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Jonathan Chait

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A Farewell to New York

I spent the first 16 years of my career at The New Republic, an ideologically heterodox but center-left magazine centered on politics and based in...

11.11.2024 3

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Trump Can Prosecute Anybody He Wants, Transition Leader Says

Mark Paoletta, who is helping plan the Trump administration’s Justice Department staffing during the transition, repeated his belief that Trump has...

08.11.2024 4

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Trump’s ‘Unprecedented and Powerful Mandate’ Is a Lie

Upon learning that he had won a clear election victory, Donald Trump responded, as is his custom, with a transparent lie. “America has given us an...

08.11.2024 70

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Trump’s ‘Unprecedented and Powerful Mandate’ Is a Lie

Upon learning that he had won a clear election victory, Donald Trump responded, as is his custom, with a transparent lie. “America has given us an...

07.11.2024 3

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Americans Didn’t Embrace Trump, They Rejected Biden-Harris

That half this country could willingly restore Donald Trump to a position of power is a sickening thought. For most liberals, moderates, or people...

06.11.2024 4

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Americans Didn’t Embrace Trump, They Rejected the Biden-Harris Administration

That half this country could willingly restore Donald Trump to a position of power is a sickening thought. For most liberals, moderates, or people...

06.11.2024 10

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The Case for Kamala Harris Over Trump Is Totally Obvious

Donald Trump’s most mystifying quality is that his collection of political liabilities are so vast that they defy all attempts to summarize them....

04.11.2024 3

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The Case for Kamala Harris Over Donald Trump Is Totally Obvious

Donald Trump’s most mystifying quality is that his collection of political liabilities are so vast that they defy all attempts to summarize them....

04.11.2024 10

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The Insurrationalizers: Niall Ferguson Changes His Mind

Niall Ferguson ranks among the most respectable of conservative intellectuals, at least based on his mainstream credentials (Harvard professor,...

01.11.2024 3

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Trump Transition Chair Blurts Out Plan to End All Vaccines

Earlier this week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told supporters on a Zoom call that Donald Trump pledged to give him control over the the federal...

31.10.2024 20

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Biden ‘Garbage’ Controversy Is Pure Republican Hypocrisy

Yesterday, President Joe Biden made a comment to which Republicans are taking elaborate offense. What he said is a string of words lending...

30.10.2024 10

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Biden ‘Garbage’ Controversy Is Pure Republican Hypocrisy

Yesterday, President Joe Biden made a comment to which Republicans are taking elaborate offense. What he said is a string of words lending...

30.10.2024 4

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Democrats Used to Run on Education. What Happened?

There’s a scene in The War Room, the 1993 documentary about the Clinton campaign, that is replayed in the new CNN documentary about James Carville....

30.10.2024 4

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Democrats Used to Run on Education. What Happened?

There’s a scene in The War Room, the 1993 documentary about the Clinton campaign, that is replayed in the new CNN documentary about James Carville....

30.10.2024 3

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Why Rich NIMBYs Love Trump

Andy Kessler, the investor and Wall Street Journal columnist, is a perfect embodiment of what is surely the Trumpiest constituency in America: guys...

30.10.2024 10

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Why Rich NIMBYs Love Trump

Andy Kessler, the investor and Wall Street Journal columnist, is a perfect embodiment of what is surely the Trumpiest constituency in America: guys...

29.10.2024 2

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Conservatives Have Set the Bar at ‘Not As Bad As Hitler’

Conservatives spent the weekend complaining that Democrats were comparing Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden to one held by American...

28.10.2024 5

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