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How the New Food Pyramid Fits Into the Broader Conservative Project
The Agriculture Department’s new-look food pyramid, released last week to accompany a new set of Dietary Guidelines for Americans, appears more like a minimalist poster designed to be hung...
Transcript: Trump Explodes at GOPers as Defiance of Him Visibly Grows
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 12 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The...
Which City Will Donald Trump Bomb First: Tehran—or Minneapolis?
It’s worth asking how things came to this. We’ve done a lot of terrible things over the decades—installed dictators who imprisoned and murdered their people, armed death squads, and...
Generation X’s Lessons For the Second Trump Era
A military incursion into Latin America. A war to control another country’s oil. A corrupt administration engineering spectacle (“We want a show”) to keep the public distracted. A visibly...
The Only Time Trump Makes News Is When He Tells the Truth
Indeed, as Kessler noted in his final Fact Check column, fact-checking is in retreat everywhere. Meta ended its fact-checking program shortly before Trump took office; Google threw in the...
Trump’s Rage Explodes at GOPers as Their Defiance of Him Visibly Grows
The other day, five Senate Republicans helped pass a measure blocking President Trump’s authority to wage war in Venezuela without Congress. That caused Trump to erupt in a crazed...
The Red-State City That’s Doing Immigration Right
Some of these young women—part of a corps of thousands of young Mormons on assignment around the world, including the church’s own headquarters—sport U.S. flags, but on a recent...
The Case for Impeaching Donald Trump
Bombs over Latin America: It’s giving Wag the Dog, if you ask me. The administration, seemingly hot to bring back neoconservative military conquest, soft-launched its latest regime change war...
Trump, 79, Accidentally Reads Marco Rubio’s Private Note Out Loud
Donald Trump humiliated himself Friday when Secretary of State Marco Rubio tried to slyly pass him a note during a meeting with oil executives, and the president immediately read...
Katie Miller Loses It at ChatGPT (Yes, Really) for Wildest Reason
Katie Miller, the wife of Trump adviser Stephen Miller, fumed Friday when ChatGPT didn’t give her the answer she wanted about the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. Miller shared a post...
