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January 8, 2025

 

Trump’s Angry, Unhinged Rants at Presser Show Things Will Get Very Bad

After Trump unleashes some wildly crazed ideas to reporters, an expert in authoritarian rhetoric says Trump revealed deeper intentions that are dangerously alarming and designed to normalize the abnormal.

By The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

 

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Democrats Will Regret Not Stripping Trump’s Dangerous War Powers

Biden and Congress squandered a chance to end the legal underpinnings of the forever war. The president-elect will once again reap the powers afforded to him.

By Nicholas Slayton

 

Police Unions’ Damning Silence on Trump’s Plan to Pardon Cop Beaters

The president-elect says he’ll pardon January 6 rioters, many of whom assaulted police at the U.S. Capitol that day. Why won’t the unions condemn it? There’s a simple answer.

By Melissa Gira Grant

 

RSVP Now: Navigating the Dark Road Ahead

On February 12, TNR’s editor Michael Tomasky and staff writers Timothy Noah and Greg Sargent will host an important event to help you prepare for Trump 2.0. Live streamed from Washington, D.C., it will gather top minds in politics and culture determined to mitigate the possible damages of a second Trump term.

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Yes—It’s Still Important That Our Felon President Face a Sentence

Donald Trump will not be going to jail. But his weaselly legal arguments must not be allowed to stand this week.

By Harry Litman

 

Elizabeth Strout’s Plunge Into Sentimentality

If Strout was once a master at portraying quiet lives in a big way, she now relies on easy plays for emotional connection and tidy resolution.

By Linda Hall

 
 

Trump Launches Hail Mary to Supreme Court Over Hush-Money Sentencing

Donald Trump is once again begging the Supreme Court to let him get away with everything.

By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

 

Matt Gaetz Already Has a Plan to Return to Power and Wreak Havoc

Former Representative Matt Gaetz has decided what his next act will be.

By Edith Olmsted

 

The GOP Is Rewriting What It Means to Be a Person

The far right is weaponizing a doctrine that granted rights and liberties in order to snuff out the citizenship of anyone who isn’t a white man.

By Susan Rinkunas

 

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