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Twenty-year practicing psychotherapist Elliott Connie, who offers short, easy-to-understand analyses of the brain and how people think, sees a clear example of how words can manipulate people.
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President Donald Trump’s administration is hoping to keep hundreds of messages about the controversial Kennedy Center takeover a secret as a new federal court showdown over the president’s plan to shut down the landmark continues.
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President Donald Trump's Justice Department is "simply dead wrong" on every count in their new election meddling lawsuit, according to CNN analyst Elie Honig, who argued that the law it has hinged its case on "has nothing to do with" the situation it is trying to apply it to.
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President Donald Trump has "done great damage to Christian witness" alongside the "catastrophic damage" he has done to the country as a whole, but as one Christian political activist wrote for The Hill, a "turning point" is coming soon away from this destructive "corruption."
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On Monday, a new report revealed a rising crisis in MAGA world.
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Ever since President Donald Trump announced that he is renaming the Department of Defense as the Department of War, he and Secretary of Defense have aroused controversy, particularly when they have tried to casually use the moniker "Department of War" in official documents.
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President Donald Trump has relied heavily on Catholic voters to win power in the White House, but now many Catholic leaders are turning on the president — including the one who presides over the region that includes Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida."I wish to remind all th...
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A new profile in The New Yorker examines the role of Charles Kushner, father of President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, who's served as U.S. ambassador to France since 2025.Discussing Trump's ambassador appointees, Eric Rubin, a former U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria, t...
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On Monday, a top Republican official found himself flailing to defend President Donald Trump and the GOP’s inattention to the economic suffering of Americans.
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Even though billionaire David Ellison is widely criticized for seemingly turning CBS News into a pro-President Donald Trump outlet, he is reportedly going full steam ahead with plans to streamline CBS News and presumably also make it more MAGA."David Ellison is offering buyout...
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On Monday, a widely cited psychologist warned that President Donald Trump is displaying “more signs of apparent neurological decline.”
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Former CIA Director John Brennan joined MS NOW on Monday to discuss President Donald Trump’s strategy and the Justice Department’s actions as the midterm elections approach. Brennan served in his role from 2013 to 2017.Anchor Alicia Menendez explained that DOJ guidance general...
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President Donald Trump's ongoing attempts to successfully prosecute former FBI Director James Comey experienced another twist on Monday when the Justice Department again filed charges against him.
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In this AlterNet exclusive, a forensic psychologist exposes the chilling motivation behind the former president's wildest whims.
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President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he is pursuing a third prosecution against former FBI Director James Comey, this time accusing the bureaucrat who arguably helped him win the 2016 presidential election, and whose subsequent firing led to another FBI investigatio...
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Trump has not only failed to reverse the trends that are causing its staffing crisis, they have actually been pressuring one of the Justice Department's top immigration judges into leaving her job — at a time when their immigration policies are already widely criticized as cruel.
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How a major shift in Washington's establishment has left the legal community reeling
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Richard Nixon used a shocking, secret strategy to stop a looming global financial collapse—so what is holding Trump back from doing the exact same thing today? In this AlterNet exclusive, historian Luke Nichter explains why.
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Nobody, except his fanbase, likes this guy.
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When the president of the United States are in retreat mode, whether we know it or not, we’re in a different world.
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