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Russia Wins When the US Stops Fighting Corruption

Russia Wins When the US Stops Fighting Corruption
20.02.2025 8

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Francis Wilkinson

Don’t Let MAGA Whitewash the Tulsa Race Massacre

In a final gust of truth before MAGA extends its fog of propaganda over Washington, the US Department of Justice this month issued a report on the...

19.01.2025 4

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Francis Wilkinson

America Just Buried Trust Along With Jimmy Carter

President Jimmy Carter’s life mapped the American Century. His funeral Thursday at the National Cathedral in Washington suggests that century, like...

12.01.2025 7

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Francis Wilkinson

MAGA’s Jan. 6 Stories Are Taking a More Dangerous Turn

The construction of the MAGA counternarrative about Jan. 6 has been something of an iterative process. The latest version, which exists alongside...

03.01.2025 3

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Francis Wilkinson

Jimmy Carter Just Got Better With Age

In 2006, Jimmy Carter published a controversial and best-selling book on Palestine with the word “apartheid” in the title. Then he went on a...

31.12.2024 2

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Francis Wilkinson

MAGA’s Orban-esque Plan to Control What Universities Teach

While Republicans have long complained about the academy, Donald Trump, JD Vance and their MAGA followers appear determined to do something about...

23.12.2024 5

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Francis Wilkinson

How We Got to ‘Your Body, My Choice’ From #MeToo

President-elect Donald Trump received more than 77 million votes after having been held liable by a jury for sexual abuse in a civil case. (His...

18.12.2024 10

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Francis Wilkinson

Trump’s Cabinet Blitz Is Straight From Orban's Playbook

Kim Lane Scheppele is a professor of sociology at Princeton University and a fellow at the University of Pennsylvania law school. She has lived in...

20.11.2024 3

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Francis Wilkinson

Women Won’t Let Trump Turn the US Into Iran

The US presidential election appears on track to produce more than 160 million votes. It’s a social, regional, cultural, ideological cacophony...

05.11.2024 2

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Francis Wilkinson

Trump Is Fueled by America’s Moral Cowardice

If Donald Trump has had a unique insight into American society, it’s almost certainly his recognition that moral cowardice is a contagion easily...

31.10.2024 2

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Francis Wilkinson

Harris’ Secret Weapon Is a Security Guard in Philly

Former President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen reprised their buddy routine in Philadelphia on Monday. Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey brought...

30.10.2024 4

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Francis Wilkinson

Can Liz Cheney Break Through to Republican Voters?

Democracy’s prodigal daughters appeared together Wednesday night on a stage in politically potent Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. In a charming...

11.10.2024 10

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Francis Wilkinson

Only Thomas Jefferson Can Solve Oklahoma’s Bad Bible Plan

Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters desperately wants the Bible — well, a bible — in state classrooms. As the Oklahoman...

08.10.2024 3

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Francis Wilkinson

Mass Deportation Isn’t Just Cruel, It’s Expensive

The American Immigration Council, a pro-immigration think tank, issued a report last week estimating the costs — financial costs only — of...

06.10.2024 2

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Francis Wilkinson

The Vance-Walz Debate Is Hardly ‘High-Stakes’

Is the upcoming debate between Ohio Senator JD Vance and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz a “high-stakes” affair, as I have repeatedly seen it...

01.10.2024 2

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Francis Wilkinson

Why Backlash to Trump Could Spark the 'Fourth Founding'

It has been a long night of terror for American pluralism and democracy. The Republican Party since 2016 has burrowed ever deeper into...

29.09.2024 3

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Francis Wilkinson

Ohio Supreme Court Allows Voters to Be Deceived

“Orwell himself would have trouble topping the efforts of the Ohio Ballot Board.” So reads the first sentence of an amicus brief filed by election...

20.09.2024 1

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Francis Wilkinson

Springfield Shouldn't Be a MAGA War Zone

“We cannot let the bad guys win,” Ohio Governor Mike DeWine said Monday. DeWine announced that he was sending 36 state police officers to patrol...

18.09.2024 2

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Francis Wilkinson

Trump Has Paved the Way for Future Demagogues

A large national survey released last week by PRRI, a nonpartisan, nonprofit polling organization, applied some sharp detail to the rise of...

17.09.2024 20

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Francis Wilkinson

Heritage Foundation's Pro-Trump Voter Fraud Video Is Nonsense

Like any demagogue, Donald Trump employs different lies for different needs. But dishonesty is the core of his existence. The Republican Party has...

11.09.2024 3

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Francis Wilkinson

Mass Shootings Are a Result of the GOP’s Moral Collapse

In theory, school shootings are tragic. Indeed, after Wednesday’s mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia — four murdered, nine injured —...

06.09.2024 10

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Francis Wilkinson

Trump Could Destroy the Anti-Abortion Movement

It’s doubtful that any contemporary political faction has been betrayed by its host party more often, or more publicly, than the anti-abortion...

04.09.2024 3

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Francis Wilkinson

Blame Trump’s Arlington Disgrace on the Army’s Naivete

For millions of Americans who recognize Donald Trump for the human and political grotesque that he is, it has been a long wait for a “decency”...

30.08.2024 3

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Francis Wilkinson

Can Harris Run on Love and Joy?Ask Michelle Obama

Can a political party run on love? Something like that is going on at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week. There has been much...

22.08.2024 10

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Francis Wilkinson

Anti-Abortion Democrats Feel Homeless

Democrats for Life of America met in Chicago Monday on the far, far periphery of the Democratic National Convention. In a small, windowless WeWork...

20.08.2024 2

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Francis Wilkinson

Tim Walz’s Masculinity Is Terrifying to Republicans

Since Tuesday, when Vice President Kamala Harris introduced Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate, Republicans have scaled back their...

09.08.2024 80

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Francis Wilkinson

Just How Much Did Barr Help Fuel Trump’s Election Lies?

A Department of Justice inspector general report released last week provided more evidence that former Attorney General William Barr was an eager...

07.08.2024 2

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Francis Wilkinson

Here’s What Harris Has to Do to Win Pennsylvania

Democrats have been on a roll in Pennsylvania, where Vice President Kamala Harris will appear Tuesday at a Philadelphia rally with her new vice...

05.08.2024 10

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Francis Wilkinson

Trump’s Anti-Vax Agenda Will Kill Americans

Of all the dangers that Donald Trump both threatens and embodies, from seedy criminality to sprawling authoritarianism, perhaps no threat is more...

01.08.2024 2

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Francis Wilkinson

Biden’s Graceful Exit Shows How a Healthy Party Should Work

President Joe Biden delivered his after-action report to the nation tonight. His conclusion: Mission accomplished. In an Oval Office address that...

25.07.2024 2

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Francis Wilkinson

Democrats Clear the Runway for Kamala Harris

Barring an unexpected turn of events in a season of unexpected turns of events, Vice President Kamala Harris will be the next Democratic nominee...

22.07.2024 10

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Francis Wilkinson