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America needs Donald Trump, badly. He is the bull in the china shop that every nation needs from time to time. He is testing his country’s constitution to destruction as well as its relations with the outside world. Such tests hasten the necessity of reform. The only question is how long will it take for reform to catch up and overcome him, as it surely will. Constitutional chaos may then break loose after midterms. This is America’s great opportunity In January alone Trump toppled the leader of Venezuela, mooted the conquest of Greenland and a 100 percent tariffs on Canada, insulted the British army and killed Americans protesting his immigration

Kat Abughazaleh is one of those influencers who – unnervingly – seem to pop out of nowhere fully formed. There was a stint at Media Matters – which in many ways pioneered the modern industry in “disinformation”-watchdogging, political fact-checking and “studying the far right” – where she made short-form videos taking the fight to people like Tucker Carlson. After the 2024 election Abughazaleh, now 26, was one of several youthful activists who called for the destruction of the “gerontocracy” in the Democratic party. She is now a candidate for Illinois’s 9th congressional district, after first issuing a primary challenge to 81-year-old Representative Jan Schakowsky. “I just couldn’t watch it anymore. I

Lost in the hysterical media bleating about a new criminal investigation into Jerome Powell is any attempt to report fairly on his alleged transgressions. The singular lens through which the investigation is being reported in many openly and not-so-openly left leaning outlets is that it is Donald Trump’s revenge after Powell refused to do as instructed and lower interest rates But the aperture needs to be widened to see the full picture: the case is about more than the Chair of the Federal Reserve not bending the knee. It is about Powell’s competency as the nation’s chief money man after presiding over the central bank’s vast and scandalous renovation project

The president Trump stood at a White House lectern and angrily listed his accomplishments

The Delegate from the US Virgin Islands beat a censuring attempt after it was revealed she’d been emailing Epstein during a congressional hearing

The Senate Minority Leader finds himself in troubled waters as Democrats move to reopen the government

The party is staring down the barrel of a choice between aged incompetence and unpopular extremism

States that reject the federal school-choice program protect teachers unions, not students

The failed candidate is back to rewrite history again

By taking the Fifth, he only raises more suspicion

‘As we enter our 249th year America is winning, winning, winning, like never before’

But he also triggers the start of the midterm elections.

Washington’s GOP doesn’t feel the need to sell the Big, Beautiful Bill outside the Beltway. This is an extremely risky proposition

The bickering billionaires exchange blows

Over the last several days, a slight divide has emerged between Trump and Senate Republicans on Ukraine and Russia policy