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Is Barack Obama secretly running the Biden administration?
No, no he is not
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Andrew Gawthorpe
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Round-up: The Trump regime emerges. Iran-Israel war. And isn't that enough?
Your analysis of the week's descent into madness
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Andrew Gawthorpe
Trump round up: plummeting popularity, Tulsi Gabbard and MAGA, that plane crash, and bullying Colombia
Your guide to this week's important news
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Andrew Gawthorpe
Trump isn't an isolationist. He's something much worse
He wants to transform Europe, not leave it
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Andrew Gawthorpe
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Why DOGE failed
It was a crime, but not a particularly successful one
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Andrew Gawthorpe
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How liberals lost the culture wars
On race, religion, and gender, they're on the defensive
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Andrew Gawthorpe
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Round up: Has Hegseth gone native? Tariff Man strikes again. Trump sucks at politics.
Analysis of the week's events
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Andrew Gawthorpe
J.D. Vance and the new MAGA Catholicism
The attempted Trump-ification of the Church
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Andrew Gawthorpe
Round-up: Trump turns on Zelensky, Musk invades Fort Knox, and war with Mexico?
Another week in Trumpworld
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Andrew Gawthorpe
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8 takeaways from Trump's massive security breach
It opened his foreign policy process up to the light
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Andrew Gawthorpe
4
Trump round-up: Ukraine, inflation, Red White and Blueland, and more
Your guide to this week's important news
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Andrew Gawthorpe
The polls are getting downright weird
Could it be caused by racial depolarization?
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Andrew Gawthorpe
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