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You’ve gotta be f’n kidding me. President Donald Trump has roiled the world economy , driven gas prices and inflation higher , killed over 1,000 Iranians , lost 13 Americans , and could cost taxpayers $200 billion . And his administration’s big solution to end the war? A literal cut and paste of the deal that President Barack Obama made with Iran. “Any deal to end the war would need to include th…

Explaining the Right is a weekly series that looks at what the right wing is currently obsessing over, how it influences politics—and why you need to know. President Donald Trump squeaked out a win in the 2024 election and began his second term in the presidency with a flurry of activity that shocked the system (in the worst way possible). Since then, he has made misfire after misfire that has dr…

By Patricia Callahan for ProPublica Dr. Adam Ratner hovered over a gravely ill infant in a New York City intensive care unit on a grim day in 2022. The 3-month-old girl spiked a fever two days earlier and had become lethargic. Soon she was having seizures and struggling to breathe. She didn’t register Ratner’s towering frame or the bright hospital lights. Her eyes stared up and to the right, eeri…

Injustice for All is a weekly series about how the Trump administration is trying to weaponize the justice system—and the people who are fighting back. This week, we’ve got a cavalcade of courts that needed to explain the most basic principles of constitutional law to the Trump administration. You might have learned in grade school that criminal defendants are guaranteed a right to counsel, but a…

As inequality grows, states are stepping up where the federal government hasn’t. “It’s a movement,” says Patriotic Millionaire’s Chuck Collins. By Mark Kreidler for Capital & Main Washington isn’t the first state to pass a so-called millionaire tax, and it won’t be the last. Massachusetts’ millionaire surcharge has been in place since 2023, California may be voting to tax billionaires this fall, …

The paradoxically titled Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was in the hot seat during various congressional hearings this week, where she failed to provide any evidence to justify President Donald Trump’s war in Iran . And it was all on video. Tulsi Gabbard can’t handle Democrats’ questions on Iran YouTube Video Intelligence officials testified before the Senate Select Committee on …

This week’s top staff stories on Daily Kos all had one through line: President Donald Trump’s Iran war is fracturing everything around it—his coalition, his credibility, and the GOP’s political footing. Failing isn’t new to Trump. He’s done it time and again in life, but he’s always been bailed out—by bankruptcy, by his lawyers, by his friends, and by his cult-like MAGA base. But with Iran, he’s …

Caribbean Matters is a weekly series from Daily Kos. Hope you’ll join us here every Saturday. If you are unfamiliar with the region, check out Caribbean Matters: Getting to know the countries of the Caribbean . Today is an important date in Puerto Rican History. Back in 2022, I wrote about it in Caribbean Matters: Puerto Rican history—like the 1937 Ponce Massacre—isn't taught in U.S. schools : Ma…

Few presidents have ever faced the kind of economic nightmare President Donald Trump is inflicting on the American people—and none of them survived it politically. From a stagnant job market, rising health care costs, and soaring inflation to what experts are calling an “ armageddon scenario ” for gas prices, Trump’s economic malpractice has the United States teetering on the edge of a once-in-a-…