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“We’re middle-aged,” podcaster Jennifer Welch says of herself and…

Iran may be closer to a revolutionary moment than at any point since 1979—but it is not yet in a revolutionary transition. The mistake many observers make is to treat visible unrest as evidence of imminent collapse. History suggests otherwise. Cycles of…

In much of rural Wisconsin, manure is everywhere. It’s in the ground, the drinking water, and the air communities breathe. The state is home to more than 300 Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) that produce billions of pounds of manure every year.…

In 2025, Donald Trump scared people. And institutions. Go back in your mind to way he came out of the gate, gunning the accelerator on every front. Pardoning the insurrectionists. Dismantling the executive branch. Firing inspectors general and heads and…

My teenager and I were a block from the intersection where Renee…

Last week, President Trump unleashed an angry tirade over anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis, threatening to invoke the “INSURRECTION ACT” against “professional agitators and insurrectionists,” i.e., ordinary people. On Friday, Trump seemed to suggest he…

When scientists and regulators need clear answers to health risks—such…

Days into the new year, as stuffed suit Tony Dokoupil was readying to take the helm as the new anchor of the CBS Evening News, the network rolled out a much-mocked set of five guiding principles that went heavy on the sort of pseudo-intellectual fluff that’s…

Nomenclature is potent. Donald Trump loves a nickname, and there is power in naming things. Once a thing has a name, it can be categorized, judged, explained, and perhaps satirized and belittled. Over the last decade, Trump has had wild success with giving…

For as long as Donald Trump has deployed his ICE brownshirts in the “Democrat” cities he so despises, Americans have been out in the streets, confronting his masked goons and making sure the rest of the world sees what’s going on. One of the first…

A year ago, Donald Trump was riding high. The man who had lost the presidency four years earlier, then led a failed insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was now about to be inaugurated again after improbably winning a nonconsecutive second term. Almost everyone…

Following American politics these days forces one to read a dizzying array of bizarre social media posts by President Donald Trump and other members of the Trump administration. Some of them are worthy of news coverage; most aren’t. But there was one on…

Virginia’s Democratic-controlled legislature just got one step closer to victory in the battle against Donald Trump’s gerrymandering scheme.The commonwealth’s Senate passed an amendment Friday that would allow the state to redraw its congressional map…

A Reagan-appointed federal judge says the Trump administration’s targeting of pro-Palestinian activists is an “unconstitutional conspiracy.”U.S. District Judge William Young, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1985, criticized Trump’s…

A majority of Americans said that President Donald Trump’s first year back in office was a failure, according to a humiliating CNN poll published Friday. No kidding.Fifty-eight percent of Americans called Trump’s first year a failure, according to the…

In a startling development, some of President Trump’s advisers have suddenly realized that unleashing heavily armed government militias on American cities to terrorize American citizens with abandon just might be a tad unpopular with Americans.Yep, it’s…

It seems that Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado’s ultimate show of fealty to President Trump will get her nothing.Machado met with Trump on Thursday and brought along her Nobel Peace Prize, offering it to the president. It was clearly a…

Barely two weeks into the new year, Americans…

At least six high-profile congressional Republicans have voiced their staunch opposition to President Trump’s desire to take over Greenland.“I’ll be candid with you: There’s so many Republicans mad about this,” Nebraska Representative Don Bacon told…

Fox News host Laura Ingraham used a deceitfully edited clip of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey in order to push the lie that he wants the police to take up arms against ICE officers.Speaking about Frey’s press conference following yet another shooting involving…

A 6-month-old baby was hospitalized after federal law enforcement agents in Minneapolis struck a car full of children with a flash bang, before flooding it with tear gas. Parents Shawn and Destiny Jackson told Kare11 that they were driving their six children…

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Renee Good was still alive when ICE agents were blocking a physician from tending to her.New records from emergency responders obtained by The New York Times show that Good was not breathing but had an irregular pulse when local medics arrived at the scene,…

It looks like Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado traded her Nobel Peace Prize for a bag of Donald Trump merch.Machado was spotted walking out of the White House Thursday with a large red paper bag with Trump’s signature scrawled across it.This…

It appears that ICE choked a 55-year-old Cuban immigrant to death in a Texas detention facility.A medical examiner told Geraldo Lunas Campos’s family that, unless a toxicology report comes back with something, he will likely rule his death a homicide,…

Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. At a press briefing on Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt repeatedly lost her temper with reporters.…

This is a lightly edited transcript of the January 16 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack.Perry Bacon: I’m Perry Bacon. I’m the host of The New Republic show Right Now. I’m…

Elizabeth Warren gave an excellent speech January 12 (text; video) urging Democrats not “to sand down our edges to avoid offending anyone, especially the rich and powerful who might finance our candidates.… When Democrats water down their economic platform…

You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can view a transcript here. President Trump has sometimes been described as antiwar or isolationist. That’s totally wrong, says Matt Duss,…

“Matters of great concern should be treated lightly,” intones the eponymous hero of Jim Jarmusch’s sublime Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, about a New York City hit man who has styled himself as a sort of time-warped expatriate of feudal Japan. He…