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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 9

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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 4

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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 6

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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 5

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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 old...

11.10.2024 20

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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 10

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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 100

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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 5

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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 authoritarian...

29.09.2024 10

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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...

20.09.2024 4

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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 10

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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 40

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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 had...

11.09.2024 10

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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 20

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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 10

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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 4

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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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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 10

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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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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 9

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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 20

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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 4

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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 8

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When Harris Calls Trump a Predator, Voters Will Listen

Kamala Harris visited her campaign headquarters on Monday and delivered a key message. Before becoming a US senator and then vice president, Harris...

23.07.2024 4

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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 for...

22.07.2024 10

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Francis Wilkinson

Republicans Have Broken Free of Barack Obama

Barack Obama looms large, but less. Since 2009, we have been engaged in a cosmic battle over whether the 21st century will belong to Obama’s...

17.07.2024 4

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Francis Wilkinson

Republicans Can’t Stop Lying About Voter Fraud

It’s difficult for Americans who grew up on sunny images of Ronald Reagan to grasp the depth of the contemporary Republican Party’s antipathy...

17.07.2024 9

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Francis Wilkinson

Trump Shooter's Motive Is Irrelevant. It's About Guns.

We have entered the motive stage. What was the shooter thinking? Was he a radical driven by ideology? A mentally unhinged loner longing to impress a...

15.07.2024 9

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Francis Wilkinson

The Supreme Court Has Stacked the Deck for MAGA

It’s wrong to view the Supreme Court’s ruling in the aptly titled Trump v. United States, its Constitution-torching invitation to authoritarian...

10.07.2024 3

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Francis Wilkinson

Biden Is Failing as Persuader-in-Chief

“We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be,” Heritage Foundation President...

03.07.2024 5

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Francis Wilkinson

Joe Biden Can’t Do It Alone

What has changed since the presidential debate last Thursday? A lot and very little. We are mostly where we were two years ago. An old president, past...

02.07.2024 10

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Jaamal Bowman Lost Because He’s a Bad Politician

A Bronx Democrat, a member of the much-hyped progressive “Squad” in Congress, faced a primary challenge from a monied White male moderate this...

27.06.2024 8

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New Jersey Is Cornering the Market on Corruption

New Jersey is delivering a kind of rolling TED talk on the cornucopia of political corruption that the Soprano State has to offer. The hits just keep...

25.06.2024 10

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Francis Wilkinson

Supreme Court’s Bump Stock Ruling Reflects Its MAGA Agenda

Imagine a fictional Supreme Court, circa 1970, in which the court’s left-wing majority is sympathetic to the ways and means of violent leftist...

19.06.2024 8

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Francis Wilkinson

Mitch McConnell Misses on the Real Threat to Democracy

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and President Joe Biden made back-to-back defenses of democracy last week, but one of their rallying cries...

11.06.2024 7

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Francis Wilkinson

A Lot of Trumpers Aren't Actually MAGA. They Matter Most.

A new Pew Research Center poll on American cultural values portrays lots of predictable divisions between the two main camps of US politics — as...

06.06.2024 4

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Francis Wilkinson

GOP Continues to Wage War on Mail-In Votes in Pennsylvania

In Pennsylvania, one of the paramount states of our mortal combat electoral system, voting by mail is legal. It’s also safe and readily administered...

03.06.2024 10

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It isn’t a Crime If MAGA Does It

Three years after he resigned in disgrace, Richard Nixon justified his crimes in office by declaring in an interview with David Frost, “It’s not a...

21.05.2024 30

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Trump Could Be the End of the Road for Dreamers

US Senator Dick Durbin held a hearing in Washington last week while Stormy Daniels was testifying in Manhattan about her relations with Donald...

16.05.2024 60

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Will Abortion Drive Voters to the Polls in November? It’s Unclear

Whether abortion is a potent enough issue to deliver the 2024 election to President Joe Biden in November is a complicated question. New polling data...

02.05.2024 60

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Kristi Noem’s Cruelty Fits Right Into MAGA Gun Culture

It’s only right that South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem’s evolving canine scandal should focus on Cricket, the 14-month-old wirehair pointer that...

01.05.2024 30

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Want to Keep Trump From Dismantling Democracy? Compromise.

Earlier this month, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared on Stephen Colbert’s television talk show and delivered an eloquent plea for US...

24.04.2024 10

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Francis Wilkinson

Sarah Huckabee Sanders Gets Her Trump On

After Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders purchased a very high-priced lectern for her very poor state, the state legislature initiated an audit,...

17.04.2024 9

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Francis Wilkinson

Biden Is Closing a Sacred Portal Into American Gun Culture

In issuing a new rule to close the gun show loophole for firearm sales, the Biden administration isn’t just narrowing one of the easier paths by...

11.04.2024 5

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Francis Wilkinson

Can Biden Fix His Gaza Mistake by November? Maybe.

“I think what he’s doing is a mistake,” President Joe Biden said this week of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s mismanagement of the...

11.04.2024 10

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Trumpism Is Emptying Churches

Donald Trump, a 77-year-old Bible salesman from Palm Beach, Florida, has emerged as the nation’s most prominent Christian leader. Trump is running...

07.04.2024 20

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Are Black and Brown Voters Really Fleeing Biden? It’s Complicated.

Across a range of media this month you can read about President Joe Biden’s declining support among Black and Hispanic voters. A few data...

01.04.2024 20

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Republican Lawmakers Are Overriding Local Will

Last April, the Memphis City Council unanimously passed a law to curtail the number of driving infractions that would officially justify a police...

20.03.2024 10

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Francis Wilkinson

California Shows the US Is Too Polarized for Top-Two Primaries

Representative Adam Schiff got what he paid for. As expected, the California Democrat won first place in the state’s top-two primary for the US...

15.03.2024 10

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Arizona Republicans Want to Give Citizens License to Shoot Migrants

Arizona Republicans produced legislation last week that would legalize shooting and killing trespassers on private land. Essentially, they took an...

03.03.2024 20

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