Congress could still add guardrails to Lindsey Graham’s legacy sanctions bill to stop Trump from further abusing his tariff authority.
Lindsey Graham
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Cocky Iran Hawks Forget the History of Blowback
Bombing Iran may be the easy part. What hawks refuse to reckon with is everything that comes next.
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Trump Is Coming for Birthright Citizenship
The Republican presidential nominee wants to wipe away the 156-year-old guarantee that if you’re born here, you’re American. Don’t think he can’t.
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Would George Orwell Recognize Today’s Republican Party?
Would George Orwell Recognize Today’s Republican Party? Steve Benen’s new book grimly and wisely dissects the “Republican war on the recent past.”
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Pence to Trump: I Just Can’t Quit You
The special counsel demands that he testify but the former veep refuses—on dubious legal grounds—to fully break with the man who would have let him hang.
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Will Republicans Stand by Ukraine?
It would have been a no-brainer a few years ago, but the Trumpy GOP is divided over backing Kyiv.
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The Racists Who Came to Dinner
The Mar-a-Lago meal with Ye and Fuentes was bad enough. The slow, mealy-mouthed Republican reaction shows that the GOP just can’t quit Trump.
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To Save the Planet, Divide and Conquer
Democrats make progress on climate change when they set business lobbies against each other.
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Trump “Will Be Indicted”
As the former president faces legal investigations, the author and white-collar-crime scholar Jennifer Taub identifies the probe that’s furthest along, what January 6 Committee graphic was key, and why you can’t get a toupee in federal prison.
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The Women Who Can Take Out Trump
Representative Liz Cheney has the platform, but Fulton County DA Fani Willis has the grand jury. Behold the Furies of January 6.
