IRS Strikes Unprecedented Deal With ICE on Undocumented Immigrants
On Monday, the Internal Revenue Service agreed to start sharing tax data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to help the Trump administration find and deport undocumented immigrants, according to...
View ArticlePro-Israel Group Asks Pam Bondi to Investigate YouTube Star Ms. Rachel
The right-wing StopAntisemitism group thinks that children’s YouTube educator Ms. Rachel should be investigated by Attorney General Pam Bondi for “pro-Hamas propaganda.”The New York Post reports that...
View ArticlePress Secretary Says Trump Wasn’t Joking About Deporting U.S. Citizens
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt waffled Tuesday when asked about Donald Trump’s threat to deport U.S. citizens to foreign prisons. During a press briefing, Leavitt was asked to explain...
View ArticleTrump’s Tariffs Are Already Destroying Small U.S. Businesses
Small-business owners are already feeling the effects of Donald Trump’s tariff scheme that he claims will boost American manufacturing and bring jobs back to the United States.Many have flocked to...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Rewards Trump’s Defiance
The Supreme Court handed a major victory to the Trump administration in its efforts to carry out mass deportations. In a 5–4 vote in Trump v. J.G.G., the justices lifted a temporary injunction against...
View ArticleTrump Press Secretary Says Everyone Is Lying About Hating the Tariffs
The Trump administration is desperately trying to save its image as the president’s reciprocal tariff scheme tanks global markets and sparks fear of a recession.“Everybody in Washington, whether they...
View ArticleSotomayor’s Harsh Dissent on Trump Arrests Offers a Terrifying Warning
The fate of dozens of Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration to a maximum security prison in El Salvador remains in doubt. So does the fate of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who administration...
View ArticleThe Trump Resistance Is Here—Whether Democrats Want It or Not
As President Trump addressed the 2024 World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers at the White House on Monday, he broke from his prepared remarks to single out the baseball team’s star shortstop....
View ArticleWhat Republicans Don’t Want You to Know About Private High-Speed Rail
In late February, Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy—dutifully doing his boss’s bidding—announced an investigation into the California High-Speed Rail Authority’s use of a $3.1 billion federal...
View ArticleThe Best “New” Idea for Middle East Peace? It’s 25 Years Old.
On February 4, President Donald Trump came up with one of his trademark tremendous ideas. Vacate the entire Gaza Strip and turn it into the Las Vegas Strip. Here was the agent of chaos, a.k.a. the...
View ArticleTranscript: Sotomayor’s Harsh New Dissent Contains One Terrifying Line
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the April 9 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by...
View ArticleChina Hits Back at Trump’s Tariffs in Major Retaliation
China has announced that it will retaliate against Donald Trump’s tariffs by raising its own tariffs on U.S. goods from 34 percent to 84 percent, in response to Trump’s own tariff hike on...
View ArticleEU Targets Republican States With Tariffs in Trump Payback
The European Union has responded to Trump’s trade war with tariffs of their own that deliberately target red states.The European Commission on Wednesday greenlit tariffs of up to 25 percent on...
View ArticleTrump Reveals Real Reason He’s Doubling Down on Disastrous Tariffs
President Donald Trump’s disastrous tariffs were never anything more than a power trip.During a speech Tuesday night at the National Republican Congressional Committee Dinner in Washington, Trump...
View ArticleRepublican Senator Urges Trump to Take Deals Over Tariffs
Everyone has started to feel the tariff pain. In a town hall hosted by Fox News’s Sean Hannity on Tuesday, Senator John Kennedy said that he hopes Donald Trump “takes a deal” in order to reduce the...
View ArticleMAGA Turns Against Trump as Tariffs Kick In
Some of Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters are expressing dread and alarm as the president’s tariff policy continues to throttle the stock market and hurt their own pockets. Last weekend, DOGE...
View ArticleICE Chief Suggests Copying Amazon Prime for Trump’s Mass Deportations
If Donald Trump’s mass deportations weren’t already dystopian enough, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement says he wants to make them look like Amazon Prime.Todd Lyons made the...
View ArticleTrump Insists Things Are Fine as Countries Retaliate to Tariffs
President Donald Trump counseled everyone to stay “cool” Wednesday following a disturbing escalation in his global trade war.“BE COOL! Everything is going to work out well. The USA will be bigger and...
View ArticleFox Host Grills Trump Treasury Sec. for Downplaying Recession Odds
A recession is all perspective, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.The economic adviser attempted to convince Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo Wednesday that business executives she spoke with...
View ArticleTrump’s Approval Rating Quickly Plummets Among Young People
A new poll from Economist/YouGov released Wednesday shows that Donald Trump’s approval rating has dropped from +5 to -29 points among voters under 30 since his inauguration, a 34-point tumble. Trump...
View ArticleJustice Department Lawyers Ditch Rather Than Defend Trump in Court
The lawyers tasked with defending the Trump administration at the Supreme Court are fleeing in droves.The Washington Post reports that half of the attorneys in the Office of the Solicitor General in...
View ArticleCognitive Decline? Trump Goes on Bizarre Rant About His Enemies
The U.S. economy is cratering, the White House has fractured some of the country’s longest-standing global alliances, and foreign nations are marking the end of American economic dominance. But...
View ArticleICE Deportee’s Lawyers Slam Trump DOJ’s Case as “Devoid” of Facts
Lawyers for a man mistakenly deported to El Salvador slammed the Department of Justice for trying to claim that the foreign country could have its own reasons for keeping him in prison.Kilmar Abrego...
View ArticleTrump Backs Off Most of His Dumb Tariffs—but What’s Left Is Still Bad
Donald Trump has placed a 90-day pause on most of his reciprocal tariffs, despite repeatedly insisting that no such pause would take place. “Based on the fact that more than 75 Countries have called...
View ArticleFund Managers Worry Trump Might Be “Insane”
As Donald Trump’s tariff plan slams the stock market, investors are beginning to wonder if the president doesn’t have some broader economic agenda—but rather if he’s just mentally ill.“In the last few...
View ArticleTrump’s Team Has No Idea What to Say About His Sudden Tariffs Reversal
Donald Trump’s reversal on tariffs Wednesday afternoon seems to have caught his administration off guard.The president announced on Truth Social that tariffs would return to a baseline 10 percent level...
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Trump Hilariously Roasted for Suddenly Walking Back Tariffs
Donald Trump is once again the laughingstock of the internet after his shocking decision Wednesday to issue a 90-day pause on some of his sweeping tariffs—with the exception of China—after the White...
View ArticleTrump’s Tariffs Whiplash Is Open Corruption. He Admitted It Himself.
Trump may have accidentally confessed to insider trading and market manipulation on Truth Social. “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT,” the president wrote on Wednesday, a mere four hours before...
View ArticleTrump’s Homeland Security Ramps Up Surveillance of Legal Immigrants
The Trump administration is now going to screen immigrants’ social media as grounds for denying immigration benefits, including international students and people applying for permanent residency.The...
View ArticleHere’s the Moment Trump’s Trade Rep. Learned the Tariffs Were Paused
Many were surprised Wednesday by Donald Trump’s decision to put a 90-day pause on a majority of his sweeping tariffs on other countries (with the exception of China), but only one person was in the...
View Article“Trump Is Backing Down Again”: Hakeem Jeffries Mocks Tariff Flip-Flop
President Donald Trump’s tariff chaos continues. He just announced a big reversal: For 90 days, the reciprocal tariffs will come down, but a universal 10 percent tariff will remain—and he’s hiking...
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There’s Still More to Learn About Anne Frank
To take on a subject that has been extensively written about requires a degree of both daring and ambition in an author. When I started to read The Many Lives of Anne Frank by Ruth Franklin, I thought...
View ArticleThe Sick Psychology Behind Trump’s Tariff Chaos
President Donald Trump brought the stock market to the edge of a bear market (i.e., a sustained 20 percent drop) by imposing ridiculously high tariffs indiscriminately around the globe. That was so...
View ArticleTrump’s Tariffs May Hit Gamers Especially Hard
Earlier this month, the news fell upon the gaming community like a hammer: The Nintendo Switch 2, the hotly anticipated new console set to launch on June 5, would be priced at $449.99. This would make...
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Trump’s Own Aides Keep Him in State of Delusion About Tariff Fiasco
President Trump’s top allies and advisers know that when the going gets tough, the way to keep Trump from flying entirely off the rails is to slather him with unctuous flattery. “Everybody in...
View ArticleTranscript: Trump Tariff Cave Actually Reveals Weakness, Jeffries Says
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the April 10 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by...
View ArticleTrump’s Kicks Off Retribution Tour With New Order Targeting Critics
Donald Trump is taking revenge against two officials from his first term. On Wednesday, the president issued directives stripping the security clearances of Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor and ordering...
View ArticleCognitive Decline? Trump Appears to Have No Clue What’s Happening
Donald Trump claimed that his party was “working nicely together,” just hours after House Republicans’ infighting forced them to delay a vote on a multitrillion-dollar budget bill.“Great News! ‘The...
View ArticleWhite House Censoring Embarrassing Pool Reports of Trump
In its latest attack on the free press, the Trump administration is withholding pool reports that make it look bad.Two recent dispatches from White House pool reporters, a rotating group of reporters...
View ArticleTrump Humiliated With Montage of Headlines About Caving on Tariffs
The public reaction to Donald Trump’s tariff reversal has not been good.CNN’s John Berman decided to spew off a list of headlines Thursday morning related to the market frenzy while introducing...
View ArticleTrump’s Dumbest Order Is Hiding His Most Dangerous Rule Change Yet
Buried within Donald Trump’s executive order “undoing the left’s war on water pressure” was a shady phrase to help the president fast-track his deregulatory crusade.In a section of the order signed...
View ArticleElon Musk’s DOGE Gives Tesla Massive Helping Hand With Newest Purge
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency fired car safety experts in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration who directly regulated Tesla.The Financial Times reports that DOGE fired...
View ArticleTrump’s Latest Executive Order Lays Bare His Authoritarian Ambitions
The highest form of freedom in a democracy isn’t just the right to vote or protest—it’s the right to speak truth to power. To call out corruption. To challenge lies. To stand firm when the powerful...
View ArticleAOC Calls Out Suspicious Stock Trades in Congress Amid Tariff Fiasco
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other Democrats are accusing Donald Trump and his administration of manipulating the market to their benefit. Just days after Trump announced his”Liberation...
View ArticleTrump Brags About How Tariff Pause Made His Friends Even Richer
Donald Trump is openly bragging about just how much money his billionaire buddies made off of his dangerous tariff gambit. After announcing a 90-day pause Wednesday on his sweeping “reciprocal tariff”...
View ArticleTrump Caved on Tariffs. That Still May Not Stop a Recession.
Donald Trump may have reversed course on tariffs, but that doesn’t mean the economy has reversed course away from a recession.Some of the country’s largest investment firms—including JP Morgan and...
View ArticleTrump Finally Confirms True Scope of China Tariffs—Setting Up Disaster
Donald Trump’s tariff reversal Wednesday reduced duties against most countries’ imports to 10 percent—except China, which was instead being raised to a staggering 125 percent, or so he announced at the...
View ArticleTrump Dealt Huge Blow in Central Park Five Defamation Lawsuit
A federal judge on Thursday denied Donald Trump’s motion to dismiss a new defamation lawsuit from the Central Park Five.In a 20-page filing, Pennsylvania District Court Judge Wendy Beetlestone ruled...
View ArticleEggs Prices Soar to Record High as Trump Destroys Economy
As Donald Trump enacts economic mayhem with his relentless tariff flip-flopping, eggs are still getting more expensive.The average cost of a dozen large eggs jumped 6 percent in March, now costing...
View ArticleWhy the Trump Team Keeps Turning ICE Raids Into Reality TV
In recent weeks, the Trump administration has fully embraced the art of the immigration raid as reality television. They are intentionally producing devastating scenes designed to circulate on social...
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