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America Is a Failed State with Good Branding
Legibility, collapse, and the death spiral of American governance
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June 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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There’s No Civility Clause for Fascists
It’s not offensive to call Stephen Miller hateful. It’s offensive to pretend he’s not.
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June 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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The Climate Crisis Needs a Reckoning, Not a Fungus
Plastic-eating microbes can’t unmake a broken system.
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June 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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The Market for Hope Is in Recession
Why the most adaptive ideology of the 21st century builds nothing and changes nothing.
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June 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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The Most Privileged Lie in America
Anti-vaxx isn’t skepticism. It’s a luxury belief built on borrowed immunity.
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June 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Air-Raid Sirens and Sound Bites
As Ukraine suffers its worst bombardment yet, Trump complains about socks and semiconductor supply.
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June 3, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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The Soft Sell of Hard Power
Ross Douthat’s uncritical platform for Vice President Vance’s illiberal agenda.
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June 3, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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The Unlearning of America
How the war on expertise hollowed out public service and rewired the political brain.
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May 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Trump’s Selective Antisemitism
Trump’s double game is about dominance, not protection
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May 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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The Inevitability of Donald Trump
From Limbaugh to MAGA: the long arc of manufactured grievance.
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May 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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No, Donald Trump Is Not America’s Most Left-Wing President.
The Telegraph thinks a tax-dodging billionaire who guts worker protections is the new FDR. Is anyone buying that?
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May 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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An America of Tanks and Taxes
$45 million in pageantry, 6,500 troops, and 25 Abrams tanks—while 7.7 million Americans lose Medicaid.
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May 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Even a Broken Clock Can Lower Drug Prices
Trump’s proposal to fix the drug pricing scam is flawed, but the backlash says more than the plan ever could.
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May 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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The Tariff Delusion
Behind the smiling handshakes, America’s new trade doctrine is weaponized chaos.
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May 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Scott Bessent Is Selling You a Lie
Trump’s Treasury Secretary repackages economic failure as strategy—and hopes you won’t notice.
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May 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Donald Trump Is a Man in Decline
Donald Trump says he doesn’t know if he must uphold the Constitution. That’s not a gaffe—it’s cognitive collapse.
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May 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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The Abortion Pill Is Medicine, Not Poison
How right-wing media weaponizes fear and faith to wage war on reproductive freedom.
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May 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Rebuke.
Three elections. One message. The U.S. right wing has become the world’s cautionary tale.
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May 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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The Cost of Freedom, in Metric Tons
Ukraine’s rare earth deal looks like recovery—until you read the fine print.
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May 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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We Read the NYT’s Trump Voter Focus Group So You Don’t Have To
When fact-free grievance is treated like perspective, democracy loses.
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May 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Trump’s Executive Order Isn’t About Crime. It’s About Crushing Democracy.
Militarized policing, federal overreach, and the slow death of civilian oversight.
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May 7, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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A War on Welfare, Wrapped in Fatphobia
How the Wall Street Journal dresses up fatphobia and class contempt as nutrition policy
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May 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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The Midterms Are Coming. The GOP Is Going to Cheat.
What the GOP is planning for 2026 and 2028 makes 2020 look quaint.
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May 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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No, Tom Friedman, Robotaxis Won't Save Democracy
How the New York Times' star columnist invented a new political identity to avoid confronting the realities of Trump's America
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May 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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America's Next Top Conman
Trump wasn’t an accident. He was a feature, not a bug.
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April 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM