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The right-wing Alternative for Germany’s victory in the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt sent a shockwave through Germany and Europe. Is it time to let the AfD govern instead of allowing it to keep playing the victim?
Time is running out for the Trump administration to implement a plan that could lead to the disenfranchisement of millions of eligible Americans who want to vote by mail. But that is not stopping the president from trying.
Not surprisingly, Donald Trump wants to make an election in which he is not on the ballot all about himself.
President Trump was taught first by his father and later by the infamous mob lawyer.
Some of the damage Donald Trump is doing to the US will take decades to fix, and some of it is irreparable.
It is said that it’s easier to beg for forgiveness than to ask for permission. Donald Trump isn’t doing either. He just does as he pleases with the GOP-led Congress and the MAGA majority on the Supreme Court looking on.
Robots won’t be needing any holidays, so let’s enjoy this one while we can.
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My exclusive focus until the dust settles on the midterm elections.
Various legal battles across the country that could have a major impact on the outcome of the midterms are heating up with less than two months to go before Election Day.
The bond market is getting restless. What rising yields, $40 trillion in debt, AI spending, and Scott Bessent reveal about the price of money.
A 51-49 Democratic majority in the Senate that relies on John Fetterman is barely a majority at all.
In a surprising victory for democracy, Missouri’s Supreme Court ruled that the state’s Republicans cannot use their gerrymandered map until voters sign off on it in November.
In an uncertain world, the sense of stability that the US military offers appeals to kids not yet old enough to do much else in life. And that’s the point.
Americans need to prepare for these midterms as though someone is trying to deny them their right to vote. Here’s how.
The Department of Energy’s moon shot funding program is working. President Trump seems inclined to keep it.
A consolidated and corporatized media ecosystem has given rise to a growing number of “news deserts.” One state has taken the lead in funding oases.
Democrats want to highlight the administration’s corruption in an effort to show that only they can hold Donald Trump and others accountable. There is evidence that this is resonating with Americans.
A local politician in Missouri got recalled on Tuesday night for a single vote he cast in support of giving tax breaks to a company that wanted to build a data center in the city. He won’t be the last to feel the wrath of voters on this issue.
The Trump administration’s war on renewable energy is jeopardizing exactly the kind of jobs that the president claims to want to create.
“Fire management,” said one researcher, “cannot replace climate mitigation.”
An explosive whistleblower report alleges that the Trump administration is cutting corners and violated a temporary restraining order in an effort to implement a verification system for mail-in ballots that is virtually assured to create chaos ahead of the midterms and may disenfranchise millions of American voters.
The Contagion of incompetence: How many more times will we be told “the war is over”? Will the Draft be reinstated? The public must know: Trump and Hegseth are endangering us all.
It is certainly possible that Donald Trump’s bizarre rants, his insistence that everything is going great, and his certainty that he is the beloved leader of a grateful nation are not (just) a consequence of his delusion but also of a concerted effort to keep reality as far away from the president as possible.
While Donald Trump claims to put “America First,” the damage he is doing to the international reputation of the US is incalculable and irreparable.
SpaceXAI operates data centers near Memphis, TN, without dealing with concerns about excess water usage and air pollution.
The cataclysmic flood in Nepal is the most recent in a number of heat-related events to hit the planet this year.
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Christian nationalists are no longer trying to win democracy, Rep. Jared Huffman argues. They want to replace it with religious rule — and control American life.
The legal battle over Donald Trump’s attempts to insert the federal government in the administration of the midterms continues and the ball is once again in the Supreme Court.
In a step that he says is necessary to protect Canadian women and make them aware of the danger of sexual predators in the US, Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday declared that he will change the name of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort to “Casa Epstein.”
If you were riveted by the investigations into Hunter Biden, you’re going to love the sequel next year.
Journalism mourns a golden age that was really a brief accident of technology and money. The work survives. The priesthood is another matter.
Backing massive gas-burning data centres is no way to build a cleaner, more connected electricity system.
As far as we can tell, Darline Graham’s only qualification is that Donald Trump believes she will be as loyal to him as her late brother was.
There’s another strait in the region with high strategic potential, and Yemen’s Houthis watch over it.
A federal appeals court ruling declaring that only political candidates are entitled to purchase campaign ads at the lowest rate is a major setback for the GOP.
Trump has cleared the way for 45 million acres of protected forest to be opened for logging and construction in what one conservation group called the “largest evisceration of public lands protection in American history.”
However Trump and his Supreme Court work together to make it more difficult and keep you from doing it, in this election voting is not optional.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
American consumers are paying the price for Donald Trump not understanding how trade and tariffs work.
Donald Trump hopes that “his” Supreme Court will clear the way for the implementation of a controversial US Postal Service regulation that would restrict which Americans can vote by mail.
If establishment Democrats want to stop losing primaries to progressives who champion popular policies, then there is an easy fix: get their candidates to adopt bolder platforms that voters actually want.
Donald Trump likes having damaged people around him to reinforce the lies he tells about himself.
US and Canadian officials are blaming each other for their failure to reach a deal that would have staved off the implementation of billions of dollars in new tariffs that will make a variety of goods more expensive for consumers in both countries.
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It might sound counterintuitive to claim that Chief Justice John Roberts’s stay of an order that would have halted construction of Donald Trump’s ballroom is a victory for Democrats, but it is. We’ll explain why.