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Trump Finally Signs Transition Documents—With One Giant Catch
Around the 13-minute mark, Knowles suggested that, as incoming White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt “is looking at the new press briefing room chart, maybe it’s time to reorder...
Transcript: Trump’s Rage at NYT Offers Unnerving Hint at What’s Coming
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the November 27 episode of theDaily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR...
Mexican President’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Exposes an Ugly MAGA Scam
It’s darkly amusing that Sheinbaum would cite U.S. statistics to make this point, because Trump does not allow that the reality depicted by our own data even exists. During...
The Longevity Hot Spots That Weren’t
In subsequent articles, books, a TED talk, and eventually a hit Netflix series, Buettner and Poulain expanded their research, naming three more blue zones in Ikaria, Greece; Nicoya, Costa...
Trump Could Make U.S. Cars Less Competitive
“These are improvements the auto companies could have made in prior years but didn’t, and only did now because they were required to do it” by new fuel efficiency...
Dreams of Sea and Fire
The sea makes me weird.The sea so roughand ancient.Rough as night fallsand I feel somethingsea-likein my blood,salt,all the forgotten modes of ancient love,the waterlogged sailors beautifuland benumbedin their flawless...
Ice Cream
Before visiting, I’d stop for ice creamwhere young girls with young muscleswould flex deeply into cold hard cylindersand pull out great frozen globs of creamthat would soften beside meon...
Trump’s Eruption of Rage at NYT Offers Unnerving Hint of What’s Coming
This week, Donald Trump erupted in fury at The New York Times. He appeared triggered by a story about an aide named Natalie Harp, who serves as his gatekeeper...
Even Canada’s Right Wing Is Stunned by Trump’s Extreme Tariff Threat
One of Canada’s leading right-wing politicians was taken aback by Donald Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on America’s northern neighbor. Ontario Premier Doug Ford, a member of Canada’s Conservative Party,...
