Close your eyes and make a list of the most important issues in the 2024 election. Maybe you thought of the cost of living, abortion, immigration, democracy, climate change, gun violence, the war in Gaza, the Supreme Court. If you’re like the vast majority of voters, the word you probably …
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Donald Trump’s incoming administration brass wants it made clear: The president-elect is not planning to build a brand new network of “camps” to house the myriad undocumented immigrants who Trump has vowed to round up in what he claims will be “the largest deportation” operation in the “history of our …
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Donald Trump has nominated a roster of highly controversial, and in some cases scandal-plagued, MAGA chaos agents to serve in his Cabinet — and is planning to force them through the U.S. Senate, a chamber in which the incoming president will enjoy a new conservative majority. However, when it comes …
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A “close friend” of Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. attorney general, has asked a court to destroy records that could shed light on the details of a sex party with an underage girl that Gaetz allegedly attended. The records include witness statements about a 2017 party that featured …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin sees an opportunity to consolidate territorial gains in Ukraine and freeze the war in Moscow’s favor, with President-elect Donald Trump having vowed to end the war “in 24 hours” once he was elected — even if it means forcing the beleaguered democracy to cede land that …
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Donald Trump’s second-term Cabinet was always going to be weird. But his selection of Fox & Friends host Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense sent shockwaves through Washington, D.C. — even among Republicans and Hegseth’s cable-TV colleagues. Shortly after the news broke on Tuesday night, two Republican senators messaged Rolling …
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In the days following Donald Trump’s 2024 election win, Democratic politicians, journalists, and pundits have been searching for potential explanations for Vice President Kamala Harris’ defeat. We have offered up some of our own. On Monday, Rolling Stone spoke with Michael Podhorzer, former longtime political director for the AFL-CIO, the …
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Republicans are selecting their next Senate majority leader on Wednesday, to take power from the increasingly decrepit Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. Will the next GOP leader be a thorn in Trump’s side, as the old-school corporate conservative McConnell occasionally was, or a MAGA fixer, greasing the skids to ram controversial …
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The morning after the election, James Zogby — a stalwart member of the Democratic National Committee for more than three decades — called Rolling Stone to unload. Zogby had been one of the Democratic Party’s few, openly dissenting voices during the campaign. He spoke at length with Rolling Stone about …
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Amid a decisive rejection of the Democratic Party, there was, on Tuesday, a small glimmer of hope for the next four years emanating from the heart of the Bible Belt. In Missouri, a majority of voters chose to enshrine the right to an abortion in their state’s constitution, overturning a …
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