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How Trump Became a Liability for Europe’s Far Right

European fascists find Trump too extremist.

The Living New Deal will hold a webinar on saving the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, the "Sistine Chapel of the New Deal," on Feb. 3 at 8 p.m. EST.

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GSA Art Tours The U.S. General Services Administration cares for the nation's largest public art collection, which spans more than 170 years of American creativity and talent, and includes major holdings of New De...

The GSA is conducting a series of tours of endangered murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, and others at the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building.

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Where a nor’easter will bring heavy snow, strong winds and waves this weekend A potent system will bring the potential for blizzard-like conditions and coastal flooding from parts of the Southeast to New England.

"Bomb cyclone."

It may bypass DC and NYC. But still, is it my imagination or has climate change prompted a terrifying turn in our weather vocabulary?

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On Gutting the Washington Post's International Desk "I can afford to take more risks in pursuit of a story than local journalists."

We pause our regular programming for this word from my stepdaughter.

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For the Sake of Our Money, Scott Bessent Needs to Shut Up The more thuggish the treasury secretary gets, the more reason to fear the economy will tank.

"Bessent previously enjoyed a reputation as the sole grown-up in Trump’s Cabinet. But at Davos last week, Bessent engaged in a frantic sort of MAGA minstrelsy, or possibly he converted under duress into a true-believing thug."

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For the Sake of Our Money, Scott Bessent Needs to Shut Up The more thuggish the treasury secretary gets, the more reason to fear the economy will tank.

The more Scott Bessent acts like a comic-book MAGA blowhard, the more reason you have to worry about your 401(k). My latest explains why our Treasury secretary needs to shut the f—— up before he causes a panic.

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Thank you! I ordered a used copy.

Andrew Ross Sorkin's "1929" is a very absorbing nonfiction narrative that reads like a novel. But when I finished it I still didn't have a clue what caused the stock market crash.

Can anyone recommend a more analytic account incorporating up-to-date research?

Gold Is Booming and That’s Really Bad News Add it to the growing pile of metrics documenting Trump’s economic mismanagement.

The price of gold has gone bonkers. In October I explained why that’s bad.

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Niall Ferguson: How Trump Won Davos I have never before seen a single individual so completely dominate this vast bazaar of the powerful, the wealthy, the famous, and the self-important, writes Niall Ferguson.

A completely ridiculous column by Niall Ferguson.

Those Nine Democrats Were Wrong to Vote the Clintons in Contempt A reluctance to relive the 1990s overwhelms justice, common sense, and good faith.

My latest explains why those 9 House Democrats are wrong, on the merits, to vote for the contempt resolutions against the Clintons (especially the one against Hillary). And I’m a guy who wrote in 1998 that Bill Clinton should resign because of Monicagate.

ICE Launches “Operation Catch of the Day” Targeting the Worst of Worst Criminal Illegal Aliens Across Maine | Homeland Security ICE announced the launch of “Operation Catch of the Day,” an immigration enforcement effort across the state of Maine targeting the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens who have terrorized commu...

“Operation Catch of the Day.” The dehumanizing isn’t subtle.

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Kudos to @timothynoah.bsky.social for originally bringing this travesty to light

Can the Presidential Wrecking Ball Be Stopped? The White House and its now demolished East Wing may be the most high-profile Washington, D.C. building whose architectural identity is threatened by the plans and policies of the current presidential...

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Thank you, Stephanie!

Trump Takes His American Decline Tour to Davos In a sad and seedy music hall performance, a senile autocrat rages against the dimming of his country’s light, as well as his own.

My latest is about the extreme seediness of our president’s music-hall turn at Davos, which before Trump opened his mouth was eclipsed by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s historic speech on the end of America’s (always somewhat leaky) rules-based world order.

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The stunning art trove hidden in a D.C. building marked by Trump for disposal Packed with frescoes, paintings and reliefs, the federal government’s Cohen Building has been called “the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.” Advocates fear these works could be at risk.

Washington Post weighs in on Trump’s planned sale/demolition of the “Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.”

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Trump Takes His American Decline Tour to Davos In a sad and seedy music hall performance, a senile autocrat rages against the dimming of his country’s light, as well as his own.

How Donald Trump at Davos was like Archie Rise at the end of "The Entertainer," the great 1960 movie in which Laurence Olivier portrays a seedy music-hall performer who represents a declining postwar Britain.

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The GSA is offering tours on March 26, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., of the New Deal murals inside the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Office Building, "Sistine Chapel of the New Deal."

Trump is trying to sell the building, or possibly to demolish it and sell the land, so go!

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The worst thing Cabinet secretaries can do right now is pretend a president who threatens war against NATO because (in his own words) he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize is even minimally competent mentally and does not require rapid activation of the 25th amendment.

How the New York Times Screwed Martin Luther King Jr. Why did the Times Magazine reject Martin Luther King's "Letter From Birmingham Jail"?

Happy MLK Day. In commemoration, here’s the story of how the NYT Magazine assigned Martin Luther King to write “Letter From Birmingham Jail” and then blew its chance to publish it through the sort of pompous editorial dithering every freelancer knows all too well.

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Congressional Republicans: Your president has lost his mind. Your choices are: 1.) Pretend it isn’t happening; 2.) Agree with whatever lunacy comes out of his mouth; 3.) Start blocking him and start thinking about removing him from office. If you want a future in politics 3.) is your only path.

Sorry, gold PAINTED.

It was hard plastic, with a gold-plated winged figure to make it look like an athletic trophy.

Trump Announces New European Tariffs in Greenland Standoff; Allies Outraged

Trump announces NATO tariff.

Hey congressional Republicans, how long do you plan on giving free rein to this bat-shit crazy president? When we actually go to war with NATO will we hear so much as a peep from you?

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In 1973 I won an honorable mention trophy at a high school journalism “Write-Off” at Cal-State Fullerton. I threw the thing away when we cleaned out my late parents’ house. Now I wish I’d kept it so I could deposit it at the White House front gate.

I think she understands this just fine.

Machado 'presented' her Nobel Peace Prize medal to Trump, both leaders confirm Does that mean the prize is his now?

Trump will never understand that, deliberately or not, Machado giving him her Nobel is a gesture of supreme contempt—a calculation that this president can be made more sympathetic to her party’s claim on power if she lets him play dress-up with her trinket.

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