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Samarth Gupta is a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. He served as a policy advisor at the Treasury Department from 2022 to 2025.

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Photoillustration of hundred-dollar and one-dollar bills in brackets, surrounded by brackets of different fonts.

The quiet collapse at the heart of America’s tax code

Samarth Gupta

Photoillustration of three heads of Donald Trump, merged together, stuck within a spinning globe.

Iran doesn’t believe Trump. That’s about to become very dangerous.

Nicholas Grossman

A man walks walks in a building destroyed in a joint attack by Israel and the United States in Tehran.

Trump says Iran war ‘very close to over,’ mediators reportedly move toward ceasefire extension

The Associated Press

Tulsi Gabbard. Only her face is visible, as she is partially obscured by shapes in front of the camera.

Gabbard revives ‘deep state’ conspiracy claims, alarming Democrats who see a pattern

David Rohde

Gabbard reaches new low, aids Trump campaign to ‘expunge’ his first impeachment

Steve Benen

Lawrence: Tulsi Gabbard again refuses to admit Trump lied about an ‘imminent threat’ in Iran

JD Vance; Pope Leo.

Vance ups the ante, presses pope to be ‘careful when he talks about matters of theology’

Steve Benen

Russell Vought, seen at profile, sits in front of a microphone.

Democrats to confront Trump budget director Russ Vought about his ‘stone cold silence’

Jack Fitzpatrick

A photo collage of Tony Gonzales and Eric Swalwell surrounded by imagery of The United States Capitol.

Inside the Capitol Hill pressure campaign to push out Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales

Mychael Schnell & Syedah Ashgar

The Albina Bulk carrier sits anchored at Sultan Qaboos Port in Muscat, Oman.

Trump’s naval blockade is a disaster in the making

Zeeshan Aleem

President Donald Trump speaks into a microphone, only the lower half of his face visible.

Trump thought he could bully the pope. Leo called his bluff.

Michael Steele

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Peter Magyar speaks during the press conference in Budapest.

New Hungarian PM says government was funding CPAC but won’t anymore

Ja'han Jones

Donald Trump outside, seen from a low angle.

Trump confronts a public conversation he hoped to avoid over his mental stability

Steve Benen

Judge James E. Boasberg stands for a portrait.

Trump judges give Trump officials a ‘Hail Mary pass’ to avoid contempt inquiry

Jordan Rubin

Gas prices are displayed at a Shell gas station on March 30, 2026 in Calif.

White House starts preparing the public for persistently high gas prices

Steve Benen

Vice President JD Vance speaks to the media as President Donald Trump looks on during a ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House.

JD Vance tries and fails to clean up Trump’s religious messes, scolds Pope Leo

Steve Benen

An aerial photo of two people installing solar panels onto the roof of a house.

Trump just made energy a top issue for Democrats in November

Akayla Gardner

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

The backlash to Trump’s ‘blasphemous’ meme was a long time coming. He just didn’t know it.

Jarvis DeBerry

Lonna Drewes looks down; a photo of her and Rep. Eric Swalwell is visible in the background.

Woman says Swalwell drugged and raped her; plans to file police report

Erum Salam

The Department of Justice in the early hours of the morning.

DOJ paid more than $1 million in settlement to anti-abortion protester — after a federal judge tossed his suit

Julianne McShane

Rafael Grossi, a man with glasses and wearing a suit, gestures toward the camera.

U.N. nuclear chief urges strict Iran checks in any deal to end war

The Associated Press

Rep. Jamie Raskin speaks during a bicameral hearing on the Justice Department.

Raskin sets up long-shot process to remove Trump from office using 25th Amendment

Mychael Schnell

Three pro-Trump protesters are silhouetted against a cloudy sky while holding a flagpole with the American flag and one saying "Liberty or Death." The Washington Monument is visible in the background.

Justice Department moves to erase Jan. 6 convictions of Oath Keepers, Proud Boys leaders

Erum Salam

Photoillustration of J.D. Vance looking downtrodden in calendar day blocks.

Vance’s weekend may have been even worse than it seemed

Hayes Brown

Bondi skips deposition as top Oversight Democrat calls her ‘mastermind of White House coverup’

‘Are you a king in medieval Europe?’: Joe stunned by Vance’s message to Pope

Lawrence: British Parliament Member calls Trump ‘a dangerous and corrupt gangster’ over Iran war

Trump teases another round of Iran talks amid U.S. blockade

‘It offended me’: Trump supporters react to AI Jesus post
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban

Maddow: Trump’s fear is palpable as authoritarian peer Orbán is resoundingly rejected in Hungary

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    How Péter Magyar brought down Trump’s favorite European strongman

    Julia Sonnevend

  2. Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer.

    Democrats need to start planning now for a return to power

    Symone D. Sanders Townsend

  3. 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

  4. 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

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

    Retired Amb. James Story

  6. A person waving a Hungarian flag celebrates among a crowd of other people.

    Viktor Orbán’s loss is democracy’s gain

    Michael McFaul

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Chris Van Hollen.

    Democrats are falling for a familiar trap on tax cuts

    Zeeshan Aleem

  10. 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.)

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

    Hayes Brown

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