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Trump wants to make ICE bigger than the FBI

Round-up: Tariff Man is back. Russia sanctions. FBI infighting.

Trump v. MAGA

Musk's America Party is doomed

Round up: Musk deported? Ukraine denied Patriots. MAGA call for genocide.

The courts can no longer hold Trump to account

MAGA abuses its own rural base. Does the base care?

Round-up: A dismal NATO summit. Post-truth intelligence politics. New York state of politics.

Trump's contradictory Europe policy

Trump bombs Iran. What's next?

Round-up: Is the Resistance back? Trump and Iran. About that ICE reversal.

12 thoughts on Trump, Iran, and MAGA

Trump supporter assassinates Democratic lawmakers

Round-up: The Trump regime emerges. Iran-Israel war. And isn't that enough?

Is the civil war beginning?

Trump sends in the troops

Round-up: Trump-Musk break-up. Trump's Biden investigation. The deportation machine.

How Trump is blowing it with Xi

Hate AI hype? You still need to pay attention

Round-up: Tariff whiplash. How far Musk has fallen. Judges' security. Trump's military parade.

Talking trade, tech & DOGE with Jeff Le

Trump's inability to understand reality is dangerous

Round-up: Trump v. Harvard. Your Honour, you’re under arrest. U.S. troops out of South Korea? And more.

Transitional justice after Trump

Trump's Middle East "deals" are a sham

Round-up: Saudi Arabia First? Biden's poisonous legacy. The GOP's mega-bill.

Why DOGE failed

Trump's epic corruption

Round-up: UK's trade surrender. Trump's diplomatic mood swings. Spying on Greenland. State propaganda.

Trump is wrecking the European populist right

Farewell Waltz, farewell National Security Council?

Round-up: Ukraine's mythical minerals. Trump crashes the economy. Kamala Harris' comeback

America once had a dictator. Could it again?

20 thoughts on Trump's first 100 days

Round-up: MAGA comes for State. Public rejects Trump's abuses of power. The injunction malfunction.

Europe strikes back

J.D. Vance and the new MAGA Catholicism

Round-up: Trump's new economic apocalypse. Life on K2-18b? Republicans are scared for their lives. Jan 6th rioters want what now?

Is Cory Booker the rising star Democrats need?

Trump's deportations have echoes of slavery

Round-up: End of U.S. financial hegemony. The plan to get Greenland. Bills of Attainder are back.

Giving tariff power to Congress is no panacea

Trump's tariffs blow the Republican coalition in two

Round up: Has Hegseth gone native? Tariff Man strikes again. Trump sucks at politics.

Make America Great Depression Again

Dems bounce back with voters of color, win key race

Round-up: Signalgate fallout. Trump's socialism. Stefanik stiffed. U.S. threat assessment.

Shock swing state win for Democrats

8 takeaways from Trump's massive security breach

Round-up: The Supreme Court's weak slapdown. Tesla crony capitalism. Trump's new gulag. And more.

Democrats need better leadership

The constitutional crisis just began

Round-up: Political deportations. Tourists locked up. Shutdown averted. Gitmo latest.

Trump's designs on Canada show his Putin envy

Elon Musk and the racial politics of Social Security

Round-up: Ukraine intel. DOGE has its wings clipped. Trump and Canadian booze. The economy.

How liberals lost the culture wars

Trump's weakness invites imminent war

Round-up: DOGE backlash begins. Trump's incompetent lawyer. Government cuts and the next pandemic

Donald Trump, 9/11, and the rise of Military MAGA

Unpacking Trump's military purge

Round-up: Trump turns on Zelensky, Musk invades Fort Knox, and war with Mexico?

Trump isn't an isolationist. He's something much worse

What Trump really wants in Ukraine

Trump round-up: Ukraine, inflation, Red White and Blueland, and more

My fears about the MAGA-Silicon Valley alliance

Video chat on Trump's Gaza madness

Reminder: Live video chat on Trump and Gaza

Tuesday video chat on Trump and Gaza

Trump round up: Is he senile? Will he ignore the judges? Plus, the FBI and Congress

Democrats must remain the party of institutions

Trump's tariffs as dominance display

What is Elon Musk doing?

Trump round up: plummeting popularity, Tulsi Gabbard and MAGA, that plane crash, and bullying Colombia

Republicans just failed to defend the constitution from Trump

Trump sets about "starving the beast"

Trump round-up: Abortion, DOGE, Ukraine, and political violence

Trump scores a bipartisan win on immigration

Trump's scariest - and least-noticed - moves

Trump inauguration: 10 storylines to watch

The REAL problem with Pete Hegseth

U.S. Steel and TikTok: America's new industrial politics

Trump and the return of spheres of influence

Trump dithers on GOP legislative strategy

American history's many insurrections