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April 2025

Trump begins to reap a backlash of his own making
Betting his presidency on assertions of unbridled power on the international and national stages, Donald Trump is starting to learn that most people…
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Jim Carroll
As Hegseth flails, Democrats need to pin responsibility on the president who picked him
Pete Hegseth's reign of error at the Pentagon is a direct consequence of Trump choosing an incompetent defense secretary
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Jim Carroll
Trump's economic war on the world is based on a new Big Lie
Unable to confront the economic challenges his own party has helped create, the president proposes nonsense solutions to punish MAGA's enemies
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Jim Carroll
MAGA's Wounded Masculinity
The Cult of Trump is rooted in fascism's gender anxieties
Published on Small Precautions • 
Extremist tariff regime is the latest phase of Trump's war on America
The president is sociopathically indifferent to the potential for mass suffering, so long as the end result is more power for him
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Jim Carroll
Trump administration responds to Signal chat scandal with menace, further incompetence
The inclusion of a journalist in a national security chat is the first scandal of the Trump administration to receive sustained media attention, and…
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Jim Carroll

March 2025

The ‘cancel culture’ myth was always about censoring the center-to-left
Author and podcaster Adrian Daub on how the American far-right created a panic that it’s using to destroy free speech
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Matthew Sheffield
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Trump's maple leaf rag sounds increasingly discordant
Is the president simply psychologically unable to comprehend that Canadians are actual human beings with their own ideas about how they want to be…
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Jim Carroll
Trump and his allies threaten America as we know it, but they are acting from a position of weakness, not strength
A closer look at the goals of Trumpism can help us get perspective and devise strategies that aim straight at its vulnerabilities
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Jim Carroll
Politicizing Science: The National Institutes for Health
A merit-based and competitive process will be politicized - or eliminated
Published on Can We Still Govern? • 
The ‘Pick Me’ mindset and childhood trauma
Women who degrade other women usually do so as an unintentional protective measure
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Vudu Dahl
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