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Trump’s Plan to Sell Out Ukraine to Russia

His proposal to end the war isn’t a peace plan—it’s a reward for aggression.

Tesla’s Remarkably Bad Quarter Is Even Worse Than It Looks

Reality is catching up with Elon Musk.

Musk’s High-Tech Polygamy Is a Dead End

The billionaire’s vision of family is bad for women and children.

Congressional Republicans Might Set Off the Debt Bomb

Their new budget framework is the most irresponsible in modern history—and will put the American economy on a very dangerous trajectory.

Trump Is Attempting to Use Wartime Powers in the United States

To serve his deportation agenda, the president is warping an archaic, discredited law.

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