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Guess Which Presidential Power Trump Likes the Most

In the right hands, the pardon power is too strong. In the wrong hands, it is disastrous.

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The White House Gold Rush Is On

They came bearing gifts. They left with what they wanted.

19.11.2025 100

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JD Vance Is Idling at the Edges of American Politics

Why doesn’t the vice president have more to say about Nick Fuentes?

15.11.2025 30

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Democrats Are Teaching Trump the Wrong Lesson

They need to fortify the American political system against future attempts to play dictator and lay out a project of genuine democratic renewal.

12.11.2025 9

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We Can’t Pretend to Know the Future of the Democratic Party

There is no one-size-fits-all template for winning elections.

08.11.2025 3

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Make No Mistake, Trump Is an Albatross

Just Ask Mikie Sherrill, Abigail Spanberger and Zohran Mamdani.

05.11.2025 10

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A Third Trump Term Is Not the Charm

The Constitution is not a word game.

02.11.2025 30

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Trump’s Path of Destruction Is Far-Reaching

From Venezuela to the East Wing of the White House.

25.10.2025 3

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There’s a Reason Trump Fears No Kings

Who’s the patriot now?

22.10.2025 5

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Republicans Know How Vulnerable Trump Is. The Attacks on No Kings Prove It.

What explains the Republican Party’s posture toward these protests?

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It’s Not Government They Don’t Like

Remember when Republicans loved states’ rights?

09.10.2025 100

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Who Is Donald Trump Responsible To?

Trump’s exclusionary view of the country strains the bonds of union.

05.10.2025 60

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Trump Has No Mandate to Destroy America

What a narrow result in a closely divided nation actually means for the country and its political parties.

01.10.2025 4

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This Is About So Much More Than Lisa Cook

Trump dreams of infinite presidential power.

24.09.2025 7

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The MAGA Movement Is Not a Debating Society

The Trump administration and its adherents want dominance and obedience.

20.09.2025 10

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Trump’s Economic Magic Trick Is Coming Undone

The president’s voters wanted to have it both ways. Reality said no.

17.09.2025 100

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Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.

We can condemn his assassination without mythologizing him.

13.09.2025 10

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They Don’t Want to Live in Lincoln’s America

Five words from the Declaration of Independence that national conservatives don’t like.

10.09.2025 10

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The Visual Language of Trump’s Authoritarianism

It’s an unreal spectacle.

31.08.2025 80

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All the Things Trump Thinks He Owns

The White House is not the president’s property. Neither is the Smithsonian. Nor Washington itself.

27.08.2025 6

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What Jesse Jackson and Zohran Mamdani Have in Common

We cannot let this dark moment consume us.

23.08.2025 5

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What Trump Is Really Up to in Washington

Even as the president is putting on a show, he’s also doing everything he can to reach his ultimate aim.

20.08.2025 20

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Why Trump Always Wants a Crisis

If the actual conditions of reality will not give him a state of exception, he’ll create one himself.

13.08.2025 10

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The Dred Scott Dissent Lincoln Loved

What if the infamous case had been decided correctly?

09.08.2025 10

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The Death of the Fourth American Republic

The Supreme Court may extinguish a law that more than any other made the promise of American democracy a reality.

06.08.2025 20

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JD Vance Claims One of Our Worst Traditions as His Own

The vice president envisions a world of tiered citizenship, where entry depends on heritage and status rests on obedience.

23.07.2025 100

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Mike Johnson Would Like You to Know About His Subservience

The speaker comes in with a strong entry in the sycophancy sweepstakes.

20.07.2025 100

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Now Can We Stop Talking About What a Maverick Trump Is?

The president is a normie Republican. Stop thinking otherwise.

02.07.2025 6

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We Know Exactly Where the Supreme Court’s Change of Heart Has Come From

The justices’ strange about-face has a source.

28.06.2025 20

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ICE Will See You Now

It won’t be easy to get rid of authoritarian habits of mind.

25.06.2025 10

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Right-Wing Violence Is Not a Fringe Issue

Let’s not confuse ourselves about where the primary responsibility lies.

21.06.2025 10

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Well, You Certainly Wouldn’t Call It Presidential Underreach

Maybe Trump and Miller don’t understand Americans as well as they think they do.

18.06.2025 100

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The Polls Are In. Trump Is Not Winning in Los Angeles.

The results are surprisingly clear on this.

14.06.2025 4

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Trump Wants to Be a Strongman, but He’s Actually a Weak Man

He is still dangerous, though.

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Now the President Is an Art Critic

The imperial presidency doesn’t even begin to describe what Trump is doing.

05.06.2025 100

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The MAGA Movement’s Empty Vision of the Future

We can contest the dark dreams of those in power.

22.05.2025 100

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Trump Doesn’t Want to Govern

He wants to rule.

27.04.2025 100

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One Way to Keep Trump’s Authoritarian Fantasy From Becoming Our Reality

Trump wants you to think resistance is futile. It is not.

24.04.2025 200

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Trump’s Lust for Power Cannot Be Satiated

The tariff saga is just the latest example of the president’s urge to dominate.

09.04.2025 20

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The Many Overlapping Scandals of the Pete Hegseth Group Chat

They may be even more serious than the one we’ve been focused on.

29.03.2025 10

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The Repercussions of Trump v. United States May Finally Be Hitting Justice Roberts

What is the chief justice getting at?

23.03.2025 100

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Trump Has Gone From Unconstitutional to Anti-Constitutional

Where all this goes is still up to us.

19.03.2025 200

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Where Are Trump and Musk Taking Us?

A typology of constitutional crises and constitutional rot.

12.03.2025 6

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Trump’s Revenge Tour Finds Its True Target

It is hard to describe the president’s first month and a half in office as something other than a retribution campaign against the American people.

05.03.2025 200

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We Need to Talk About the Lying

Trump promised and promised and promised.

02.03.2025 100

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If Trump Alone Can Fix It, What Is Elon Musk Doing?

The president is handing over the viability of his second term to a figure who is accountable to no one but himself.

27.02.2025 3

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Trump Is on the Wrong Side of History by Design

The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different...

13.02.2025 200

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There Is No Going Back

The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.

06.02.2025 850

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Don’t Fall for Trump’s D.E.I. Dodge

The president doesn’t care about merit.

02.02.2025 80

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If All This Sounds Delusional, That’s Because It Is

All the king’s men, back with a vengeance.

30.01.2025 300

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