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To the relief of Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese, incoming US secretary of state Marco Rubio has confirmed Donald Trump’s “very strong support” for the AUKUS military pact that is supposed to deliver Australia at...

Joe Biden said, in his farewell address: I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. And that’s the dangerous concentration of power in the hands of very few ultra-wealthy...

In the lead-up to his inauguration, President Donald Trump identified a surprising priority: Greenland. Trump wants to purchase the island, which is an “autonomous” province of Denmark; take control of the Panama Canal; and annex...

Last November, Scottish investigative outlet the Ferret revealed that the United States had established its first new military presence in Scotland since the turn of the century. After a £350 million refurbishment, the Royal Air...

In 1992, Donald Trump had a cameo in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. Macaulay Culkin’s Kevin McCallister asks him for directions in the Plaza Hotel lobby, and Trump (who owned the hotel both...

During the springtime of 2017, I told a good friend that I was worried about almost everyone we knew. Anyone politically left of center seemed to be anxious, depressed, addicted to everything bad, and looking...

Donald Trump’s threats to take over the Panama Canal, convert Canada into the fifty-first state, and purchase Greenland may not be as ludicrous as they first seem. The proposals, albeit unachievable, lay the groundwork for...

In the fall of 1964, the Democratic Party seemed to have seized decisive control of US national politics. Returning from the terrible setback of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy the previous year, former...

On the eve of his second inauguration, Donald Trump launched his own meme coin, the perfectly named $TRUMP. Let’s leave aside the fact that many of Trump’s most committed and gullible followers are about to...

For the last three election cycles, the main project of the Democratic Party has been to keep Donald Trump out of office. Advancing policy to improve the lives of working people has been, at best,...

For years, the Democrats have painted Donald Trump and his version of the Republican Party as an existential threat to democracy. Leaning into this characterization, President Joe Biden’s farewell address warned of an oligarchy taking...

In May of last year, the now outgoing Biden administration made the decision to impose sweeping tariffs on Chinese exports, ranging from 25 percent for personal protective equipment to 100 percent for electric vehicles. This...