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For our latest cover story, we collaborated with @ColumbiaSpec , tasking some of the student reporters, writers, editors, and photographers at the forefront of protest coverage to revisit the events that started it all.
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A new poll found @AOC 's proposed tax plan to be "popular in all regions of the country"
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This may have been the Trumpiest moment of the last four years. Writes @jonathanchait : "He was siding with a foreign dictator against his own country. He was shirking blame. He was acting very, very stupid while thinking he was smart."
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"He wants to lose," says a friend of President Trump. "He’s out of money. He worries about being arrested. He worried about being assassinated. It hasn’t been a great experience for him." @Olivianuzzi reports on election week at the White House
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Rudy Giuliani has been working with Andriy Derkach, an active Russian agent, to smear Joe Biden. Giuliani’s reason for not suspecting Derkach as a Russian agent is that he didn’t tell him he was a Russian agent. @jonathanchait writes
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Donald Trump is not only losing his job but quite possibly everything else. @jonathanchait writes
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Rev. William J. Barber II was arrested for protesting on behalf of higher minimum wages in front of McDonald’s corporate headquarters at about the same time as he learned he had been awarded a MacArthur “genius grant”
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In case you’ve forgotten what the Trump presidency was like, it was basically this, every day
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A private poll fielded by Kanye West’s campaign early in the process found that the rapper would receive 1 percent of the vote nationally and hurt Trump more than he hurt Biden, @bencjacobs reports
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Trump's former White House valet – the man who had to respond every time the president pressed his famous Oval Office Diet Coke button – provided key evidence that led to the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago in August. @_NYMarg writes
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"What's a guy up in New York have to do with Homeland Security?" Greene asked, oblivious to history and geography
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"The contrast, I think, isn’t only between what it feels like in a hot spot and in a place like this, but between what it feels like inside a hospital and literally anywhere else," notes @PeteButtigieg about coronavirus perceptions
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Elon Musk Have Been A Little Too Antisemitic This Time. Apple, IBM, and others have pulled ads from X after Musk endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy suggesting Jews ‘push hatred’ against white people. The White House also condemned Musk.
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“You are doing nothing,” said Beto O’Rourke, interrupting Governor Greg Abbott during a press conference on Wednesday. “You’re offering us nothing. You said this is not predictable. This is totally predictable.”
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Gas prices have now fallen 41 days in a row, and are plummeting this week in particular
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E. Jean Carroll’s legal team alleges Trump defamed the columnist when he railed against her successful civil case during a CNN town hall
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Donald Trump all but confessed that he hired Matt Whitaker to stop the “illegal” Mueller probe. @jonathanchait writes
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Trump's election has already had real-world consequences for many Americans, especially the most vulnerable
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After a year of smear campaigns, fake private intelligence agencies, and using his mom’s phone to spread his Mueller hoax, the 21-year-old is now facing a felony charge in California
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Jeff Sessions’s departure, and his replacement with Mark Whitaker, is Trump’s plan to corrupt the Department of Justice. It's the most dire threat to the republic since Trump’s election itself, writes @jonathanchait
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Donald Trump’s lawyer rambled through a hilariously incoherent impeachment defense at the former president's Senate trial Tuesday
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After the Commission on Presidential Debates announced that the next debate would be virtual, President Trump said he wouldn't participate
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There is no economic theory that justifies the tax bill currently moving through the Senate, writes @EricLevitz
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According to a new report, President Trump has at times told some of his advisers that he will refuse to leave the White House on January 20
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There's no empirical evidence that @BernieSanders is unelectable:
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Florida School Shooting Survivors Will Lead Nationwide Demonstration
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Texts from Hunter Biden reportedly show that in 2019 the president’s son threatened to withhold back pay from a legal assistant unless she had sex with him on FaceTime
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"This political stunt may have some appeal to those who preach law and order, but not to those who practice it," argues @BarbMcQuade
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More than four months into his administration, Joe Biden is shaping up to be the first president to escape serious vilification from his opponents in at least 30 years. @gdebenedetti writes
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Rick Scott’s threat to Social Security and Medicare has damaged Republicans so badly that even Mitch McConnell seems ready to give up on his seat. @ed_kilgore writes
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Legal luminary J. Michael Luttig convinced Mike Pence not to join Donald Trump’s election coup. Now he says Republicans are perfecting the tactics they used in 2020
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Ida broke New York City's record for the most rain ever in an hour, which was set less than two weeks ago during Tropical Storm Henri
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The Republican Party Establishment has been trying to starve Trump of oxygen. It’s not going well. @jonathanchait writes
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Ben Carson defends himself against allegations that he never attempted to murder a child:
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. @AWeissmann_ on the legacy of the Mueller investigation at its two-year anniversary and why it's critical for the Manhattan DA to flip Donald Trump's accountant
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Mueller Investigation Into Facebook Ads May Be a Very Big Deal
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This isn’t the first time observers thought the GOP was facing an existential crisis from which it might not recover. But there are important differences between the end of Richard Nixon's presidency and the end of Donald Trump's. @ed_kilgore writes
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When it comes to enforcing zoning regulations in one of the nation’s wealthiest zip codes, expect the neighbors to play hardball
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Yes, that was Trump trying to prove he isn't sexist by explaining he actually thinks Fiorina is very pretty.
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The raid is an extraordinary measure: Giuliani served as Trump’s lawyer as president and prosecutors have a high bar for going after an attorney over work he might have done for a client
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"He wants to lose," says a friend of President Trump. "He’s out of money. He worries about being arrested. He worried about being assassinated. It hasn’t been a great experience for him." @Olivianuzzi reports on election week at the White House
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In 1992, thousands of furious, drunken cops descended on City Hall to rage against David Dinkins. @nahmias reports on how the riot was a formative experience for two future mayors — and the city’s likely next mayor, too
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Questioning the current orthodoxy is not transphobic, as so many reflexively charge, and what we need is an open debate about what’s best for gender dysphoric children and teens, writes @sullydish
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MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell walked into the West Wing holding what looks like a plan for a coup. One of the people named tells @bencjacobs he has no idea what's going on
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The conservative fever Barack Obama thought might soon break is now instilling systemic belief in conspiracies on the right. @ed_kilgore writes
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New York City regulators hit the Kushner family real-estate company with a $210,000 fine this week, after finding that the firm routinely falsified construction applications
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"Trump fears a “redo,” i.e., Mueller having the chance to summarize his own work, rather than having his loyal attorney general do it for him," writes @jonathanchait
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Brett Kavanaugh’s many lies about small questions mean he’s probably lying about the big question, writes @jonathanchait
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Federal agents executed a search warrant on the Manhattan apartment of Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday morning as part of a Justice Department investigation into his dealings in Ukraine
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Omicron data from South Africa is no longer all that tentative, and it is very, very encouraging, says @BallouxFrancois . But he says it's still too early to safely project the experience in that country onto others
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Noted bibliophobe Donald Trump, who reportedly has difficulty reading even brief summaries on notecards, claims to have read Bob Woodward’s 466-page book in one night
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The latest key-state polls show some not-great news for President Trump
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President Trump says he "will be asking for a major investigation" into voter fraud
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Jen O’Malley Dillon is getting blasted for speaking the truth about the opposition, even as she pledges to seek their cooperation, because she swore
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Meet Danica Roem, Virginia’s first transgender candidate for state legislature
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Donald Trump says he's already made a decision about 2024. The only question left in his mind is when he’ll announce his run. @Olivianuzzi reports
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Joe Biden is currently ahead in enough states to make him president if he wins them — and the composition of the uncounted votes strongly positions Biden to expand his Electoral College lead
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The Mehmet Oz campaign staged an event at which he consoled a woman — who was actually a paid staffer — whose family members were killed in a shooting. @MatthewStieb writes
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By including Hunter Biden speaking fondly of his brother’s memory and his father’s future, the #DemConvention presented him as an actual person, rather than a Fox News caricature
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. @AOC says she’s been vindicated about Joe Manchin and that President Biden must go it alone to save their party in the fall. @errollouis reports
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Lawyers for E. Jean Carroll, who says that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in 1996, demanded a DNA sample from the president on Thursday
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"It’s just like walking on the beach. Most of the time you see rocks or seashells, but every now and then you see a plastic bottle that is artificially made. This could be junk like that."
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Two mothers turn in their sons after Brooklyn gang rape:
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The Florida governor is trying to out-authoritarian Trump.
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In the latest episode of ‘On With Kara Swisher,’ Kara talks with famed attorney Roberta Kaplan about the E. Jean Carroll verdict, Trump’s appeal chances, and how to drive the former president insane.
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Having blundered into a government shutdown, President Trump has three plausible options to end it. He's refusing all three. @jonathanchait writes
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Viktor Orban identified schools and universities as a source of dissent, and set out to seize ideological control by placing his allies in charge. Ron DeSantis is doing the exact same thing in Florida. @jonathanchait writes
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Federal agents reportedly seized electronic devices as part of a Justice Department investigation into Giuliani's dealings in Ukraine, which involved efforts to dig up dirt on Joe Biden to benefit Donald Trump in the 2020 election
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Panagis Galiastatos, a pulmonary and critical-care physician at Johns Hopkins, notes that Trump being administered remdesivir means he is already suffering from a “moderate” or “severe” case of COVID-19
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President Obama becomes "consoler-in-chief’ again, calls Orlando "an act of hate":
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Anti-vaccine activists are inciting violence against their foes, experts say.
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Nikki Haley wants to impose a five-year “term limit” on federal employees. The idea is even worse than Donald Trump’s plan to gut the federal government.
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NFTs weren’t just something @garyvee could collect; they were, he says, the culmination of all the themes in his career. @benjwallace reports
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Trump's attitudes about women are no different from the attitudes supported by the GOP via their legislative agenda
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Donald Trump, who has suggested on many occasions that people who invoke their right against self-incrimination are guilty, took the Fifth on Wednesday
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“Five years to build and two seconds to go down!” yelled one onlooker as Atlantic City's Trump Plaza was imploded Wednesday. @Olivianuzzi reports
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A group of bright Sarah Lawrence undergrads fell under the sway of a classmate’s conspiracy-minded father. @ezra_marc and @MrJDWalsh report on Larry Ray, and the students who came under his spell
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No politician's response to the mass shootings in Texas and Ohio was as cathartic or relatable as Beto O'Rourke uttering "What the f**k?"
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"Eric Adams, the allegedly vegan mayor of New York City, eats fish."
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"The cynics who are knowingly leading their followers into harm’s way are complicit in an atrocity." @EricLevitz writes
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Andrew Sullivan hasn't been on Twitter lately, but you can find all of his thoughts on tonight's debate right here:
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In the deep south, Bernie Sanders found an audience of black voters receptive to his updated critique of class and race disparity. @briebriejoy reports
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A little more than three weeks before the election, potentially contagious and freaking everybody out, Trump faces what looks like the end of his presidency. @Olivianuzzi reports from inside the White House circus
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Trump is openly mocking constitutional constraints on the presidency even as he abuses his office — and it's prompted only indifference among Republicans and exhaustion among Democrats. @sullydish writes
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Sanders offers one reason why the U.S. needs to invest more in mental health. #DemDebate
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Economist @elerianm thinks a (self-inflicted) recession is coming. He spoke with @jenwieczner about how bad it's likely to be and what he’s doing with his money now. (Spoiler: He’s not buying Bitcoin.)
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The right seems to have believed their own propaganda about what Robert Mueller had (and had not) found. @jonathanchait writes
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President Trump's most dangerous and authoritarian act is hiding in plain sight. @jonathanchait writes on how he's turned the power of the state into a weapon of intimidation against the free press
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No one can predict posterity’s judgments, but if the past is any guide at all, this is not going to end well for Trump’s collaborators. @frankrichny writes
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Yuh-Line Niou may run on the Working Families Party line against Dan Goldman in November's tenth congressional district election
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Preet Bharara was reportedly investigating Health Secretary Tom Price's stock trades before being fired by Trump
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"In its most heightened state, Trumpism granted license to followers to indulge desires most adults are compelled to hold in check — the desire to live a fantasy, to be 'presidential' in a cinematic, superhero way." @rkgar writes
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The Kentucky Democratic Party has made $500,000 in two weeks selling "Moscow Mitch" merch. @adamkraymond reports
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Written off for dead by many after falling 90 percent, Bitcoin is back at all time highs. Believe it or not, a lot has changed, explains @nic__carter
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What is happening inside the Supreme Court is not the triumph of the American people but rather the success of a well-funded minoritarian faction. @onesarahjones writes
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Jamison Bachman wasn’t a typical squatter. Rather, he seemed to relish the anguish of those who had taken him in without realizing that they would soon be pulled into a terrifying battle for their home
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"As he gazes down at the likes of Graham, Cruz, Rubio, and Carson nestled comfortably at his feet, why wouldn’t Trump conclude that his bullying works?" @jonathanchait writes
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Each new revelation about Brian Kemp’s conduct as Georgia's secretary of State further exposes him as one of America’s premier subverters of the democratic process. @zakcheneyrice writes
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