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President Joe Biden still imagines that he could have won. Asked by USA Today’s Susan Page whether he could have beaten Donald Trump if he had stayed in the race, Biden responded: “It’s presumptuous to say that, but I think yes.”
Reality thinks not.
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A senior GOP representative from Texas vanished from Congress for five months. Kay Granger, who is 81 years old, stepped down as chair of the House Appropriations Committee this past spring, and she announced last year that she would not seek reelection.
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Yesterday, a tantrum from the world’s richest person swayed events in Congress. First, Elon Musk launched a blizzard of X posts denouncing a bipartisan spending bill designed to keep the government open.
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In 1957, the Soviet Union shocked the world with the launch of its Earth-orbiting Sputnik satellite. The United States, fearful of the security risk and hoping to make the nation more competitive with foreign powers, reacted with dramatic investments in science-and-technology education.
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I hesitate to speak for other Never Trumpers, but we’ve gotten used to losing, haven’t we? In three consecutive presidential elections, our doughty gang of dissidents has failed spectacularly in its attempts to shake Donald Trump’s grip on the GOP.
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Mark Robinson is pointing a finger at artificial intelligence amid the recent revelations about disturbing comments he allegedly made on a porn site.
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This morning found the former apex predator of American politics looking for some hand-holding.
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On Monday, Donald Trump visited the sacred ground of Arlington National Cemetery, where many of America’s war dead are buried, and posed for photos. In the strangest of these pictures, the former president is smiling and giving a thumbs-up by the grave of a Marine.
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The Trump campaign’s post yesterday about the “Third World” went beyond Trump’s known obsession with migrant crime to highlight an embrace of the “Great Replacement” theory.
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“Trump, enraged and rattled, is reverting to his feral ways,” Peter Wehner wrote in The Atlantic today.
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Even more dangerous than the politics of Biden’s Supreme Court–reform proposal is the escalating attack on American institutions that it represents.
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Donald Trump questions whether Kamala Harris is really Black.
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The choice of Donald Trump versus Kamala Harris is proving to be a remarkably easy one for the Never Trumpers who really meant never.
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The most revealing moment of a Trump rally
“This is the worst police-shooting video ever.
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For a moment on Saturday, it felt as though we might start to see a gentler, more unifying political climate. But Donald Trump is still Donald Trump, and his message is incapable of bringing America together.
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Can the Democratic Party break out of the bubble it has created and sustained for so long? Or will it double down on the denial?
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Anne Applebaum: Time to roll the dice
John Dean: Richard Nixon would have loved the Court’s immunity decision.
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The pro-life movement may have won the battle two years ago today, but they’re losing the war—and turning an entire generation away from their cause.
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Donald Trump’s reported idea to replace the income tax with huge tariffs on imports exposes the hollowness of his populism.
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The 1970s movie that explains 2020s America
Trump dreams of a swifter death penalty.
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This week, two influential spreaders of Donald Trump’s Big Lie faced trouble. These aren’t the first glitches in the conspiracy-theory universe.
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The cars always win.
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After the 2016 release of the Access Hollywood tape in which Donald Trump boasts about groping women, Republicans considered their options—and Trump’s candidacy faced a moment of maximum peril.
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As we wait for the jury’s verdict in Donald Trump’s hush-money case, let’s slow down a bit and ponder what the former president has told us over the past few days.
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The real “deep state”
RFK Jr.
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Amid the parade of outrages, what we’re feeling isn’t numbness. It’s more like airsickness.
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Trump’s money problems are becoming a crisis for the entire country.
Cows have almost certainly infected more than two people with bird flu.
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The turmoil on college campuses and at the Democratic National Convention in 1968 helped propel Richard Nixon to victory—and marked the long-term transformation of national politics. Donald Trump is likely hoping that history will repeat itself.
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More than 200 years ago, Alexander Hamilton defied partisanship for the sake of the country’s future; if he hadn’t done so, American history might have taken a very different course. Today, Republicans face the same choice.
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The passage of the Ukrainian aid package by the House this past weekend is an extraordinary sign of political courage. But in the party of Donald Trump, this win for democracy may soon seem like a mirage.
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In our digitally chaotic world, relying on the election-reporting strategies of the past is like bringing the rules of chess to the Thunderdome.
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The federal judiciary may turn out to be an endangered democracy’s last line of defense.
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So you looked directly into the sun.