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Trump Goes Mask Off With Chilling Comment About Dictators
Edith Olmsted, The New Republic
Donald Trump claimed the American people are asking for a dictator—and he seems more than happy to give them what they want. While signing executive orders in the Oval Office Monday morning, Trump whined that people were up in arms after he suggested that he …
Aug 25, 2025, 4:13 PM
Trump Bans Flag Burning in Direct Threat to First Amendment
Malcolm Ferguson, The New Republic
President Trump on Monday signed an executive order instructing the U.S. attorney general to pursue criminal charges against anyone caught burning the American flag, blatantly violating basic freedom of speech and expression laws. “Flag burning. All over the …
Aug 25, 2025, 3:51 PM
Transcript: Gavin Newsom’s Harsh Trump Takedown Nails It: “Wake Up!”
The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, The New Republic
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the August 25 episode of theDaily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.California G…
Aug 25, 2025, 11:02 AM
Stopping Trump’s Dictatorship Is a Vital Message—and a Winning One
Perry Bacon, The New Republic
CNN and MSNBC with a constant “The Trump Dictatorship” chyron on-screen. How Democracies Die authors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt writing weekly columns in The New York Times, The Washington Post, or The Wall Street Journal. Reporters at major news outl…
Aug 24, 2025, 10:00 AM
The Biggest Criminal in D.C. Right Now Is Trump
Timothy Noah, The New Republic
On Monday morning, President Donald Trump said something was “out of control” and that “we’re gonna put it in control very quickly.... I’m announcing a historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor, and worse.”Trump…
Aug 11, 2025, 9:27 PM
Hegseth’s Rant on D.C. Takeover Turned Into Evidence Against Trump
Robert McCoy, The New Republic
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Monday remarks about the deployment of troops on the streets of Washington, D.C., may have already harmed the Trump administration in its legal battle over the deployment of troops on the streets of Los Angeles.Monday marked t…
Aug 11, 2025, 9:18 PM
Trump, 79, Claims He’s Going to Russia to Meet Putin (He’s Not)
Robert McCoy, The New Republic
Donald Trump on Monday seemed to forget the location of his upcoming summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin—once again raising concerns about the cognitive ability of the 79-year-old president.The president had announced the summit, which will take plac…
Aug 11, 2025, 4:35 PM
Trump Seizes Unprecedented Power Over D.C. Using Rare Rule
Malcolm Ferguson, The New Republic
President Trump on Monday announced plans to invoke Section 740 of the D.C. Home Rule Act of 1973, giving him temporary control over Washington, D.C.. This is unprecedented. As a federal district and not a state, the Home Rule Act gives D.C. the right to elec…
Aug 11, 2025, 2:56 PM
Even Fox News Is Fact-Checking Trump’s Deranged D.C. Claims
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, The New Republic
The president wants to federalize law enforcement in the nation’s capital—but his favorite mainstream media channel isn’t on board.Fox News contributor Ted Williams, a criminal and civil trial attorney and former member of the Washington Metropolitan Police D…
Aug 11, 2025, 2:21 PM
Judge Calls Trump’s Bluff on Ghislaine Maxwell Grand Jury Materials
Robert McCoy, The New Republic
A federal judge is ripping into Donald Trump for his obvious diversion tactic on the Jeffrey Epstein case.
Aug 11, 2025, 2:14 PM
JD Vance’s Epstein Files Defense Backfires Big-Time
Malcolm Ferguson, The New Republic
On Sunday, Vice President JD Vance and the Trump administration tried and failed to shift the accountability for the Epstein files onto Democrats, only reinvigorating calls for their release. “I laugh at the Democrats who are now all of a sudden so interested…
Aug 11, 2025, 1:13 PM
How Democrats Can Stop Bickering and Focus on Stopping Trump
Perry Bacon, The New Republic
I hate logging onto X these days because the platform promotes conservatives and downgrades links to stories from serious news organizations. But I also hate X because so much of what I see is fighting among Democrats. Some of these debates are important, suc…
Aug 11, 2025, 10:00 AM
Trump Is the Enemy of the American Revolution
Johann Neem, The New Republic
Almost 250 years ago, on July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence proclaimed the United States an independent country. Having rid themselves of a king, the revolutionaries established a republican government that derived its authority from the consent of…
Aug 11, 2025, 10:00 AM
Trump’s Reckless Assault on Remembrance
Edward L. Ayers, The New Republic
Americans will encounter the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026 through four distinct but intertwined forms of remembrance: commemoration, celebration, memory, and history. The four perspectives constantly shift and interconnect, oft…
Aug 10, 2025, 10:00 AM
RFK’s War on Antidepressants Will Hit Postpartum Patients Hard
Laura Weiss, The New Republic
A few weeks after the birth of her first son, Mikaela Rodkin, a D.C.-based mom who works in management consulting, started to notice something was “seriously wrong.” She was so overwhelmed by worry that she had trouble bonding with her baby. She felt like she…
Aug 9, 2025, 10:00 AM
Trump Wants a Police State—But Even Some Cops Want Something Better
Jim Sleeper, The New Republic
Decades before Donald Trump entered politics, he made clear his desire for authoritarian policing that would whisk American citizens as well as legal visa holders into prison or deportation with scant due process. Some police officers and sheriffs were simila…
Aug 3, 2025, 10:00 AM
Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows
Greg Sargent, The New Republic
President Donald Trump has already enmeshed the United States military in domestic law enforcement operations involving immigration to an unprecedented degree. He has authorized a major military buildup at the border. He has maximized the use of military plan…
Aug 2, 2025, 10:00 AM
Bondi Takes Revenge on Judge Trump Absolutely Hates...
Malcolm Ferguson, The New Republic
Bondi Takes Revenge on Judge Trump Absolutely Hates... (First column, 6th story, link)
Jul 29, 2025, 1:34 PM
How Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Stiffed Tipped Workers
Grace Segers, The New Republic
Several of President Donald Trump’s key campaign promises were written into the new Republican law which slashes federal benefits and implements tax breaks for primarily higher-income Americans. One of the more touted provisions, the elimination of federal in…
Jul 13, 2025, 10:00 AM
We Are Wittingly Fooling Ourselves About Trump’s Attack on Iran
Nancy Okail, The New Republic
Earlier this year, in an unexpected divergence from the long-prevailing foreign policy rhetoric of presidents from both parties, Donald Trump gave a speech in Riyadh criticizing interventionists, neoconservatives, and America’s habit of bombing Middle Eastern…
Jul 4, 2025, 10:00 AM
Soldiers Are Taking a Stand Against Trump’s Abuses
Liza Featherstone, The New Republic
Kim, an aircraft mechanic, joined the military in 2019, at age 18. She and her mother had struggled to survive, even living in their car at times. She didn’t think she could afford college, so she didn’t apply. Like so many young Americans in that situation, …
Jul 4, 2025, 10:00 AM
Trump Just Expanded His Tawdry Empire of Scams
Jason Linkins, The New Republic
In the end, I was only on hold with the Trump Mobile customer service line for about 13 minutes. I’d been offered the opportunity to simply leave a number for an agent to call me back, due to “unprecedented demand,” but my extreme reluctance to give anyone af…
Jun 21, 2025, 10:00 AM
Trump’s Threat to Unleash Troops in Cities Just Got Darker and Scarier
Greg Sargent, The New Republic
On Thursday, President Donald Trump scored a temporary victory after an appeals court ruled that he can continue deploying the National Guard as part of his watch-me-play-fascist-on-TV response to anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. The decision accepted Trump’…
Jun 21, 2025, 10:00 AM
The Iranian Voices Missing From the “Regime Change” Debate
Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic
We have been here before. For those who remember the lead-up to the Iraq War, the last week has been unnerving. Ever since Israel launched unprovoked airstrikes in the middle of the night on June 12, American politicians from both parties and the media have p…
Jun 21, 2025, 10:00 AM
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