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Julia Sonnevend is a sociology professor and co-director of the Center for the American Experience at The New School in New York City. She is the author of "Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics." She grew up in Budapest, Hungary.

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Tony Gonzales speaks into a microphone outside the Capitol.

Rep. Tony Gonzales says he plans to retire, the second lawmaker to announce departure today

Ebony Davis

Eric Swalwell looks off to the side.

Rep. Eric Swalwell to resign from Congress after news of sexual misconduct probe

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Skylar Diggins #4 of the Seattle Storm & Kelsey Plum #10 of the Los Angeles Sparks shake hands before the game.

There’s a valuable lesson in tonight’s WNBA draft that Congress could really learn

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Donald Trump stands in front of a cross, which is illuminated from behind.

Trump’s ‘blasphemous’ Truth Social backlash was a long time coming. He just didn’t know it.

Jarvis DeBerry

Trump deletes post depicting himself as Christ-like figure amid outrage from Christian right

Sydney Carruth

Religious Liberty Commission’s last hearing passes over Trump’s messianic AI post in silence

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Viktor Orbán stands in front of microphones.

How Péter Magyar brought down Trump’s favorite European strongman

Julia Sonnevend

An anti-abortion protester holds a red stop sign that says "Stop Abortion Now."

DOJ fires attorneys who prosecuted anti-abortion protestors under Biden

Carol Leonnig & Ken Dilanian

Signage outside the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) headquarters.

As Tax Day arrives, Trump’s decision to kill off IRS Direct File looms large

Steve Benen

Elon Musk looks on during a news conference. in his DOGE hat, in the Oval Office of the White House.

‘Alarming’: Court flags ‘serious questions’ about government conduct in DOGE data case

Jordan Rubin

Hillary Clinton; Viktor Orbán.

Hillary Clinton: Orbán’s loss in Hungary is ‘wake-up call for Americans’ ahead of midterms

Allison Detzel

Vice President JD Vance attends a joint press conference.

JD Vance’s latest failures join a growing and embarrassing list of Trump-imposed flops

Steve Benen

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents patrol LaGuardia Airport.

ICE reportedly targets ‘birth tourism’ amid Trump’s attacks on birthright citizenship

Ja'han Jones

A ship waits to pass through the Strait of Hormuz in Oman.

After White House’s ‘A team’ comes up empty in Iran talks, Trump launches blockade

Steve Benen

Sean Duffy speaks to the United States Merchant Marine Academy Class of 2025.

For help with FAA staffing shortages, Trump administration turns to gamers

Ja'han Jones

MPD Chief of Police Pamela Smith and U.S. Capitol Police Chief Michael Sullivan attend a news conference at the Department of Justice.

The Trump DOJ is right: Mass Jan. 6 pardon shouldn’t save alleged pipe bomb planter

Jordan Rubin

People of all ages stand in an airplane hangar holding American flags.

Trump’s refugee gatekeeping is starting to pay off — for one very specific ‘minority’ group

Hayes Brown

In this photo shot from below Donald Trump is seen talking in front of an American flag on a pole and making a gesture with his hands.

Trump looks ahead to next military ‘conquest’ amid efforts to preserve a ceasefire in Iran

Steve Benen

A close-up of Donald Trump looking ahead.

Trump tried a new tariff strategy, but it still landed in court

Fallon Gallagher

President Donald Trump exits the White House to board Marine One as he departs from the South Lawn.

Federal judge rejects Trump’s dubious defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal

Steve Benen

Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer.

Democrats need to start planning now for a return to power

Symone D. Sanders Townsend

Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, looks down.

Man accused in Molotov cocktail attack of OpenAI CEO’s home opposed AI, court documents say

The Associated Press

A National Park Service ranger places rainbow flags on the fence at the Stonewall National Monument in Lower Manhattan.

Pride flag to be reinstated at Stonewall National Monument

Erum Salam

Hakeem Jeffries, from the torso up, wags his pointer finger.

Jeffries argues the GOP started the gerrymandering fight — and Democrats will ‘finish it’

Kevin Frey & Peggy Helman

Photoillustration of Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson on a tan background. Donald Trump has a storm cloud over his head, and Tucker Carlson has a check mark over his head.

The sneaky reason Tucker Carlson and other far-right voices are criticizing Trump

Nicole Hemmer

‘Abuse of trust’: The Weeknight reacts to misconduct scandals driving Swalwell and Gonzales out

Hillary Clinton tells MS NOW Orbán’s defeat is a ‘wake-up call for Americans’

Why this economic expert says to expect increase in grocery prices by April 29

‘Not a chance Trump’s not upset’: First lady’s former top aide talks surprise Epstein speech

Georgia Democrat reflects on overperformance in election: ‘All about kitchen table issues’

‘Ridiculous’: Trump attends UFC fight as peace talks collapse with Iran

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    Trump’s pivot on Venezuela’s Delcy Rodriguez undercuts what leverage the U.S. still has

    Retired Amb. James Story

  2. Donald Trump, walks forward as Eric and Don Jr. follow him, emerging from behind a blue curtain.

    Why Fox News won’t cover the Trump family’s conflicts of interest

    Matt Gertz

  3. NASA's Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft at night.

    Trump’s proposed NASA budget cuts are an insult to the achievements of Artemis II

    Bill Nye

  4. Chris Van Hollen.

    Democrats are falling for a familiar trap on tax cuts

    Zeeshan Aleem

  5. Photoillustration of a young man with collaged assets depicting the Supreme Court surrounding him. Overlaid are horizontal colored rainbow blocks.

    The Supreme Court’s conversion therapy ruling opens the floodgates for new horrors

    Hannah Holland

  6. Photoillustration of Donald Trump inside of a caution sign overlaid on a camouflage background.

    Trump’s genocidal threat to Iran may have caused irreparable damage

    Lt. Col. Rachel E. VanLandingham (ret.)

  7. A photo illustration that rips a photo of Donald Trump holding a stack of papers.

    DOJ just opened the door to Trump taking his White House secrets home

    Hayes Brown

  8. Photoillustration of the moon, bright, above a darkened and depressed-looking Earth.

    The Artemis II astronauts offer a temporary antidote to Trump’s view of humanity

    Hayes Brown

  9. Photoillustration of Kanye West on stage in front of fans. To the left, there is a filmstrip of a few of his controversial moments, including in the White House with Donald Trump.

    Kanye West’s celebrity concert guests are telling on themselves

    Mychal Denzel Smith

  10. Pete Hegseth gestures with his hand while speaking into a microphone.

    This rare species may be extinct by the time Pete Hegseth is done

    Derrick Z. Jackson

  11. One player hold the championship trophy as he stands among his teammates.

    Trump is blatantly trying to punish Black college athletes

    Kevin B. Blackistone

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