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Calling This Court "Supreme" Is Obeying in Advance • When will legal elites stop passing off tyranny in robes as the rule of law?
Calling This Court "Supreme" Is Obeying in Advance
When will legal elites stop passing off tyranny in robes as the rule of law?
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November 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Calling This Court "Supreme" Is Obeying in Advance • When will legal elites stop passing off tyranny in robes as the rule of law?
Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight • “Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.
Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight
“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight • “Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.
Jimmy Kimmel Live! Lives On While the Oligarchs' Power Grab Rolls On • What the Kimmel dustup tells us about the demise of free speech
Jimmy Kimmel Live! Lives On While the Oligarchs' Power Grab Rolls On
What the Kimmel dustup tells us about the demise of free speech
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November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Jimmy Kimmel Live! Lives On While the Oligarchs' Power Grab Rolls On • What the Kimmel dustup tells us about the demise of free speech
Shadows and Shadow Casters • Politics is about power.
Shadows and Shadow Casters
Politics is about power.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Shadows and Shadow Casters • Politics is about power.
Monsters and Their Enablers • A Weekend Reading Reboot
Monsters and Their Enablers
A Weekend Reading Reboot
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November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Monsters and Their Enablers • A Weekend Reading Reboot
Trump’s Split with Leonard Leo Is No Victory for the Rule of Law • The enemy of your enemy is not always your friend.
Trump’s Split with Leonard Leo Is No Victory for the Rule of Law
The enemy of your enemy is not always your friend.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Trump’s Split with Leonard Leo Is No Victory for the Rule of Law • The enemy of your enemy is not always your friend.
The Trump Regime’s War on Working People: The First 100 Days • How Unions are Resisting Authoritarian Attacks on Workers’ Rights—and Why It Matters for Everyone
The Trump Regime’s War on Working People: The First 100 Days
How Unions are Resisting Authoritarian Attacks on Workers’ Rights—and Why It Matters for Everyone
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November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The Trump Regime’s War on Working People: The First 100 Days • How Unions are Resisting Authoritarian Attacks on Workers’ Rights—and Why It Matters for Everyone
From “Deportation” to Abduction • How the media and consultant class’s poll-washing enabled the abduction of Kilmar Abrego Garcia—and what comes next
From “Deportation” to Abduction
How the media and consultant class’s poll-washing enabled the abduction of Kilmar Abrego Garcia—and what comes next
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November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
From “Deportation” to Abduction • How the media and consultant class’s poll-washing enabled the abduction of Kilmar Abrego Garcia—and what comes next
America’s Second “Redemption” • There have been two long marches to Reconstruction in American history—and two swift, brutal backlashes. We are in the middle of the second.
America’s Second “Redemption”
There have been two long marches to Reconstruction in American history—and two swift, brutal backlashes. We are in the middle of the second.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
America’s Second “Redemption” • There have been two long marches to Reconstruction in American history—and two swift, brutal backlashes. We are in the middle of the second.
The Courts Will Not Save Us • We must resist the learned helplessness of judicial supremacy.
The Courts Will Not Save Us
We must resist the learned helplessness of judicial supremacy.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The Courts Will Not Save Us • We must resist the learned helplessness of judicial supremacy.
Oligarchs Understand Power. Do We? • Unions make us strong.
Oligarchs Understand Power. Do We?
Unions make us strong.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Oligarchs Understand Power. Do We? • Unions make us strong.
Don’t Praise in Advance • A Cure for Mad Surrender Disease
Don’t Praise in Advance
A Cure for Mad Surrender Disease
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November 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Don’t Praise in Advance • A Cure for Mad Surrender Disease
Change No One Would Have Believed • Audacious hopes recede in the rear view mirror
Change No One Would Have Believed
Audacious hopes recede in the rear view mirror
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November 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Change No One Would Have Believed • Audacious hopes recede in the rear view mirror
Virtual Event Thursday, Jan. 16: The U.S. Judiciary and Democratic Backsliding • Join me and two panels of top experts to discuss how captured courts enable autocracy, at home and abroad.
Virtual Event Thursday, Jan. 16: The U.S. Judiciary and Democratic Backsliding
Join me and two panels of top experts to discuss how captured courts enable autocracy, at home and abroad.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Virtual Event Thursday, Jan. 16: The U.S. Judiciary and Democratic Backsliding • Join me and two panels of top experts to discuss how captured courts enable autocracy, at home and abroad.
Outrunning the Bear • A recording from my live conversation with Chris Cillizza
Outrunning the Bear
A recording from my live conversation with Chris Cillizza
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November 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Outrunning the Bear • A recording from my live conversation with Chris Cillizza
How Trump “Won” • The Anesthetized Anti-MAGA Majority
How Trump “Won”
The Anesthetized Anti-MAGA Majority
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November 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
How Trump “Won” • The Anesthetized Anti-MAGA Majority
This Is NOT a Year-End Appeal • I’ll be honest with you—these are some of the best charts from Weekend Reading this year.
This Is NOT a Year-End Appeal
I’ll be honest with you—these are some of the best charts from Weekend Reading this year.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This Is NOT a Year-End Appeal • I’ll be honest with you—these are some of the best charts from Weekend Reading this year.
The Great Forgetting • The Lost Years
The Great Forgetting
The Lost Years
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November 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The Great Forgetting • The Lost Years
Is This What Democracy Looks Like? • If we don't like it, it's "just too bad." -John Roberts
Is This What Democracy Looks Like?
If we don't like it, it's "just too bad." -John Roberts
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November 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Is This What Democracy Looks Like? • If we don't like it, it's "just too bad." -John Roberts