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Regime change in Cuba could benefit wealthy Republicans
Heather Digby Parton
Business and commerce are driving Donald Trump and Marco Rubio's desire to "take" Cuba
Trump’s Cabinet retreats behind military gates
Chauncey DeVega
Housing officials on military bases has little precedent in U.S. history. It has plenty in authoritarian regimes
Trump’s Iran war price tag just keeps rising
Garrett Owen
The Pentagon requests more than $200 billion for the war while the White House hasn't articulated a clear objective
How Iran emasculated JD Vance
Amanda Marcotte
The vice president’s alignment with Trump risks harming the persona he’s built with manosphere voters ahead of 2028
Tulsi Gabbard’s Iran pivot comes with contradictions
Heather Digby Parton
The DNI who once sold shirts that read "No War With Iran" is now apparently all in on Donald Trump's war of choice
Trump’s politics of death extend far beyond Iran
Chauncey DeVega
COVID, gun violence and Iran reveal a governing instinct based on authoritarian violence disorder
Who will stop Trump on Iran?
Brian Karem
As the war escalates and the president digs in, the White House says "Nobody tells him what to do"
For Gen Z Republican men, sex is solitary
Amanda Marcotte
Young conservatives' anger at women is taking a nihilistic turn
Trump’s “America First” becomes America alone
Heather Digby Parton
The nation’s allies are refusing to help in Iran, leaving the president increasingly isolated on the world stage
Laugh at Trump’s shoe gifts all you want — it’s a loyalty test
Chauncey DeVega
The Florsheim presents aren’t about style — they reveal the mechanics of MAGA authoritarianism and if it can endure
Venezuela beats Team USA at the World Baseball Classic
Alex Galbraith
Team USA’s rah-rah, military-inflected approach clashed with a sport built on looseness — and lost
Ireland’s leader survives visit with cranky old guy in White House
Andrew O'Hehir
Trump misgenders Ireland's president, rants about "windmills," demands world's gratitude — all in all, it went OK
ICE “course correction”? Markwayne Mullin isn’t it
Amanda Marcotte
The department of homeland security shutdown shows Republicans still answer to Stephen Miller
Trump wants to punish media for his unpopular war
Sophia Tesfaye
The president and FCC Chair Brendan Carr are threatening journalists and broadcasters for their Iran coverage
Even MAGA country is protesting Trump
Chauncey DeVega
New research shows a small but growing protest movement in areas that voted overwhelmingly for the president
How Iran is exposing Vance and Rubio’s 2028 rivalry
Heather Digby Parton
The widening Middle East war has made it clear that Republicans learned nothing from Democrats' political missteps
A new draft? Unlikely. But Trump still wants the emergency powers
Chauncey DeVega
Leavitt’s comments about a possible draft hint at something far more plausible: expanded presidential powers
When a narcissist autocrat led the world into war
Andrew O'Hehir
Kaiser Wilhelm II was an erratic despot known for unhinged foreign policy schemes. The result was catastrophe
Trump’s Strait of Hormuz problem
Heather Digby Parton
Oil prices surge as the Trump administration shows no clear plan for the world’s most critical shipping lane
Why the Iran war was inevitable
Mike Lofgren
There were many reasons behind Trump's decision to attack — but none of them were about US national security
With Iran war, reality doesn’t matter to Trump
Brian Karem
The war will end when Trump feels it in his bones. In the meantime, he says everything is fine
Lindsey Graham just triggered a MAGA revolt over Iran
Sophia Tesfaye
Pro-Trump media figures warn the president is trapped in a hawkish echo chamber around the senator
Pete Hegseth’s manly act is backfiring
Amanda Marcotte
MAGA bros hoped the defense secretary would make them feel butch — with Iran war, he embarrasses them
Trump’s threats against the “radical left” echo a long history
Heather Digby Parton
Conservatives have often used the federal government to go after protesters and dissenters
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