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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 2

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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...

08.11.2024 3

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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...

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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...

07.11.2024 2

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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 3

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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 5

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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 2

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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 2

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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 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 2

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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 3

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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...

30.10.2024 3

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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...

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 3

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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 3

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Trump Has Already Punished Jeff Bezos Over the Washington Post’s Independence

When Donald Trump first ran for president, he began to threaten that Amazon and Jeff Bezos would pay the price. “If I become president — oh, do...

25.10.2024 2

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Trump Has Already Punished Bezos for the Washington Post

When Donald Trump first ran for president, he began to threaten that Amazon and Jeff Bezos would pay the price. “If I become president — oh, do...

25.10.2024 2

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Conservatives Still Love Their Hitler-Loving Candidate

Nearly half of the Cabinet-level officials who served in Donald Trump’s first term have refused to endorse his reelection. Many have spoken out...

24.10.2024 2

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Is Calling Trump Fascist an Insult to Trump Voters?

Bret Stephens, in a New York Times column analyzing possible reasons Kamala Harris would lose, blames her supporters for the “politics of...

24.10.2024 3

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Is Calling Trump Fascist an Insult to Trump Voters?

Bret Stephens, in a New York Times column analyzing possible reasons Kamala Harris would lose, blames her supporters for the “politics of...

23.10.2024 10

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Trump Says Harris Running Against Him Is a Criminal Act

One of the most important and consistent facets of Donald Trump’s thinking is that the law, as most people understand it, is conceptually...

18.10.2024 60

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Trump Says Harris Running Against Him Is a Criminal Act

One of the most important and consistent facets of Donald Trump’s thinking is that the law, as most people understand it, is conceptually...

17.10.2024 2

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How Progressive Overreach Gave Trump His Favorite Attack Ad

If you have watched a sporting event in the last month, you’ve probably been bombarded with Trump ads lambasting Kamala Harris for having...

17.10.2024 7

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How Progressive Overreach Gave Trump His Favorite Attack Ad

If you have watched a sporting event in the last month, you’ve probably been bombarded with Trump ads lambasting Kamala Harris for having...

17.10.2024 2

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Trump Blurts Put Corrupt Plan to ‘Straighten Out Our Press’

If Donald Trump believes any person stands between himself and power, he will brand them a criminal and threaten them with prison. He has said this...

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Trump Blurts Out Corrupt Plan to ‘Straighten Out Our Press’ by Extorting Owners

If Donald Trump believes any person stands between himself and power, he will brand them a criminal and threaten them with prison. He has said this...

15.10.2024 2

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J.D. Vance Says Trump Was Right to Try to Steal the Election, Because of Twitter

The reason J.D. Vance has a chance to become vice-president of the United States is that, unlike Mike Pence, Donald Trump’s running mate on his...

11.10.2024 2

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Trump Delivers Historically Illiterate Lecture on Tariffs

Donald Trump has grown increasingly fixated on tariffs, which he seems to think, contrary to the consensus among economists, are borne by...

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The Choice Is Divided Government or Unrestrained Trumpism

When we look back at the campaign between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, whatever the outcome may be, it will become retrospectively clear that...

10.10.2024 2

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The Election Choice Is Divided Government or Unrestrained Trumpism

When we look back at the campaign between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, whatever the outcome may be, it will become retrospectively clear that...

10.10.2024 30

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Donald Trump Sure Seems to Collude With Putin a Lot

Robert Mueller’s inability to prove a criminal conspiracy between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia is one of the most significantly...

09.10.2024 30

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The Race Is Close Because Harris Is Running a Great Campaign

Heading into the first presidential debate in June, Democrats were facing a near-hopeless situation. President Joe Biden had been utterly toxic for...

08.10.2024 8

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The Race Is Close Because Harris Is Running a Brilliant Campaign

Heading into the first presidential debate in June, Democrats were facing a near-hopeless situation. President Joe Biden had been utterly toxic for...

08.10.2024 8

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In Defense of the Biden-Harris Plan to Reform, Not Pack, the Courts

Donald Trump’s undisguised authoritarianism creates a quandary for Republicans who believe in the rule of law. Most of them have decided they...

07.10.2024 3

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Why A Second Trump Term Might Go Full Social Darwinist

One of the paradoxes of Donald Trump’s campaign is that his best issue by far is the economy, yet nobody knows what he would do about it. Trump...

04.10.2024 4

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Why A Second Trump Term Might Go Full Social Darwinist

One of the paradoxes of Donald Trump’s campaign is that his best issue by far is the economy, yet nobody knows what he would do about it. Trump...

04.10.2024 5

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Kamala Harris Is Right to Get Endorsements From Right-Wing Republicans

Kamala Harris is holding a campaign event in Wisconsin with Liz Cheney to emphasize the moral imperative of those Republicans who still value...

03.10.2024 2

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Trump Says Putin Wants War (That He Started) to End

Donald Trump held a photo opportunity with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an effort to bolster his case that he is a respected leader...

27.09.2024 2

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Donald Trump’s Pitch to Women Is Creepy Abuser Logic

Donald Trump has always been wildly sexist. Generally, his sexism takes the form of reducing women to their looks, either praising their sex appeal...

24.09.2024 30

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Trump’s Health Plan: Charge More for Preexisting Conditions

Donald Trump infamously said at the presidential debate he had the “concept of a plan” to replace Obamacare. As is often the case when Trump...

17.09.2024 1

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Donald Trump Is a Threat to Democracy, and Saying So Is Not Incitement

Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. That was true before an assassination attempt was foiled at his golf course Sunday, and it remains true...

16.09.2024 50

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Kamala Harris Baited Donald Trump Into a Debate Meltdown

Kamala Harris faced a tricky task in the first presidential debate. Her training and skills are as a prosecutor, but her main task was not...

11.09.2024 1

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Kamala Harris Gave the Best Acceptance Speech I’ve Ever Seen

Kamala Harris rose to the occasion with a perfect nominating acceptance speech. I’ve never seen a nominee target their political objectives so...

23.08.2024 50

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