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What you need to know (and didn’t read) about Trump’s new tariffs
The first thing you need to know about Trump’s sweeping new tariffs is that they are based on a bald-faced lie. No one believes that Trump gives a damn about other countries’ steps to curb forced labor. That’s the ostensible legal justifica...
When fact-checking is not enough
Most mainstream news organizations did an admirable job of fact-checking Donald Trump’s speech full of election lies Thursday night — and not just in sidebars, but in their lead stories.
That was a pleasant surprise.
Quite a few of them e...
The headlines should have been: 'Trump makes crackpot Iran announcement'
Well, it’s moot now, with Donald Trump this morning suddenly reversing his big announcement yesterday morning that the U.S. military would be taking over the Strait of Hormuz and demanding a 20 percent toll from ships that pass through it....
Say it: We’re back where we were before the ceasefire. It’s called war.
U.S. armed forces have hit more than 170 targets in Iran over the last two days. Iran has fired missiles and drones at Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Jordan after firing at three tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.
There’s no end in sight.
It s...
Trump’s crazed lies about ‘communists’ demand media debunking
Sen. Joseph McCarthy speaks to reporters.
Donald Trump’s latest Big Lie is that Democrats are godless communists who want to destroy the country. They are animals, thieves, and lunatics who want to kill Christians, he says. They pose the g...
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