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Trump Is Already Undermining the Next Election

And the one after that, and the one after that. https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/trump-election-rules-changes/682394 An unfortunate reality now confronts Americans who value the rule of law: The court system has limited capability to act as a guardrail against Trumpist authoritarianism. And so elections matter—vitally. The final and most powerful check on Donald Trump has always been, and will…
Trump Is Gaslighting Us

Trump is an agent of chaos, and chaos has a human cost. https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/signalgate-trump-administration-messaging/682308 The first Trump administration began with a lie. On January 21, 2017, President Donald Trump’s then–press secretary, Sean Spicer, claimed that Trump had drawn the largest audience to ever witness a presidential inauguration. Photographs clearly showed that the assertion was false; Trump’s…
Anger at Elon Musk turns violent with molotov cocktails and gunfire at Tesla lots

The string of violence against Tesla storefronts, charging stations and vehicles exacerbates the company’s woes, analysts said. https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/08/elon-musk-tesla-protest-violence-vandalism The woman in the black hoodie walked onto the Tesla car lot prepared to inflict damage. She came with four Smirnoff Ice bottles filled with gasoline, flung them at electric vehicles parked around the dealership and watched…
Trump’s Affinity for Putin Grows More Consequential Than Ever

President Trump’s admiration for President Vladimir Putin of Russia has been endlessly dissected, but the American leader’s policy shifts since taking office again could have profound effects. https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/us/politics/trump-putin-russia.html President Trump signing an executive order in the Oval Office on Thursday, and Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, in a February photo provided by Russian state media.…
Donald Trump Just Proved He’s an Economic Idiot. Again.

His MAGA sycophants knew all along that his central economic proposal was a sham, but they repeated his lies. And now the economy is cracking. https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://newrepublic.com/post/192464/donald-trump-tariffs-flip-flop-economic-idiot Alex Wong/Getty Images Remember the word “sanewashing” from the 2024 presidential campaign? It referred to the mainstream media’s coverage of Donald Trump’s rallies, and their tendency to pluck out…
In just five days, Trump has set the country back nearly 100 years

The president’s new slogan might as well be “We were better off 95 years ago than we are today.” https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/03/04/trump-tariffs-ukraine-speech-congress-backward With a modesty we have come to expect of him, President Donald Trump informed Congress on Tuesday night that he had already ushered in “the greatest and most successful era in the history of our…
The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did

Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE’s Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn’t exist. https://www.wired.com/story/treasury-department-doge-marko-elez-access/?utm_content=buffer45aba&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=aud-dev US Treasury Department and White House officials have repeatedly denied that technologists associated with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)…