December 15, 2025 - Jordan Baker | Jonathan Alter | Victoria Hui
The Hanukkah Terror Attack in Australia | Trump's Disgusting Reaction to the Murders of Rob Reiner and His Wife | Today's Conviction of the Hong Kong Freedom Activist Jimmy Lai
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December 14, 2025 - Charles Kupchan | Sam Rosenthal | Jaz Brisack
An Assessment of Trump's New National Security Strategy | Why Democrats Lost the Last Election and What They Must Do to Win the Next One |Â A Gen Z Union Organizer on Standing Up For a Better Workplace
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December 11, 2025 - David Smilde | Harold Meyerson | Dalia Dassa Kaye
Trump Targets Venezuela's Oil, Intensifying Pressure on Maduro | Why Are Trump and Vance Trashing a "Decaying" Europe When They Have a Better Quality of Life Than We Do? | The Vexed Relationship Between the U.S. and Iran With a Hostility That Has Lasted Longer Than the Cold War
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December 10, 2025 - John Judis | Deb Otis | Nina Burleigh
Will the Anti-Capitalist Gen Z Left Which Has Energized the Democrats Dominate American Politics in the Future? | The Bill Introduced Today for Rank Choice Voting in House and Senate Primaries and General Elections | Will the Release of Records From Maxwell and Epstein Trials Bring Us Closer to Justice For the Victims?
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December 9, 2025 - William LeoGrande | Victor Pickard | Mike Pepi
Trump Says Maduro's Days Are Numbered at War Against Venezuela Could Break Out at Any Time | The Ellison's Have Promised Trump They Will Revamp CNN to Trump's Liking | Australia's Social Media Ban and How the "Tech Left" Can Mobilize Against Techno-Utopianism
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