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Annelle Sheline / Sumit Ganguly / Faith Williams

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05.08.25 - 5:00am

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After Claiming the Houthis Have Cried Uncle, Will Trump Announce a Nuclear Deal With Iran, While in Saudi Arabia Next Week?
Tit-For-Tat Military Strikes by India and Pakistan Appear Performative Not Escalatory
Musk’s Alarming Plan to Build a Single Centralized Database for All the Confidential Government Data DOGE has Scooped Up


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Frank Vogl / Will Bunch / Laurence Rees

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05.07.25 - 5:00am

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The Unprecedented Monetizing of the Oval Office by the Most Corrupt President in U.S. History
How the Trump Mafia Family’s Extortion Can be Stopped
Understanding the Nazi Mind and How it Applies to Trump


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Guy Ziv / Paul Blumenthal / Michael Kimmage

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05.06.25 - 5:00am

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Netanyahu’s Plan to “Capture” Gaza Is a Death Sentence For the Remaining Hostages
Does Trump Want to Repeal the 20th Century or is He Following the Plan of the Oligarchs Who Backed His Reelection?
What If America Abandons Ukraine, the Linchpin of European Security?


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Jacob Heilbrunn / James Liebman / Eric Blanc

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05.02.25 - 5:00am

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Trump’s Reality TV Reshuffle of His National Security Team
SCOTUS Appears Poised to Smash Through the Wall Separating Church and State to Force Taxpayers to Subsidize Religious Indoctrination
On This May Day, How Unions Would Be the Only Way Reindustrialized American Factory Workers Could Make a Living Wage to Support a Family


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Christine Fair / Sidney Blumenthal / Paul Pillar

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05.01.25 - 5:00am

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Two Nuclear Powers — India and Pakistan — are Poised to Go To War
Trump’s 100th Day and the Record-Breaking Collapse of His Poll Numbers
Today’s 50th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, Which Trump is Boycotting While Slapping 46% Tariffs on Vietnam


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Andrew Latham / Rick Perlstein / Greg Grandin

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04.30.25 - 5:00am

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Thanks to Trump’s Bullying, Bluster, and Bombast the Liberals Won In Canada
A Presidential Historian on Trump’s 100-Day Reign of Ruin
The Intertwined Two Americas, as the Colossus of the North Exports State Terror to the South


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Lisa DeMio / Moira Donegan / Sean Wilentz

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04.29.25 - 5:00am

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Governor Pritzker Wows Democrats in the Key New Hampshire Primary State
Thiel, Musk, and Vance’s Pro-Natalist Movement Wants More Superior White Children
The Historical Comparisons Between Hitler’s Rapid Extinction of German Democracy and Trump’s First 100 Days


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04.25.25 - 5:00am

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Why Should Putin Accept Trump’s Peace Deal When He Can Wait for Him to Walk Away as Promised?
One-By-One News Organizations are Caving to Trump’s Extortion
Inside Project 2025 and the Right-Wing Zealots and Culture Warriors Who Crafted the Roadmap For Trump


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04.24.25 - 5:00am

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The Incredible Shrinking Billionaire Who is Destroying Our Government Blames Tesla’s Sales Slump on “Paid” Demonstrators
Vance Announces a Shameful Sellout Of Ukraine, Allowing Russia to Conquer and Subjugate What Putin Could Not Win on the Battlefield


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Trump’s Self-Inflicted Wound on Our Economy, as Overseas Investors Retreat From Treasuries and the Dollar
An Update From Rome on the Conclave with Cardinals From the Global South in the Mix for a New Pope
On This Earth Day, Strategies for Collective Political Action to Make Climate Change the Unifying Crisis of Our Time


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