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Bill Scher is the politics editor of the Washington Monthly. He is the host of the history podcast When America Worked and the cohost of the bipartisan online show and podcast The DMZ.
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The president should be scrutinized with the same intensity as others in the Epstein Files.
The Republican Study Committee’s framework for a second reconciliation bill aims to make life even more miserable for immigrants, including legal residents.
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Russia is toothless. If anyone needed evidence of how far and fast Russia has fallen, it is the American assault on Iran. This “war,” as President Donald Trump called it in his video message on Saturday, would have been impossible if Moscow were not bogged down with its reckless, inhumane bloodbath in Ukraine, now in its fifth year. (That’s not counting the 2014 Crimean invasion and annexation, which would make it 12 years.) While Russia bleeds, its clients, allies, and friends flail or fall. Syria and Venezuela were pre-show. Iran is big time. Bashar al-Assad had nowhere to turn when…
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When President Donald Trump addressed the cameras this morning to announce the U.S.-Israel attack on Iran, he put the theocracy’s nuclear program in his sights: “They’ve rejected every opportunity to renounce their nuclear ambitions, and we can’t take it anymore.” He denounced them for attempting to “rebuild their nuclear program” and “developing the long-range missiles that can now threaten our very good friends and allies in Europe, our troops stationed overseas, and could soon reach the American homeland.” What the president elides is that he scotched the nuclear deal that, imperfect though it was, provided monitoring of Tehran’s nuclear program…
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From bow-tied neocon to flannel-clad conspiracist, a once-talented writer becomes a promulgator of MAGA bilge.
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The president should be scrutinized with the same intensity as others in the Epstein Files.
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Our president gets total immunity while a leading royal is arrested.
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Millions are failing college math. Advocates say the problem isn’t students, but decades-old curricula that require Cold War-era algebra skills.
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