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Texas lawmakers pass new electoral map intended to favour Republicans
Move aims to flip five Democratic-held house seats to Republican control in next year’s midterms
The Haves and Have-Yachts. Dispatches on the Ultrarich: How Trump exploited mass-manipulation to stoke culture wars
Evan Osnos shows how social media is at the core of Republicans’ drive to destroy human empathy with maximum misinformation and minimum civil discourse
Opposition must be wary of slating Trump’s Washington DC crackdown
I find myself packing pepper spray again
Trump sends troops into Washington DC: distraction tactic or part of wider policy?
Decision to dispatch National Guard welcomed by supporters; others suspect operation is attempt to deflect questions about Epstein
Buckley by Sam Tanenhaus: A masterclass in showing over telling
William F Buckley was the leading right-wing intellectual of the post-second World War United States
Humourless raging against Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle jeans ad is pointless
The actor’s jeans ad is not proof that ‘woke’ is dead
Texan Democrats flee state to stop ‘racist gerrymandered’ election remapping
State governor calls for arrests after exodus of Democratic lawmakers seeks to block Republican Bill that would redraw electoral districts
Why so many are shocked at Marco Rubio’s role in implementing new US worldview
Once an advocate of US soft power, the secretary of state is implementing Maga values from isolationism to impatience with foreign aid
Epstein saga has exposed cracks in Maga movement which could fatally undermine Donald Trump
No one is more aware of this than Trump himself, which explains his bizarre rants about Obama this week
Maga fans turn on Trump as he turns murky over Epstein files
Donald Trump has long trafficked in conspiracy theories and now he’s been sucked into a whirlpool of dark innuendo
Republicans’ rush to shift stance on Ukraine shows Trump’s iron grip on party
Pivots have been jarring, particularly for those whose criticism of military aid was central to their political brand
Trump’s big, beautiful Bill could be the Republicans’ undoing in mid-term elections
The passage of the Bill leads to massive, ugly tax cuts for American aristocrats
US tariff receipts surge in Donald Trump’s trade war
Figures show record $24.2bn raised from the levies in May but highlight potential for distortion to global trade flows
Trump takes ‘big beautiful Bill’ victory lap as his grip on power tightens
Trump is scheduled to sign the budget Bill on Independence Day when Americans now look more divided than ever
US Senate passes Trump’s sweeping tax and spending Bill
Package, passed after days of haggling, goes back to House of Representatives for final approva
‘A massive mistake’: Sole Republican holdout coming under fire over Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
Republican senator Thom Tillis renounces budget Bill, as Elon Musk vows to unseat legislators who support it
Trump’s F-bomb: The US didn’t faint when the president swore on live TV. How unexpectedly unprissy of it
The United States’ official puritanism sits uneasily with a wider nation that can be more creatively profane than any other in the Anglosphere
Trump’s perfectly landed swear word was his best performance yet
Politicians like Holly Cairns or Keir Starmer could meet the threat of the populist right with a lighter tone and a joke or two
Trump and Netanyahu should beware of the unintended consequences of their actions in Iran
Worldview: Donald Trump must steer a path between the domestic promise of no more foreign wars and Netanyahu’s serial gambles on his support in Gaza and Iran
How the culture war is remaking advertising
Brands are diluting or scrapping campaigns with social purpose as the movement against DEI intensifies
I gave my friends hats which said ‘Make America Hate Again’. That’s what Trump is trying to do
I find it hard to understand how public opinion in America is not revolted by events such as the $200 million ‘gift’ of a jumbo jet that will become the president’s private property
Kingspan embraces Donald Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’
Companies’ views of tax bill will mean little in the shadow of the Trump-Musk feud
Elon Musk says Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ tax and spending Bill is a ‘disgusting abomination’
Musk’s online outburst comes as Republicans continue crucial negotiations over Bill on Capitol Hill
Did the media fail to do its job covering Joe Biden’s decline?
The ill health of US presidents has been kept from journalists on a number of occasions
Top Republicans threaten to block Trump’s spending bill if national debt is not reduced
‘We have enough to stop process until president gets serious about reducing deficit’
Maureen Dowd: Trump is a pro at quid pro quo
The US president is estimated to have added billions to his personal fortune in office, including by selling cryptocurrency
Donald Trump pressures Republicans to back his ‘big, beautiful’ tax Bill
Hardline Republicans demand deeper cuts to Medicaid and other social security programmes
The new White House influencer briefings are a terrible look
These propaganda dissemination sessions are more suited to Pyongyang
Wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia caught up in one of US’s key ideological flashpoints
Mistakenly deported to his native El Salvador, Abrego Garcia remains in prison while Republicans and Democrats argue over what the case says about where the US is going under Donald Trump
So much about Donald Trump just does not add up
With his miscalculations on trade tariffs, tax cuts and more, the future of the US is at stake
A 145% US tariff on China will hit Apple, and Ireland’s corporation tax
If 20% EU rate is reinstated, it would be best to wait for US consumers to feel the pinch
Tariff war a major self-inflicted wound for the United States
Warning signs that this was where American was headed have been there since the days of the Tea Party and Glenn Beck
Trump tariffs: On Wednesday, it was liberation. On Thursday, golf
‘Liberation Day’: The fallout from Trump’s scorched earth economic protectionist policy
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