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There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in America
How regime change happens in America
The defense secretary is signaling a major shift.
Trump’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico is not triumphant but pathetic.
He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.
They helped him in pursuit of profit. Many ended up in concentration camps.
The key criteria for those in the top-tier positions appear to be loyalty, wealth, and ideological fervor, not competence.
America’s health is in the hands of an anti-vaccine conspiracist.
Everything is going to be a little more expensive now.
Senate Republicans have confirmed Trump’s least qualified Cabinet nominees—and given up their role as an independent check on the president.
The conflict isn’t over, but its fate now appears clear.
Charlie Springer spent a lifetime building his music collection. The Los Angeles fires incinerated it.
You can cite peer-reviewed research in support of almost any claim, no matter how absurd.
Lessons from the pandemic and its aftermath
The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.
Since COVID, parents have more questions and more concerns.
DOGE’s takeover of federal agencies is a counterintelligence crisis.