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President Donald Trump, flanked by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's Venezuela playbook is a retread

Betty Medsger - The Conversation
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds her first news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on January 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Leavitt’s White House doublethink

Laura Beers
(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Epstein's victims deserve our attention

Stephanie A. Martin
President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office on Aug. 22, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Judges reject Trump's immigrant roundups

Cassandra Burke Robertson - The Conversation
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Zohran Mamdani campaigns for mayor of New York City on an affordability platform (Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Rich won't leave Mamdani's New York City

Cristobal Young - The Conversation
Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in Cambridge, MA on 9/8/04. (Rick Friedman/Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis via Getty Images)

Why MAGA is so concerned with Epstein

Alexander Hinton - The Conversation
Signs point the way to measles testing in the parking lot of the Seminole Hospital District across from Wigwam Stadium on February 27, 2025 in Seminole, Texas. ((Photo by Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images))

The US will lose its measles-free status

Kathryn H. Jacobsen - The Conversation
Former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks at the Sunshine Summit opening dinner at Disney's Contemporary Resort. (Photo by Tom Benitez - Pool/Getty Images)

Dick Cheney's vision lives on in Trump

Graham G. Dodds - The Conversation
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Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani speaks during a press conference on Universal Child Care at Columbus Park Playground on November 19, 2024 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Mamdani child care plan could change US

Simon Black - The Conversation
Prager U founder Dennis Prager, nationally syndicated conservative radio talk show host and writer, speaking at the Turning Point High School Leadership Summit in Washington, DC. (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"Woke-proofing" comes for schools

Emery Petchauer - The Conversation
The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford. (Photo by Federico Gambarini/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Trump goes to war without a net

Jeffrey Fields - The Conversation
Bad Bunny performs live during "No Me Quiero Ir De Aquí; Una Más" Residencia on September 20, 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Gladys Vega/Getty Images)

Why MAGA is furious at Bad Bunny

Ediberto Román, Ernesto Sagás - The Conversation
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The US Supreme Court is seen in Washington DC on May 25, 2023. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

This Supreme Court case could upend DC

Sam D. Hayes - The Conversation
Former FBI Director James Comey (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Comey case echoes authoritarians

Cassandra Burke Robertson - The Conversation
The Supreme Court of the United States building is seen in Washington D.C., United States on June 13, 2024. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

SCOTUS pushes for presidential power

Graham G. Dodds - The Conversation
Conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point Action, speaks during a meeting on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson on October 17, 2024. (Photo by Olivier Touron/Getty Images)

Trump seeks Kirk motive in nonprofits

Beth Gazley - The Conversation
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Charlie Kirk, founder and executive director of Turning Point USA (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Does Kirk murder signal permanent split?

Lee Bebout - The Conversation
Armed groups hold a rally in front of a closed Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas,on January 17, 2021 during a nationwide protest called by anti-government and far-right groups supporting US President Donald Trump and his claim of electoral fraud in the November 3 presidential election. The FBI warned authorities in all 50 states to prepare for armed protests at state capitals in the days leading up to the January 20 presidential inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. ((Photo by MatthePhoto by Matthew Busch/Getty Images)

Political violence is part of US history

Maurizio Valsania
White Supremacist speakers spoke about wanting their own ethno-state in Shelbyville, Tennessee, Illinois, US on 28 Ocotber 2017. (Photo by Shay Horse/Getty Images)

Trial balloons for a white ethnostate

Paul J. Becker - The Conversation
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies during a Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing at the Dirksen Senate Building on January 29, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chen Mengtong/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)

Vaccine falsehoods are guiding policy

Deborah Fuller - The Conversation
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A barbell being lifted to start a bench press. (Photo via Getty Images)

When fitness clubs recruit for racists

Art Jipson - The Conversation
Congressman Jerry Nadler (Rob Kim/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

Democrats have an age problem

Charlie Hunt - The Conversation
Trump and Putin meet in Alaska for supposed peace talks. No resolution, a brief no-question press conference, and maybe Moscow next time. Zelenskyy noticeably absent and uninvited to meet Trump next week. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images)

What peace looks like to Putin and Trump

Ronald Suny - The Conversation
Confederate Flag Displayed With Us Flag On Front Porch Near Window, Backroads Of Virginia, October 26, 2016. (Photo by Joe Sohm/Getty Images)

Being white in the South is complicated

James M. Thomas - The Conversation
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