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Jonathan Chait
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Staff writer for the Atlantic. Messages with links are intended as prompts to read the linked story, not self-contained arguments substituting for the linked story.
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Please, Not Another Kennedy
Nancy Pelosi reportedly plans to endorse JFK’s grandson for Congress. Why?
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February 10, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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All My Ex–Democratic Saviors Live in Texas
Once again, the party’s statewide candidates seem to have grander ambitions than victory.
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February 5, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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Trump’s Crypto Defenses Aren’t Reassuring
An Abu Dhabi royal seems to have gotten what he paid for, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
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February 3, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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Katie Miller Thinks Classical Liberalism Is Woke
Does she oppose Enlightenment virtues, as her X posts suggest? Or is she just confused?
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January 30, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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Trump Blinks
The president’s retreat in Minneapolis is a stinging defeat for the national conservatives.
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January 27, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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What MAGA Really Thinks of the Second Amendment
Now Americans know.
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January 25, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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Why Conservatives Defend ICE
Republicans deplore the mayhem in Minnesota—but blame protesters and Democrats for it.
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January 22, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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Gavin Newsom’s Record Is a Problem
The California governor’s pivot to the center may be too late for 2028.
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January 22, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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What Elizabeth Warren Gets Wrong About Democrats
Moderates sometimes disagree with progressives even when billionaires don’t tell them to.
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January 15, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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Jeff Bezos Needs to Speak Up
The raid on a Washington Post reporter’s home is deeply troubling.
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January 15, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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I've written hundreds and hundreds of columns, dating back to March 2016, calling Trump a dangerous authoritarian. I don't know how to describe @ryanlcooper.com except as a straight liar.
January 14, 2026 at 2:49 AM
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Trump’s Desperate Attempt to Bully the Fed
A criminal investigation of Jerome Powell will test whether Republican loyalty to the president has any limits.
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January 12, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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Trump’s Shrinking Coalition
The president can no longer present himself as anti-system, because he has become the system.
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January 12, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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Trump’s Slippery Definition of ‘Patriots’ and ‘Terrorists’
The president has interesting ideas about who constitutes an enemy of the state.
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January 8, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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Trump’s Retro Imperialism
The president holds some misguided views about wealth, power, and natural resources.
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January 5, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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The Show Won’t Go On
President Trump’s threats against artists who decline to perform at the renamed Kennedy Center are ultimately hollow.
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December 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Higgins has alerted me that @timmiller.bsky.social is a very loyal conservative Republican whose views have not changed at all. I apologize for the error.
eoinhiggins.bsky.social Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · Dec 24
In this hypothetical Chait can’t be referring to Tim Miller, former Republican operative, Jeb Bush 2016 comms director, and and right-wing PR bag man, as a “skeptic of conservativism”… right?
December 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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"Weiss is following a long-standing instinct to turn every Trump abuse into a debate, a generosity she does not afford targets on the left...impossible to take her objections at face value given the context in which she's operating."
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Stop Defending Bari Weiss
It is impossible to take her actions at face value given the context in which she is operating.
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December 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Stop Defending Bari Weiss
It is impossible to take her actions at face value given the context in which she is operating.
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December 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Trump’s Plan to Corrupt the Media Is Starting to Work
CBS pulled a critical story after the president complained about the network’s coverage.
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December 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Like the Iraq War, but Worse
The administration’s justifications for attacking Venezuela feel familiar, but nakedly imperialistic.
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December 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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The Real Revelation in the Susie Wiles Interviews
It’s not the crime, but the cover-up.
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December 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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The Indiana Vote Is an Inflection Point
The spines of the state’s Republicans stiffened where so many others snapped.
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December 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Obamacare Changed the Politics of Health Care
It’s one thing for Republicans to deny hypothetical care. It’s another to take this tangible benefit away.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Trump’s Toddler Foreign Policy
To better understand why the president is inexplicably going after Venezuela, one must study the behavior of small children.
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December 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM