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John Regier

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The Conservative Movement’s Intellectual Collapse

Trump is both a product and a cause of the decline in intellectual standards on the right.

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November 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM

John Regier

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Pundit Brain Continues to Afflict Nation

People who know a lot and care a lot about politics want to believe that the average voter does too. But it isn't true.

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November 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM

John Regier

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United Methodists ratify plan to unify denomination while decentering US church

(RNS) — Under the new restructuring plan, called 'regionalization,' the denomination's nine regions will be equal partners with greater freedom to tailor church life to their own customs and tradition...

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November 14, 2025 at 4:07 AM

John Regier

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www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The Dumb Truth at the Heart of the Epstein Scandal

When QAnon meets Veep

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November 14, 2025 at 3:29 AM

John Regier

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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/o...

Opinion | The China That the World Sees Is Not the One I Live In

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November 14, 2025 at 3:19 AM

John Regier

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www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The Mafia Presidency

Trump is saying, essentially, If you don’t want to get hurt, you’ll do what I say.

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November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM

John Regier

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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...

Opinion | Trumpism Will Be With Us for a Very Long Time

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November 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM

John Regier

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...

Opinion | Trump Posted a Video of Himself Dumping Excrement on Our Cities. It’s a Glimpse of His Deepest Drives.

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November 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM

John Regier

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...

Opinion | How a Fringe Movement of Gun Nuts, Backwoodsmen and Free Marketers Paved the Way for Autocracy

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November 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM

John Regier

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www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

What the Left Still Doesn’t Get About Winning

Mamdani won by a modest margin in a deeply blue city not because of his radical commitments, but despite them.

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November 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM

John Regier

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law

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November 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM

John Regier

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Trump Does Not Want This Obamacare Fight

But his generalized animosity for the opposing party has overwhelmed his instinct for political survival.

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October 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM

John Regier

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Trump and Stephen Miller Thought Immigration Was Their Winning Issue. They Were Wrong.

The more extreme and visible their deportation agenda becomes, the more the American people are turning against it.

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October 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM

John Regier

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...

Opinion | There’s a Reason Trump Fears No Kings

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October 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM

John Regier

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“Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here.”

My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.

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October 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM

John Regier

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Why Trump Turned to the Sewer

The president’s disturbing, excremental propaganda campaign

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October 21, 2025 at 12:20 AM

John Regier

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“The sanctuary movement to protect unauthorized migrants was born in 1981 as a Christian response to atrocities occurring in Central America.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/m...

What Trump’s War on Sanctuary Cities Is Really About

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October 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM

John Regier

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www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Don’t Blame the Democrats for Trump’s Revenge Tour

Defending Trump’s lawfare as just deserts misremembers what actually happened.

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October 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM

John Regier

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www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The Neighbor From Hell

Israel and the United States delivered a blow to Iran. But it could come back stronger.

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October 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM

John Regier

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The MAGA Influencers Rehabilitating Hitler

A growing constituency on the right wants America to unlearn the lessons of World War II.

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October 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM

John Regier

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www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Intellectual Vacuity of the National Conservatives

The post-liberal American right set out to destroy the guardrails that restrained anti-Semitism, without giving any thought to what might happen next.

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October 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM

John Regier

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www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

You Really Need to See Epstein’s Birthday Book for Yourself

This time, the conspiracy theorists were right.

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October 13, 2025 at 12:51 AM

John Regier

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A thoughtful and hopeful history lesson from John Fabian Witt www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...

Opinion | How to Save the American Experiment

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October 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM

John Regier

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“The best defense against this weapon is solidarity among groups who disagree ferociously on many questions, but who agree on the need to keep America democratic and rebuild institutions and social connections to make democracy more robust.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...