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April 8, 2025

Everybody Hates Howard Lutnick

Meet the man who’s displaced Elon Musk as the most loathed member of Trump’s inner circle.

By Timothy Noah

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Here’s What One of Trump’s Grantee Termination Letters Looks Like

This NEH grantee was told the "immediate termination" of her grant "is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government." Is this America?

By Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

The Bleak, Defeatist Rise of "Climate Realism"

It’s not just the Trump administration. Bankers, centrist Democrats, and others are embracing the idea that climate targets were never realistic—and that we should now prepare, ruthlessly, for a new future.

By Kate Aronoff

MAGA Rages at Amy Coney Barrett After She Turns Against Trump

The right is pissed at the conservative Supreme Court justice for ruling against Trump’s recent deportations.

By Hafiz Rashid

Trump’s Power Grab Has Begun. Help Us Expose It.

Trump is breaking laws, purging watchdogs, and fast-tracking Project 2025—a plan to seize control and silence dissent. We’re tracking every move, but we need your support to keep going.

This fight depends on people like you stepping up. Will you help us hold the line?

Yes, I’ll help!

China Vows to Fight to the End in Ominous Response to Trump Tariffs

China is warning Donald Trump on his next steps.

By Malcolm Ferguson

Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Now Using AI to Spy on Federal Workers

Be careful what you say if you’re a federal employee.

By Malcolm Ferguson

Denmark Just Took Hillbilly JD Vance to the Woodshed

That was just about the worst vice presidential trip abroad ever.

By Virginia Heffernan

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Trump Adviser Releases Insane List of Demands for Tariffed Countries

Top White House economist Stephen Miran apparently wants free handouts from other nations.

By Edith Olmsted

Top Democrats Launch Probe Into Elon Musk’s Efforts to Get Even Richer

In a letter shared exclusively with The New Republic, House Oversight Democrats urged the Commerce Department to take action against Musk’s conflicts of interest.

By Edith Olmsted

Trump Rages Wildly at Tariff Blowback as GOPers Start Turning on Him

As Trump vents at China and at the handful of Republicans now moving to rein in his tariffs, an economist digs into the deeper, almost pathological incoherence underlying his broader aims and vision.

By The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

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