Plus, the Trump atrocity happening in plain sight on the media’s watch, and more...
| Kari Lake announced a deal to feed content from One America News, the pro-Trump network, to the government-funded international news outlet. It won’t cost anything—except the truth. |
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| Sponsored by Working America, AFL-CIO |
| We heard from folks in competitive Republican districts—and they’re not too sure about our economic future. |
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| The president’s demolition of the lifesaving Bush-era HIV/AIDS program will kill tens of thousands of people in sub-Saharan Africa. Why does nobody care? |
| In theory, "pronatalist" policies could help alleviate child poverty—but only if they’re paired with other efforts to strengthen the social safety net. |
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| On May 14, TNR’s editor, Michael Tomasky, and staff writers Matt Ford, Timothy Noah, Tori Otten, and Greg Sargent will host the next in our series America in Crisis, live and livestreamed from the Atlas Performing Arts Center in Washington, D.C. With Trump’s antidemocratic rampage underway, this event will bring together influential political figures and commentators to explore what we can do to fight back. Guests will include Senator Amy Klobuchar; Everett Kelley, national president of the American Federation of Government Employees; Leah Greenberg, co-founder and co–executive director of the Indivisible Project; Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi; Skye Perryman, president and CEO of Democracy Forward; Representative Veronica Escobar, and many more. |
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| OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other artificial-intelligence executives are vague about what AI can do for the government. They’re very specific about what the government can do for them. |
| The star Michigan state senator felt powerless when Donald Trump first won. Now she wants to flip that script—by winning a U.S. Senate seat. |
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| The president is peddling hot nonsense on what tariffs can do for America—and the person he’s conned the most seems to be himself. |
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| It’s a great day to be an Anglophile. But the global economy is still on the verge of a ruinous trade war. |
| Donald Trump is so desperate to get a trade deal with China that he’s already backing down. |
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Exiling Americans? This Isn’t Legal. It’s Not Even Close. |
Trump is openly floating the idea of banishing "homegrowns" to Salvadoran prisons, with zero legal basis. This isn’t "deportation." It’s the kind of fascist lunacy that should be laughed out of the room—except his administration is actually considering it. Will you help us continue to expose this authoritarian madness? |
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| MAGA is in full meltdown mode over the new pope’s tweets. |
| Trump has nominated Jeanine Pirro as interim U.S. attorney for D.C. Here are some of the most deranged things she’s said. |
| As MAGA personalities fume about the newly elected pope’s indictments of Trump and JD Vance, a political theorist steeped in the post-liberal right decodes why Trumpism is so inimical to Catholic teaching. |
| By The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent |
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| Sponsored by The DSR Network |
| Twice a week, Deep State Radio takes you on a smart, direct, and sometimes hilarious tour of the inner workings of American power and the impact of our leaders on the world. Hosted by David Rothkopf with top experts, this podcast delivers the unvarnished perspectives others shy away from. |
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