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Paul Krugman is a Nobel winning economist, but the man can turn a phrase . 

 The unprecedented gathering of America's top military officers in one place to listen to Fox News Personality Pete Hegseth engendered l...

 The decision by Closeted Gay Leprechaun Mike Johnson to NOT swear in Adelita Grivalja to the House seat that she just won is just another ...

 In the midst of Trump and Hegseth's ridiculous hectoring of America's senior military command, we get this column from Thomas Frie...

  Yglesias makes one of his arguments that I actually agree with: We should focus on building MORE clean energy, not on making LESS hydroca...

  Josh Marshall makes an important point about how the GOP has been acting like thugs but now expect Democrats to "come to the table...

 There has been some sniping (and by sniping I mean a full scale artillery barrage) directed at Democrats for their shutdown strategy. Becau...

 There are obviously so many concerns about Trump's assault on American Democracy. This is likely to be a feature of this space for the ...

  This quote  is so important to understanding Trumpism. Trump is not a bright guy, especially now that he's clearly in cognitive and ph...

 Two threads that basically wonder if we are in a new reality here in Trumpistan. The first is Josh Marshall noting that Democrats are not ...

 With all the focus on Charlie Kirk/Jimmy Kimmel/acetomopeneneagin, there is a serious crisis building under the surface of the news. Trump...

  The monologue was pretty good - emotional, concise, pointed. As Krugman noted , this is a sign that authoritarianism of the type Trump wa...

  Trump's bizarre, rambling, inchoate speech to United Nations was one of the many recent moments where we see Trump slipping deeper in...

  Josh Marshall takes a run at the centrist sanewashing of Charlie Kirk. The Ezra Klein argument that Kirk "did politics the right way...

 Unsurprisingly, it seems like an excessive use of force.