Friday

February 7, 2025

As video surfaces of Secretary of State Marco Rubio praising USAID, a former USAID official explains why Rubio will run into sharp conflict with the Trump-Musk drive to destroy it, with awful global consequences.

By The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

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The New Republic’s new senior legal columnist talks with editor Michael Tomasky about how Donald Trump is wrecking the Justice Department.

By Michael Tomasky

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

By Timothy Noah

Elon Musk’s efforts to slash the U.S. government could be a huge boon to China—a country to which Musk has significant financial ties.

By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Not all of the spaghetti has to stick to the wall for him to make a mess of our world.

By Heather Souvaine Horn

On February 12, we are producing an important event to help you prepare for Trump 2.0. Livestreamed from Washington, D.C., it will gather influential political commentators determined to mitigate the imminent threats of a second Trump term, including Jared Bernstein, Pramila Jayapal, Jamie Raskin, Bennie Thompson, Olivia Troye, Mark Zaid, and more.

This event is produced in partnership with Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the Rachel Carson Council.

The Nobel laureate’s new novel "We Do Not Part" grapples with an atrocity and the difficulties of bearing witness.

By Lily Meyer

The FEC Democratic chair is not having Donald Trump’s nonsense.

By Edith Olmsted

Donald Trump’s inner circle is losing it over Elon Musk’s chaos.

By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Donald Trump has decided who will be managing the TikTok portfolio in the U.S.

By Hafiz Rashid

Trump’s executive order stripping federal workers of legal protections is the most dangerous of his unlawful power grabs. But there is a way to win them back.

By Simon Lazarus

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