Why the Hell Is Justice Alito Excused from a Key Supreme Court Decision Next Week?
Optimists are saying he’s stepping off the Trump train. Pessimists have a more realistic guess.

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Optimists are saying he’s stepping off the Trump train. Pessimists have a more realistic guess.

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A ridiculous line of questioning left the former special counsel looking dazed and confused.

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I’m just glad there’s someone out there trying to solve the unsolved.

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These foodborne-illness outbreaks have certainly put the Republican party in a sh*tty situation.

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How will Americans react when they turn on the taps and nothing comes out?

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Fair elections might soon become a thing of the past.

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Needless to say, the administration had no case whatsoever.

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Pete Hegseth better make this explicable as quickly as possible, or we’re in for some serious trouble.

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I respect it, but I’m not 100 percent sure it’ll work.

© Michael B. Thomas
Try to guess which party he belongs to.

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Even now, in our so-called postliterate age, can reading a book—a novel, of all things—inspire us to a richer, fuller life? Ayad Akhtar hopes it still can.

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Why doesn’t he just get it over with already and change our country to the United States of Trump?

© Finn Gomez
Who better to team up with for such a slimy crusade than Dr. Oz?

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The president said he’s leading the world into a future of “super intelligence,” but it sure sounded like the opposite.

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An investigation uncovered that Maine senator Susan Collins, among other politicians, have benefited from such lax enforcement.

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And it’s not because the product in question is fertilizer.

© JIM WATSON
Republicans have a whopping financial advantage, thanks in part to the We-Invented-New-Money crowd. Is that enough to overcome affiliation with an extremely unpopular president?

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Greedy slicksters are scooping up farms and doctor’s offices and ruining them for profit. Only in America!

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Remind me why we gave this moron carte blanche to let his freak flag fly?

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The Trump administration is cutting back limits on PFAS, which I think we can all agree is a very bad thing.

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