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Rising Star Matt Gaetz Represents Everything That’s Wrong With Trump’s Republican Party
The Florida congressperson tried to expel a grieving father from a hearing on gun violence, and he has voiced racist ideas and conspiracy theories.
Mehdi Hasan
Mehdi Hasan is a former Senior Columnist at The Intercept. He was the host of The Intercept podcast “Deconstructed.” Hasan was also the host of Al Jazeera English’s “UpFront.” He has interviewed, among others, Edward Snowden, Hamid Karzai, Ehud Olmert, and Gen. Michael Flynn. He is also the author of two books: a biography of former U.K. Labor Party leader Ed Miliband and an e-book on the financial crisis and austerity economics. He is based in Washington, D.C.
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The Unbearable Stupidity of Howard Schultz’s Presidential Fantasy
The former Starbucks CEO, a charisma-free zone, would help re-elect Trump. Plus, he's lying about taxes and “Medicare for All.”
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Trump’s Articles of Impeachment Are Writing Themselves, With Echoes of Richard Nixon Growing Stronger
BuzzFeed News dropped one of the biggest bombshells of the Trump presidency: that Donald Trump asked Michael Cohen to lie to Congress.
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John Bolton Wants to Bomb Iran — and He May Get What He Wants
Bolton has outlasted James Mattis and John Kelly, and the Trump administration is now filled with hard-liners who want to attack Iran.
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Who Are the Top 10 Democratic Presidential Contenders for 2020?
Who is going to be the Democratic presidential candidate in the 2020 election? Here are Mehdi Hasan’s top 10 picks.
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Mike Pompeo Lied About the U.S. and the Middle East. Here’s the Truth.
Trump’s secretary of state gave a speech in Cairo that obscured the U.S. role in the Middle East. America has not been a force for good.
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Critics Say Bernie Sanders Is Too Old, Too White, and Too Socialist to Run for President in 2020. They're Wrong.
Ignore the polls that put Joe Biden on top. While it's a fool's game to predict winners, Bernie Sanders is the frontrunner right now.
Israel’s War on Gaza
The Truth About Israel, Boycotts, and BDS
Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are the first House members to support the BDS movement. Mehdi Hasan debunks some of the controversies surrounding BDS.
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Elizabeth Warren Has a Track Record of Taking on the Rich and Powerful. Don’t Write Her Off for 2020.
Sen. Warren stumbled with a DNA test on her Native American ancestry. But she's harder on Wall Street than Kamala Harris and Cory Booker combined.
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John Kelly Was a Bully, Bigot, and Liar for Trump. Goodbye and Good Riddance.
The departing White House chief of staff was Trump’s nasty and brutish mini-me. He was never the “adult in the room.”