipped out of Lisbon carrying 816 refugees, nearly double its legal…
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The Supreme Court Joins Trump’s Insidious War on Voting Rights
The Supreme Court lifted a lower court’s stay of President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to commandeer state…
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Why Minneapolis Has Become the Center of 2020s Politics
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Trump’s Fury at Canada Takes Unhinged Turn—and Backfires Badly for Him
Donald Trump’s rage at Canada is growing more unhinged. He just posted a deranged threat to rename Lake Ontario with…
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Hegseth’s Army Purges Have Undermined Military Leadership on Iran
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision to fire numerous top generals has put America’s military between a rock and a…
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Is Farm Country About to Turn on Trump?
The Financial Times reported Tuesday that farmers in America’s Corn Belt region are facing their toughest economic…
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Republicans Brace for Darline Graham to Lose in South Carolina
With hours on the clock until polls close, Republicans are betting that Senator Darline Graham—the temporary fill-in…
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Trump Team Refuses to Explain Imported Beef Origin as Backlash Grows
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins refused to speak on what countries President Trump plans to import tariff-free…
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Federal Judge Frees Witness to Fatal ICE Shooting in Houston
A federal judge has ordered the government to release one of the witnesses to ICE’s fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado…
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Dolly Parton, Country Singer Who Crossed All Party Lines, Dies at 80
Dolly Parton, the award-winning singer, songwriter, actress, philanthropist, and all-around all-star human being, died…
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RFK Jr. Resignation Calls Grow as Two People Die From Measles
Calls for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s resignation are growing after two unvaccinated people died from…
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Trump-Aligned Board Threatens to Demolish the Kennedy Center
The Trump administration, in its ongoing effort to shatter previous world records for spitefulness, is threatening to…
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We’re About to Learn How DOGE Helped ICE Get Taxpayer Data
A court has ordered the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to disclose to immigrants’ rights groups how…
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This Kentucky Republican Is Erasing Trump From His Campaign
Is the Republican Party going to spend the election season running away from Donald Trump? If Ralph Alvarado, a…
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The “Woke” Painting That’s Driving the Trump Administration Crazy
President Donald Trump’s administration was so triggered by a “woke” painting that it had it removed. For years, a…
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Canada Retaliates With Plan to Tariff Hundreds of American Goods
Canada has hit back at the United States, announcing retaliatory tariffs of up to 50 percent on $20 billion worth of…
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What Is Trump’s CIA Director Doing in Russia?
According to reports, CIA Director John Ratcliffe secretly flew to Moscow on Tuesday. The purpose of Ratcliffe’s Russia…
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First-Ever Republican Midterm Convention Turning Into “Shit Show”
The Republican Party’s first-ever midterm convention is quickly becoming a Trump-style grift. Puck reports that the…
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This Democratic Nominee for Governor Refuses to Condemn Data Centers
You’re reading The TNR Blue Book. Get daily scoops, strategy, and developments inside the liberal ideas factory…
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Kennedy Center Finances Collapsed Once Trump Added His Name
President Trump has hailed his takeover of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as an economic boon for…
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Democrats Demand Answers on Jared Kushner’s Shady Albania Land Deal
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are expanding their probe of Jared Kushner’s alleged foreign corruption to…
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Trump’s EPA Moves to Give Data Centers a Pass
The Trump administration is proposing a new rule that would basically give data centers the ability to pollute as much…
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Trump Is Tightening His Corrupt Grip on the U.S. Postal Service
The Supreme Court buoyed one of Donald Trump’s more aggressive voter-suppression efforts Monday, permitting the White…
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Trump Ignored Every Warning He Got on Iran War—and There Were a Lot
Multiple people close to President Trump advised him to moderate his approach to the war on Iran. Six months later,…
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Trump Threatens to Rename Lake Ontario as He Spirals Over Canada Feud
President Trump is taking out his frustrations on Canada by threatening to rename Lake Ontario. “The United States is…
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Transcript: Krugman on How Trump Reveals Deep Contempt for MAGA Voters
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the August 25 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.…
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Why Professors Got Behind Abdul El-Sayed
You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You…
Read at source →Transcript: Why Professors Got Behind El-Sayed
This is a lightly edited transcript of the August 24 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video…
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If America Doesn’t Want Data Centers, Where Will They Go?
There are few political topics that Governors Kathy Hochul and Greg Abbott would likely agree on. But data centers…
Read at source →How Trump’s Crazed Fury at Canada Is Already Backfiring Badly for Him
Here’s a bit of poetic justice for you: The Democratic bid for control of Congress just might end up running right…
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What the Hell Are Karen Bass, Xavier Becerra, and Gavin Newsom Doing?
Twelve Democratic attorneys general, including California’s Rob Bonta, filed a lawsuit last month to block the…
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Krugman: Trump Just Revealed Extraordinary Contempt for MAGA Voters
The other day, Donald Trump unveiled a new “plan” to curb beef prices by suspending tariffs on huge amounts of beef…
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Supreme Court Takes Step Toward Upholding Trump’s Mail-in Voting Ban
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson slammed the Supreme Court’s Monday shadow-docket decision to greenlight…
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Darline Graham Goes All In on Election Denialism
Darline Graham’s latest bid to solidify Donald Trump’s support involves a fraught empty gesture. The 62-year-old…
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Trump Has Found a New Way to Sabotage the Asylum Process
President Donald Trump’s administration has come up with a new scheme that will gut due process for asylum applicants.…
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Susan Collins Ditches JD Vance as He Campaigns for Her
Vice President JD Vance has made two trips to Maine to stump for Republican Senator Susan Collins as her midterm…
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