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Why 2025 Trump (Sorta, Kinda) Achieved What 2017 Trump Couldn’t
The GOP strategy emphasized speed and stealth—and absolute loyalty to the president.
Jul 9
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Jonathan Cohn
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Why 2025 Trump (Sorta, Kinda) Achieved What 2017 Trump Couldn’t
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An Ignominious Bill Passed By an Inglorious Body
Millions will lose health insurance, but at least all those struggling Americans in the top 1 percent will get a big tax break.
Jul 2
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Jonathan Cohn
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An Ignominious Bill Passed By an Inglorious Body
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June 2025
A $1 Trillion Medicaid Cut Is THIS Close to Happening. Here’s What It’d Look Like.
Republicans are about to slash a lifeline for the needy. In North Carolina, people are preparing for chaos and calamity.
Jun 29
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Jonathan Cohn
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A $1 Trillion Medicaid Cut Is THIS Close to Happening. Here’s What It’d Look Like.
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How Trump Killed the GOP’s Love of States’ Rights
From immigration to education to Medicaid, the new strategy is to impose a MAGA vision on America—whether or not states like it.
Jun 24
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Jonathan Cohn
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How Trump Killed the GOP’s Love of States’ Rights
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Do Republicans Realize Whose Health Care They’re Cutting?
Their big beautiful bill is polling terribly, yet somehow Senate leaders may have just made it worse.
Jun 18
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Jonathan Cohn
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Do Republicans Realize Whose Health Care They’re Cutting?
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Yes, They’re Going After Medicare Too
A wonky change in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill would hammer some of the very people Republicans insist they are protecting.
Jun 15
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Jonathan Cohn
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Yes, They’re Going After Medicare Too
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The One Thing Elon Musk Is Right About
He threw a fit about EV credits getting nixed in Trump’s bill. But he’s not wrong that they’re good for America (and Tesla, too).
Jun 8
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Jonathan Cohn
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The One Thing Elon Musk Is Right About
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Yes. People Will Die.
Joni Ernst’s cringey videos were wrong. They also reveal a lot about the GOP’s desperately dishonest sales job.
Jun 4
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Jonathan Cohn
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Yes. People Will Die.
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RFK Jr. May Have Just Ruined Our Best Weapon Against Bird Flu
He just made two bad decisions on vaccines, and he made them in the worst way possible.
Jun 1
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Jonathan Cohn
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RFK Jr. May Have Just Ruined Our Best Weapon Against Bird Flu
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May 2025
They Are, In Fact, Coming After Obamacare Again
Plus: Billy Joel and the value of medical research.
May 28
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Jonathan Cohn
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They Are, In Fact, Coming After Obamacare Again
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The GOP’s Big Medicaid Idea Was Tried Before—And Failed Badly
Arkansas and Georgia tried work requirements, and the results were not pretty.
May 21
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Jonathan Cohn
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The GOP’s Big Medicaid Idea Was Tried Before—And Failed Badly
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How to Take Medicaid from Millions of Americans, in Less Than 72 Hours
There’s a reason Republicans are in such a rush to get Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” through Congress.
May 18
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Jonathan Cohn
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How to Take Medicaid from Millions of Americans, in Less Than 72 Hours
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The GOP Medicaid Cuts Are a Big F*cking Deal
7.6 million newly uninsured, and that’s not even the whole story.
May 14
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Jonathan Cohn
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The GOP Medicaid Cuts Are a Big F*cking Deal
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3 ‘Prebuttals’ for MAGA’s Coming Health Care Cuts
Here’s what Republican leaders don’t want you to know about their Medicaid plans.
May 11
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Jonathan Cohn
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3 ‘Prebuttals’ for MAGA’s Coming Health Care Cuts
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Laura Loomer Just Called the GOP’s Bluff on Medicaid Cuts
It’s a sign of how the politics of the program have changed, especially for MAGA.
May 7
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Jonathan Cohn
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Laura Loomer Just Called the GOP’s Bluff on Medicaid Cuts
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The Ballad of Big Gretch
It’s not easy to govern and defend democracy at the same time. Just ask Michigan Democrats.
May 4
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Jonathan Cohn
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The Ballad of Big Gretch
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April 2025
Five Big Questions About Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
As Republicans get to work on the legislative language, here’s what they’re really trying to do—and what’s at stake.
Apr 30
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Jonathan Cohn
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Five Big Questions About Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Can Donald Trump Get Americans to Make More Babies?
There’s an important conversation to have about fertility rates. It doesn’t look like this.
Apr 27
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Jonathan Cohn
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Can Donald Trump Get Americans to Make More Babies?
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Trump Turns COVID.gov into MAGA Fan Service
It used to provide medical information. Now it’s just Fauci hate and lab leak theories.
Apr 23
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Jonathan Cohn
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Trump Turns COVID.gov into MAGA Fan Service
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Health Insurance for Millions Is Now on the Chopping Block
Republicans’ very quiet, very serious effort to go after Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion.
Apr 19
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Jonathan Cohn
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Health Insurance for Millions Is Now on the Chopping Block
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Trump’s Science Cuts Will Be Felt for Generations
Mindless slashing at NSF won’t just harm the scientific enterprise today—it will damage discovery and innovation for years to come.
Apr 16
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Jonathan Cohn
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Trump’s Science Cuts Will Be Felt for Generations
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Don’t Be Fooled: RFK Jr. Is Still Talking Down Vaccines
It’s part of a much bigger blow to American health care that will reverberate for decades.
Apr 13
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Jonathan Cohn
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Don’t Be Fooled: RFK Jr. Is Still Talking Down Vaccines
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Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200, Do Go Out of Business
A close-up look at the stupidity of Donald Trump’s tariffs.
Apr 9
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Jonathan Cohn
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Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200, Do Go Out of Business
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Trump’s Next Target: Poverty-Stricken Kids
Head Start and other early-childhood programs are among those affected by massive cuts to HHS.
Apr 6
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Jonathan Cohn
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Trump’s Next Target: Poverty-Stricken Kids
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