Pre-election transition planning is famously so tight-lipped that you’d barely know it is happening when you read the news of the day. The dreaded headline claims the candidate is “measuring the drapes of the White House” long before any votes are counted. Opposing campaigns are all too eager to pounce …
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On July 29, 2024, a man stabbed several people at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in the seaside town of Southport in northern England, killing three young children. As their deaths shocked the nation, rumors about the attacker’s identity quickly spread online. Far-right provocateurs like Andrew Tate — who was …
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Donald Trump has been fairly explicit regarding his plans to reward his most ardent sycophants with high-level administration positions should he win another term in office. Independent presidential candidate and vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for instance, is expected to take over a major national health role. His …
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At a town hall event on Saturday in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, as Elon Musk continued his tour of the state in support of Donald Trump, the topic of immigration came up. That in itself was hardly unusual — Musk, Trump, and the entire MAGA movement have been demonizing immigrants throughout the …
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PHILADELPHIA — The city’s oldest bar, McGillin’s Olde Ale House, is perennially festooned with Eagles ephemera, but on the night of the first presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, which happens to be taking place just down the street at the National Constitution Center, the televisions at McGillin’s …
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Donald Trump isn’t waiting until Election Day to accuse Democrats of running a large-scale voter fraud operation in Pennsylvania, despite local election officials assuring voters that the systems in place to prevent fraudulent voting are working. For days now, the former president has been stoking claims of electoral fraud in …
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With a week to go until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris delivered her closing message at a massive rally of 75,000 people gathered at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. With the White House lit up behind her, Harris urged the fired up crowd and Americans watching to embrace a …
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Former President Donald Trump pleaded ignorance after garnering a wave of backlash over racist insults made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe at his Madison Square Garden rally over the weekend. When speaking to Fox News host Sean Hannity on Tuesday, the Republican presidential candidate brushed aside the firestorm as not “a …
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Early in the 2016 campaign, months before Donald Trump won his first presidential nomination, I wrote my friend Philip Roth an email about his novel, The Plot Against America, which had appeared twelve years earlier. The book was Roth’s fanciful but chilling fiction about a fascist takeover of the presidency …
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EL PASO, Texas — In a campaign visit to the Arizona–Mexico border in September, Vice President Kamala Harris promised to institute “more severe criminal charges” for people who attempt to cross the border without adequate paperwork, touting her record as a prosecutor. Five years ago, while campaigning for president, Harris …
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