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The Case for Impeaching Donald Trump
Jason Linkins, The New Republic
I think Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch has summed up the past week in American life more succinctly than I ever could: “We are going to look back fondly on 2025 as ‘the sane year’” of Trump’s second term. Here’s where we left off in 2025: Trumpism…
Jan 10, 2026, 11:00 AM
Trump Could Destroy NATO With This One Move, Danish P.M. Warns
Edith Olmsted, The New Republic
Donald Trump’s obsession with Greenland is on track to wreck the world order.
Jan 5, 2026, 7:08 PM
Trump Has Started Carving Up the World. Now It’s Putin and Xi’s Turn.
Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic
The U.S. invasion of Venezuela late last Friday shocked the world for many reasons. It represents another fundamental departure from the post-WWII order supported by the United States for the last 50 years. It was also an unprovoked, naked act of aggression b…
Jan 4, 2026, 3:06 PM
Steve Bannon Turns on Trump Over His Threat to Iran
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, The New Republic
The president is apparently taking foreign policy lessons from one of his political nemeses, Hillary Clinton—at least, that’s what one of his biggest first-term acolytes seems to believe.Trump’s former chief White House strategist Steve Bannon accused his old…
Jan 2, 2026, 9:37 PM
ICE Is Targeting a New Demographic for Recruitment: The Manosphere
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, The New Republic
The powers that be at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are planning on a massive recruitment drive in 2026—but the people they’re hoping to attract aren’t your typical feds.The deportation agency has earmarked $100 million for online advertisements ov…
Jan 2, 2026, 7:21 PM
Trump Keeps Posting About Dead Birds After Story on His Rapid Decline
Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic
Just one day after a bombshell Wall Street Journal story on the president’s growing signs of aging, Donald Trump went on a bizarre posting spree about dead birds and wind turbines.Throughout Friday, Trump posted several different photos on Truth Social of dea…
Jan 2, 2026, 7:10 PM
Elon Musk’s Grok AI Tool Admits It Posted Explicit Photos of Children
Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic
Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot admitted on Friday that it has been posting sexualized images of children on X, blaming “lapses in safeguard” for the content.“We’ve identified lapses in safeguards and are urgently fixing them—[Child sexual abuse material] is ille…
Jan 2, 2026, 5:40 PM
MAGA Loses Its Collective Mind Over Zohran Mamdani’s Inauguration
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, The New Republic
Conservatives are already fuming about New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plans to bring the Big Apple together.Right-wing commentators blasted Mamdani’s inaugural pledge to bring “the warmth of collectivism” to city residents Thursday, claiming that the ma…
Jan 2, 2026, 4:29 PM
Trump Rings In New Year With Threats of War and George Clooney Feud
Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic
President Donald Trump has rung in 2026 by threatening war on two fronts—and picking a bizarre fight with American actor George Clooney and his wife Amal.Trump on New Year’s Eve trashed the actor’s decision to leave the United States and obtain French citizen…
Jan 2, 2026, 2:46 PM
Trump Throws a Fit After WSJ Publishes Story on His Decrepit Health
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, The New Republic
A damning new report on Donald Trump’s health has stirred the American public, and even roused the president himself.Practically nothing irks Trump more than stories about his age and his natural deterioration. But a Wall Street Journal article published Thur…
Jan 2, 2026, 2:32 PM
“Locked and Loaded”: Trump Threatens Iran in 3 a.m. Post
Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic
President Donald Trump threatened to intervene in Iran if the regime hurts protesters, warning the United States is “locked and loaded.”“If Iran shots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to th…
Jan 2, 2026, 1:44 PM
This Is the Real SNAP Fraud
Timothy Noah, The New Republic
When Republican politicians complain about “food stamp fraud,” they generally mean that some welfare cheat is ripping off the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, by falsely claiming eligibility. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, for instan…
Jan 2, 2026, 11:00 AM
The Right-Wing Justices Know Their Favorite Legal Theory Is Bunk
Simon Lazarus, The New Republic
The media’s takeaways from the December oral arguments in the Trump Justice Department’s bid to the Supreme Court to invalidate multi-member “independent agencies,” were unanimous: It was a big win for Trump and for legal conservatives’ decades-long drive to …
Jan 2, 2026, 11:00 AM
Trump Is Ready to Send Afghan Refugees to Their Death
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, The New Republic
Five years ago, they risked their lives to support American troops in Afghanistan. Now, refugees across the U.S. are facing the threat of certain death thanks to ICE.Some 100,000 Afghans resettled in America, repayment for assisting the U.S. government during…
Jan 1, 2026, 11:00 AM
How the Supreme Court’s Judicial Sanewashing Wrecked the Legal System
Erin M. Carr, The New Republic
Last fall, in the run-up to the presidential election, a new phrase began to circulate. “Sanewashing” emerged as a term to describe the media’s coverage of Donald Trump, which critics claimed made the rambling, often incoherent statements of the then-wannabe …
Jan 1, 2026, 11:00 AM
Did Homeland Security Just Violate the First Amendment on Christmas?
Edith Olmsted, The New Republic
The Department of Homeland Security’s tasteless holiday shitposting may have just violated the United States Constitution. The federal agency’s official X account published multiple posts Thursday that appeared to violate the Establishment Clause, which prohi…
Dec 26, 2025, 8:46 PM
Thomas Massie Hits Back at Trump With Obvious Epstein Question
Edith Olmsted, The New Republic
Representative Thomas Massie torched Donald Trump’s pathetic swipe at him in his outrageous Christmas post. The president posted a special Christmas message Thursday addressed to “the many Sleazebags who loved Jeffrey Epstein,” and congratulated himself for “…
Dec 26, 2025, 7:30 PM
Trump Tries to Save His Disaster Peace Deals at Mar-a-Lago
Malcolm Ferguson, The New Republic
President Trump is holding two emergency summits next week at his Mar-a-Lago estate—first with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and then with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—in a supposed effort to stop two wars he’s failed to end.Axios repor…
Dec 26, 2025, 5:38 PM
Epstein Survivor Calls Out Trump as He Spirals Over Epstein
Edith Olmsted, The New Republic
A survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse torched President Donald Trump’s outrageous message on the alleged sex trafficker.Trump, who reportedly had an intimate friendship with Epstein, posted a special Christmas message Thursday addressed to “the many Sleazebag…
Dec 26, 2025, 5:08 PM
ICE Agents Violently Detain Black Pastor on Christmas Eve
Malcolm Ferguson, The New Republic
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ by aggressively detaining a pastor. Multiple agents in tactical gear can be seen in a video arguing with a man in his car on a video taken on Christmas Eve in Lewiston, Maine. “…
Dec 26, 2025, 4:53 PM
Republican Lawmaker Brags About Beating Up Santa in Weird Photos
Malcolm Ferguson, The New Republic
Indiana Senate Majority Floor Leader Chris Garten celebrated Christmas by posting AI-generated images of himself violently attacking Santa Claus in front of the Indiana Statehouse. “When you find out the North Pole is trying to bring more bureaucratic overrea…
Dec 26, 2025, 4:03 PM
Kennedy Center Honors Ratings Tank Like Never Before Thanks to Trump
Edith Olmsted, The New Republic
The reviews of Donald Trump’s takeover of Kennedy Center Honors are in, and it’s official: The president shouldn’t quit his day job just yet. Trump had asked his fans Tuesday to let him know what they made of his stint as “Master of Ceremonies” for the yearly…
Dec 26, 2025, 3:59 PM
Trump Spent This Christmas Having His Most Deranged Meltdown Yet
Edith Olmsted, The New Republic
What’s Grandpa Trump’s version of telling stories by the fire on Christmas? It seems to be unleashing a flurry of more than 100 posts on Truth Social lying, complaining, and congratulating himself. In the early hours of Thursday, Trump published a torrent of …
Dec 26, 2025, 2:35 PM
Nigeria Clarifies What Really Happened With Trump’s Airstrikes
Malcolm Ferguson, The New Republic
The Nigerian government took the time to debunk President Trump’s claims of Christian genocide in Nigeria after he announced the bombing of Africa’s most populous (and most oil-rich) nation. “The United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISI…
Dec 26, 2025, 2:14 PM
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