Fear and Anger in NYC: What the Voters and the Poobahs See in Zohran Mamdani
The voters seem to be with him but the powers-that-be fear the change he’s promising.
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The voters seem to be with him but the powers-that-be fear the change he’s promising.
The country’s new secretary of war explains to America’s leading generals and admirals what he expects from the new American Warrior.
When Donald Trump says something is a hoax, then you can be certain that the thing is not a hoax and poses some political peril to him.
Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump put on quite a show for the nation’s top military officers on Tuesday… and it should trouble every American.
Republicans don’t have a viable candidate in New York City’s mayoral race. And yet, the stakes are very high for them, as demonstrated by Donald Trump’s most recent attack on Zohran Mamdani.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) explained on Sunday that the fact that a grand jury indicted James Comey means everything was done by the book, which is curious because he keeps claiming that Donald Trump, who was indicted by four different grand juries, was treated unfairly.
Donald Trump is constantly claiming his Cabinet is doing a fantastic job. What job is that? Destroying people’s lives through corruption, ignorance, and malice?
The one thing we know about next week’s secret meeting of generals and admirals is that nobody seems to know anything about it.
It helped build America and it lives still in our DNA — and in my DNA.
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Years of fragile democracy, weak institutions, and deep inequality created a tinderbox that ignited earlier this month.
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