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The gaping hole in the James Comey indictment

On Thursday night, the Justice Department indicted former FBI Director James Comey — accusing him of having lied to Congress during sworn...

26.09.2025 30

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The right wants Charlie Kirk’s death to be a “George Floyd moment”

It is impossible, I think, to grasp the terrible consequences of Charlie Kirk’s death without understanding who he was in life.  Liberals had a dim...

24.09.2025 4

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This is how Trump ends democracy

Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension — the direct result of an FCC threat to pull the licenses of networks that aired him — has shown us how...

20.09.2025 90

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Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel

Let’s be clear about what just happened: Jimmy Kimmel, a prominent late-night comedian, was just taken off the airwaves because the Trump...

18.09.2025 300

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The third Red Scare

Across the country, ordinary Americans are being fired for expressing their opinions about Charlie Kirk’s killing. Sometimes, those opinions are...

17.09.2025 40

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Let’s be honest about Charlie Kirk’s life — and death

In the days since the killing of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, the overwhelming response on the left has been shock and horror. No one of...

12.09.2025 40

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Our country is not prepared for this

Charlie Kirk, one of America’s leading conservative activists and a close friend of President Donald Trump’s son Don Jr., has been murdered. We do...

11.09.2025 100

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The Democrats’ shutdown debate is about something much bigger

Democrats are currently in the midst of whether to shut down the government as a response to President Donald Trump’s lawlessness — see this...

10.09.2025 6

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The right debates just how weird their authoritarianism should be

What happens when you put four of the Trump right’s leading intellectuals together in a room? You see what it looks like when a political movement...

03.09.2025 5

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Stephen Miller is undercutting Trump’s war on democracy

In the public imagination, Stephen Miller is the dark heart of the Trump administration — a pulsing mass of anti-immigrant hatred behind its most...

21.08.2025 6

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How conservatives help their young thinkers — and why liberals don’t

Last week, two young liberals asked for help finding a job in the ideas industry. And I didn’t have a great answer. It made sense that they were...

20.08.2025 10

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The real reason Trump’s DC takeover is scary

Depending on who you listen to, President Donald Trump’s decision to seize control over law enforcement in Washington, DC, is either an...

15.08.2025 10

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The “weirdos” shaping Trump’s second term

If you’ve been following American politics in the Trump era, there’s a decent chance you’ve heard of “the New Right.” It’s a loose...

14.08.2025 20

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What Israelis actually think about starvation in Gaza

How do Israelis feel about the increasingly horrifying crimes their government is committing in Gaza? This is one of the key questions going forward....

12.08.2025 2

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Trump’s tariffs have pissed off the right’s favorite “pervert”

Unfortunately, we have to talk about Bronze Age Pervert. The pseudonymous writer, widely identified as a Romanian-American political theorist named...

06.08.2025 10

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Israel’s Gaza aid cutoff was not only immoral. It was a strategic disaster.

Israel’s restrictions on humanitarian aid in Gaza are, first and foremost, a moral atrocity. Israeli policies since March, most notably the initial...

05.08.2025 10

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What a Black fascist can teach us about liberalism

It was 1935, and Lawrence Dennis was sure that fascism was coming to America. He couldn’t wait. Dennis, a diplomat turned public intellectual, had...

30.07.2025 4

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Why Trump betrayed his base on Jeffrey Epstein

Since last Monday, when the Justice Department announced it would not be releasing documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein and his 2019 death in a New...

16.07.2025 40

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Trump quietly claimed a power even King George wasn’t allowed to have

Just before the July Fourth holiday, we learned that President Donald Trump secretly claimed a power so dangerous that even King George was prohibited...

10.07.2025 20

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Liberalism is worth saving. Just ask its critics.

Prior to Kanye West, Lawrence Dennis was America’s most famous Black fascist. Born in 1893, Dennis had European features and light skin that allowed...

09.07.2025 20

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Canada: More American than the United States?

I’ve always found something charming about Canada Day, the July 1 national celebration, landing just three days before America’s Independence Day....

02.07.2025 30

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Three ways Trump’s attack on Iran could spin out of control

When Vice President JD Vance appeared on Meet the Press on Sunday morning, anchor Kristen Welker asked him a simple question: Is the United States now...

23.06.2025 30

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Trump doesn’t have a foreign policy

This story was adapted from the On the Right newsletter. New editions drop every Wednesday. Sign up here. For years, there has been an increasingly...

18.06.2025 10

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Trump’s military parade is a warning

Donald Trump’s military parade in Washington this weekend — a show of force in the capital that just happens to take place on the president’s...

14.06.2025 6

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The Israel-Iran war hinges on three big things

Last night, Israel went to war with Iran — launching a bombing raid targeting Iran’s senior military leadership and top nuclear scientists. The...

14.06.2025 20

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The LA protests reveal what actually unites the Trump right

When President Donald Trump and Elon Musk had their dramatic falling-out last week, it appeared the right was on the brink of civil war — with...

11.06.2025 30

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The fascinating backstory behind a bizarre State Department Substack post

Last week, the State Department published a strikingly radical screed on its official Substack. Titled “The Need for Civilizational Allies in...

04.06.2025 10

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Why the left gets the far right wrong

As right-wing populism has surged globally in the past 10 years, the socialist left has advanced a distinctive explanation for its emergence and how...

28.05.2025 10

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Two terrible truths about the antisemitic murders in DC

On Wednesday evening, the American Jewish Committee held a reception at DC’s Capital Jewish Museum. The gathering, aimed at Jewish foreign policy...

23.05.2025 5

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The forgotten book that foretold Trump’s power grab

In May 2015, prominent right-wing intellectual Charles Murray published a book calling on the superrich to fund an American rebellion against their...

21.05.2025 30

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The anti-woke right won in 2024. Now they’re turning on each other.

It’s been a rough week in the world of the online intellectual right, which is currently in the midst of two separate yet related blowups — both...

14.05.2025 20

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Americans have tuned out Gaza at the worst possible moment

Israel’s war in Gaza, which has long been a moral atrocity, is on the brink of becoming unimaginably worse. Earlier this month, Israel’s security...

12.05.2025 10

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The elite intellectual outcasts shaping Trump’s authoritarianism

Conservatives frequently accuse liberals of being out of touch with Americans. It’s an accusation that stings partly because there’s truth behind...

07.05.2025 4

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Trump is losing his war on democracy

In the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term, his administration has proven exceptionally good at breaking things. The Department of...

30.04.2025 30

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How Trump lost Canada

LONDON, Canada — Canada’s Liberals just pulled off one of the greatest upsets in modern democratic history: going from a predicted wipeout in...

29.04.2025 40

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Canary Mission, the pro-Israel group taking credit for student deportation, explained

About nine years ago, a new organization called Canary Mission released a YouTube video describing their mission: maintaining a blacklist of...

24.04.2025 10

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Trump’s new authoritarian role model

President Donald Trump’s press conference with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele was, at heart, an authoritarian political performance. This was...

15.04.2025 3

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Some elite Trump supporters are having regrets. We asked them why.

President Donald Trump’s tariffs haven’t only demolished trillions in wealth and raised the chance of a global recession. They’ve also led some...

09.04.2025 10

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What this disastrous week taught us about the Trump presidency

Donald Trump’s tariffs were at once predictable and shocking. Predictable, in the sense that Trump had been crystal-clear about wanting...

04.04.2025 4

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The real reason Trump is destroying the economy

The Trump administration’s tariffs are, by every reasonable account, an economic catastrophe in the making. So why are they happening? One...

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Where the right’s defense of free speech ends

In God and Man at Yale, the 1951 book that made William F. Buckley famous, American conservatism’s founding father argues that academic freedom is...

02.04.2025 7

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A clarifying moment for democracy

At around 5:15 pm on Tuesday, a man in a black hoodie stopped Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk on the street in Somerville,...

28.03.2025 60

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The deep divide lurking in Trump officials’ leaked group chat

The biggest story in America is, and should remain, the Trump administration’s accidental inclusion of Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg on...

26.03.2025 40

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There’s a pattern in Trump’s power grabs

You’ve surely heard “First They Came,” German pastor Martin Niemöller’s famous poem about the road to Nazi Germany. It’s one of those texts...

24.03.2025 30

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The Trump right’s pro-Israel antisemitism

Over and over again, the Trump administration has claimed to be fighting antisemitism while wielding power against its domestic enemies. Yet, at the...

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Canada is so furious at the US right now

The US and Canada are meant to be the best of friends, but they’re in the midst of a pretty ugly fight.  It began with President Donald Trump’s...

14.03.2025 10

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The right’s new embrace of an old idea about race

Earlier this week, we learned that a senior State Department official called Secretary of State Marco Rubio stupid. The insult was delivered using...

12.03.2025 8

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The obscure manifesto that explains the Trump-Musk power grab

Russell Vought is the brain behind Donald Trump’s executive order blitz. The now-director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) spent months...

19.02.2025 30

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How to stop Trump’s power grab

At this point, there is little doubt that President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are engaged in a fundamentally unlawful effort to rewrite the American...

13.02.2025 40

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An eerie prophecy of Trump’s second term — from 1998

Marko Elez, a staffer at Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Oversight, operated an anonymous X account that spewed out-and-out race...

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