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September 2, 2026
How freaked out should you be about Trump’s plot to disrupt mail voting?
On Tuesday, Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s office published an alarming report from an anonymous whistleblower about the USPS’s role in the 2026 midterms. The report suggests the US Postal Service is ru...
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August 31, 2026
Meet the “intellectual super influencers” of the new right
Aaron Renn was in a good mood. And that was fair: It’s not every day that you get labeled the No. 1 “intellectual super influencer” for a major swath of the Trump-era right. “It’s always good to ha...
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August 26, 2026
Nobody wants this trade war with Canada
LONDON, Ontario — President Donald Trump seems dead set on escalating his trade war with Canada. And no one is really sure why. On Monday, Trump threatened another round of 50 percent tariffs on to...
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August 19, 2026
The worst primary in America just ended
Rep. Randy Fine, the Republican running for reelection in Florida’s Sixth Congressional District, has unfavorably compared Muslims to dogs and suggested Israel should starve Gazans. “We need more I...
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August 13, 2026
The election deniers coming to a swing state near you
Tom Tiffany, the new Republican nominee for governor in Wisconsin, is not just a passive supporter of President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 presidential election. He is an active promoter of...
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July 27, 2026
Why the right is freaking out about “third worldism”
The American right has a new enemy. In a new report on Cuba, the State Department argued that Havana has become “the beating heart of a new and distinct kind of Marxism” — which the State Departmen...
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July 23, 2026
Did Trump just kill his own nuclear deal?
Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump has seemingly called off a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia after his energy secretary already formally signed it. What happened? On Wednesday, the Trump...
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July 21, 2026
Trump goes to (trade) war with Canada
Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump announced giant new tariffs on Canada, which are scheduled to start in 30 days. Now negotiators from both countries are scrambling to see if they can b...
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July 17, 2026
Trump’s election fraud speech was a weirdly good sign for American democracy
If you’re worried about American democracy, President Donald Trump’s primetime address should give you some hope. This might sound bizarre at first blush. Trump’s speech was full of lies, innuendo...
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July 15, 2026
Modi’s government brought Bollywood to heel. Hollywood should pay attention.
In 2023, the Indian director Honey Trehan was on the verge of a breakthrough. His film Punjab ’95, which told the story of a human rights activist murdered for investigating mass killings of Sikhs ...
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July 9, 2026
A new speech shows how Israel lost the Democratic party
This week, Rahm Emanuel — a chief of staff in the Obama White House and widely rumored 2028 candidate — went to Tel Aviv to deliver a stern message to the Israeli public: If Israel wants to keep Am...
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July 9, 2026
The Democrat everyone suddenly wants to believe in
For the past month, one name has dominated discussions of the 2028 Democratic primary: Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff. Though Ossoff is running for reelection in a crucial swing state, his consistent p...
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July 4, 2026
The late historian who rekindled my hope for America’s future
America’s 250th birthday celebration feels like a child’s birthday party ruined by fighting between two soon-to-be-divorced parents. What should be a benign celebration of shared, if slightly borin...
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June 30, 2026
Trump’s quest for untrammeled power just got a big boost
Just what President Donald Trump needed: more unchecked power. In the Supreme Court’s new Trump vs. Slaughter opinion, the court ruled that the president’s firing of the Federal Trade Commission’s...
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June 23, 2026
The shallow authoritarianism of Trump’s Reflecting Pool
What should one make of the president’s mounting obsession with the Reflecting Pool? On the surface, it’s ridiculous. Noting that the pool was full of algae and not reflecting as well as it should,...
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June 23, 2026
The fall of Britain’s prime minister is a warning for America
Since Donald Trump’s 2024 victory, the Democratic Party has been embroiled in a vicious internal conversation over “moderation.” One camp argues that the party has moved too far to the left on cult...
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June 22, 2026
The MAGA stars freaked out by their own movement
In 2017, US Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) offered what remains one of the most insightful explanations of Donald Trump’s rise from any elected official. Massie, a Tea Party libertarian in the Rand and ...
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