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| Title | Date published | ||
| Dial M for Mortgage Fraud | 2025-08-28 | ||
| Is This Martial Law? | 2025-08-21 | ||
| Gabfest Reads | The Four Years That Changed New York City Forever | 2025-08-16 | ||
| Humvees on the National Mall | 2025-08-15 | ||
| Putting the BS in BLS | 2025-08-07 | ||
| Gaza is Starving | 2025-07-31 | ||
| Is John Roberts to Blame for Everything? | 2025-07-24 | ||
| Gabfest Reads | A Beach Read for the Outraged | 2025-07-19 | ||
| MAGA’s Epstein Obsession | 2025-07-17 | ||
| Who Wants a Third Party, Anyway? | 2025-07-10 | ||
| Is Trump’s Reckless Bill Unpopular? | 2025-07-03 | ||
| Let’s Plunge, New York | 2025-06-26 | ||
| Gabfest Reads | Alison Bechdel Explains Selling Out the Progressive Way | 2025-06-21 | ||
| Massive Ordnance Penetrator | 2025-06-19 | ||
| Very Heavy Force | 2025-06-12 | ||
| Republicans vs. the Big Beautiful Bill | 2025-06-05 | ||
| Why Destroy Harvard? | 2025-05-29 | ||
| Big and Beautiful or Huge and Horrendous | 2025-05-22 | ||
| Gabfest Reads | How to Create an Exceptional Family | 2025-05-17 | ||
| Just a Modest $400 Million Gift | 2025-05-15 |