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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…

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…

In the coming days, some 200 million people across the United States will sweat through temperatures in the high 90s and triple digits, made worse by “oppressive” humidity. It’s the country’s first major heat wave of the year, which may—like last…

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…

Donald Trump doubled down Friday on his claim that Tulsi Gabbard is wrong about Iran’s supposed nuclear capabilities. After disembarking Air Force One in Morristown, New Jersey, the president played dumb when confronted with a major discrepancy between his…

Supreme Court justices typically play a more backbencher role in their first few terms on the court while they learn the institution’s rhythms and habits. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson seems to be a quicker learner than most. In a dissenting opinion on…

Mahmoud Khalil is finally being released from ICE custody, more than three months after he was detained for his involvement in Columbia University’s pro-Palestine protests.  In a hearing Friday, U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz found that Khalil did not…

Donald Trump, ever the sore loser, wants a special prosecutor to investigate the 2020 election, which he lost by more than seven million popular votes.“Biden was grossly incompetent, and the 2020 election was a total FRAUD! The evidence is MASSIVE and…

In a desperate attempt to exonerate himself of drug use allegations, Elon Musk actually just doxxed himself. Last month, there were multiple reports detailing Musk’s rampant drug use throughout Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, which were published…

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan slammed a decision Friday that empowers the courts to ignore federal agencies by undermining agencies’ authority to interpret their own statutes. In a 6–3 decision along ideological lines in McLaughlin v. McKesson, the…

I’ve been just staggered this week…

Donald Trump threatened to send the National Guard to other American cities after a major legal win in California’s case against him. A three-judge federal appeals court panel sided Thursday night with Trump over California Governor Gavin Newsom, who…

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 20 episode of the Daily 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.President…

The war on terror never ended. It simply evolved into a series of forever wars humming in the background. With never-ending conflict in the Middle East normalized, it’s all too easy to stumble into a new Middle East war.Over the past week, President Donald…

Despite the extremely stiff…

When Mia’s son was an infant, she understood the expectations she would need to meet: A poor single mother living in Capistrano Beach, California, she had to care for his welfare and try to maintain a steady income, while also navigating the stigma that…

The year 2025 has produced a proliferation of essay collections by millennial women taking stock of the frenetic moment in which they came of age. Before Alice Bolin’s survey of early-aughts nostalgia, Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse, there was…

Right now, the only thing that’s preventing Donald Trump from going full dictator is the federal court system and our ability to challenge his unlawful, unconstitutional behavior in it. Republicans in the Senate think they have a fix for that, though. It’s…

President Trump is furious over a new poll from Fox News, and understandably so. It finds his approval upside down, with 54 percent disapproving. His standing is deeply underwater on many major issues—and remarkably, that includes immigration. So he erupted…

The Los Angeles Dodgers blocked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from entering their stadium on Thursday, as Donald Trump escalates his crackdown on immigrants in the city of angels.“This morning, ICE agents came to Dodger Stadium and requested…

The Trump administration has found a new way to block Democrats from highlighting the reportedly appalling conditions at ICE facilities: flout the law.The Department of Homeland Security is imposing new restrictions on visits that members of Congress and their…

The Trump administration is reportedly considering nuking Iran.The Guardian on Wednesday claimed that the U.S. military has reservations regarding the success of using a bunker-buster bomb, a nonnuclear weapon, to eliminate Iran’s Fordo nuclear facility,…

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said she wouldn’t “engage in hypotheticals” when asked two major questions on Trump’s plans for Iran.First, she was asked whether Trump would circumvent Congress to strike Iran. “[If] the U.S. were to take…

The world is on edge waiting for Donald Trump to decide if he will order the U.S. military to attack Iran. And according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, everyone will have to wait a little longer—two weeks, to be exact.Leavitt revealed…

I keep glancing at the date to make sure it isn’t somehow 2003 again. Even though it reads 2025, there seem to be constant reminders of the disastrous mistakes that led up to the most catastrophic American foreign policy decision in recent memory, the war on…

Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security have claimed multiple times since May that there’s been a 413 percent increase in assaults against their agents to justify their officers wearing masks and refusing to identify…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants the Pentagon to tone any commemoration of Juneteenth way, way down, in keeping with his anti-diversity crusade.Hegseth’s office requested the Department of Defense take “a passive approach to Juneteenth messaging,”…

Donald Trump is using the powers of the presidency—augmented with powers that the Constitution doesn’t give him—to make war on blue states and their officials.There have been critical historical periods when presidents used federal law to enforce…

Donald Trump insists that Iran is on the brink of developing a nuclear weapon, despite repeated statements to the contrary from his own intelligence officials. But rather than listen, the U.S. president is twisting reality to suit his plans.The White House…

Two of the highest-ranking military Cabinet members have essentially been cut off as Trump teeters on the edge of joining Israel’s war on Iran, according to a report from The Washington Post.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Director of National…