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June 23, 2025

 

The Republican Plot to Un-Educate America

Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is an extinction-level event for higher education that would annihilate the country’s intellectual potential.

By Astra Taylor, Eleni Schirmer

 

Court Battles: A SCOTUS Update

With so many major decisions coming down—with implications for the role of religion in public life, efforts to restrict gender-affirming care, gerrymandering—not to mention the serious threat to our Constitution, there’s a lot to unpack. 

 

Join us on July 2 to analyze and discuss the end-of-session Supreme Court rulings and their legal and political ramifications.

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This Is Donald Trump’s War, and It’s Only the Beginning

The president who campaigned on avoiding long-term conflicts in the Middle East may have just committed the United States to another one.

By Joe Cirincione

 

I Still Think Trump Will Fire Jerome Powell

It’s getting harder not to read the Federal Reserve chairman’s hesitation to lower interest rates as anything other than a comment on Trump’s incompetence.

By Timothy Noah

 

Trump’s Threat to Unleash Troops in Cities Darkens as Brutal Poll Hits

As Trump vows to send the military into more cities amid some bad polling news on the issue, a sharp observer of public opinion explains why he’s losing the voters on this—and how Dems should proceed now.

By The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

 

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A Letter From a Young Iranian American as We Head to War

We are not pawns in your war: War with Iran threatens not just Iranian freedoms but Western freedoms as well.

By Aubtin Heydari

 

The Rich Should Be Paying More—and Yes, That Means Me

The last 50 years have been a sickening catastrophe for the working class and have created another class of people who really do think they’re better than everyone else. There is an obvious cure for their unearned sense of entitlement.

By Abigail Disney

 

The Simple Truth About These Miserable Heat Waves

Much of the country is facing brutal, potentially deadly heat. The reasons for such extreme events are not complicated.

By Kate Aronoff

 

Trump Brazenly Brags About Real Reason He Bombed Iran

Donald Trump’s team has spent days insisting the attack isn’t about regime change.

By Edith Olmsted

 

If You Thought Donald Trump Would Never Do This, You’re an Idiot

By Michael Tomasky 

Are you surprised? If you’re surprised, frankly, you’re a fool. You understand nothing about politics and international affairs, and you bought into obviously dishonest propaganda about who Donald Trump is.

 

As of the morning of Friday the 13th, as fate would have it, it was about 90 percent likely that the president was going to join Israel’s war on Iran. That was the day, according to numerous news accounts, that Trump woke up to see the hosts on Fox News bleating about how tough Benjamin Netanyahu was (the bombing had started the night before). Trump’s social media posts that day made it obvious that he wanted a piece of that action.

 

Trump’s Threat to Unleash Troops in Cities Just Got Darker and Scarier

The president just won a temporary victory in court on his troops in Los Angeles. His unhinged reaction to it reveals the true depths of his malevolent intentions toward—well, us.

By Greg Sargent

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