Undoing the Golden Age of Corruption, Demanding Accountability
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Undoing Trump’s Golden Age of Corruption
LOOKING FOR REASONS why President Trump is so intent on lying about the midterm elections? How about 2.2 billion of them?
That’s how much money he made as president in 2025: $2.2 billion, which is a staggering level of personal enrichment, largely tied to policy decisions he is making as president. The scheme is flagrant: Trump is running the government and profiting from the government at the same time. He’s turned the presidency into the most lucrative grift in political history, and he does not want to lose his MAGA protectors in the House and Senate.
Support the Troops. Demand Accountability.
WHEN SEN. GARY PETERS QUESTIONED Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth about the administration’s handling of the conflict with Iran, Hegseth responded by accusing Peters of denigrating the military.
Trump Can’t Stop Pretending the Iran War Is Over
DONALD TRUMP GETS AWAY WITH LYING most of the time. But sometimes reality is so stark and serious that he can’t escape it. That’s what happened in his first term, when he pretended that COVID would quickly disappear.
How the Tech Right Learned to Love Mordor
THE TECH LORD PETER THIEL and those in his orbit have a thing about naming their companies after elements from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. The most infamous of these is, of course, Palantir, the data-analytics and intelligence-software company heavily integrated into wartime dec…
A High-Stakes Primary in Wisconsin’s Race for Governor
IN HIS NEW BOOK, This Is the Plan: How to End America’s Meltdown and Save Democracy, former Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair Ben Wikler puts his finger on his state’s national political importance, at one point declaring:
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