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The Supreme Court Thinks You Are Stupid

The Supreme Court Thinks You Are Stupid

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. A key component of...

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Jay Willis

How the Supreme Court Kicked Off America’s Sports Betting Addiction Crisis

How the Supreme Court Kicked Off America’s Sports Betting Addiction Crisis

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. In 2017, Americans...

18.08.2026 10

Talking Points Memo

Madiba K. Dennie

Anthropic’s Fight With the Pentagon Shows How AI Could Threaten a Crucial Safeguard of Democracy

Anthropic’s Fight With the Pentagon Shows How AI Could Threaten a Crucial Safeguard of Democracy

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. In February, the United...

17.08.2026 7

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David Silver

Evangelicals Think They’ve Found Their Post-Trump Era Leader in … Mike Huckabee?

Evangelicals Think They’ve Found Their Post-Trump Era Leader in … Mike Huckabee?

In Church, Merch, and State, Sarah Posner writes about the intersection of religion and politics in the United States. This column is part...

17.08.2026 10

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Sarah Posner

Is Paramount’s Merger-Hungry David Ellison Making it Up As He Goes?

Is Paramount’s Merger-Hungry David Ellison Making it Up As He Goes?

This article is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. In “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” when Indiana Jones is asked how he...

14.08.2026 10

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Brian Lowry

The Justice Department Is a Glorified Pro-Trump Law Firm Now

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. Earlier this week,...

13.08.2026 10

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Jay Willis

How the 2026 Midterms Are Recycling 2020 Conspiracy Theories

In Rough Edges, Mike Rothschild writes about fringe groups, conspiracy theories and how the Internet broke our brains. This column is part of TPM...

07.08.2026 10

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Mike Rothschild

We Actually Know Exactly How We Can Address Trump’s Corruption Spree

This book excerpt is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. For most of human history, trying to identify an oligarchy has been...

06.08.2026 10

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Casey Michel

The Push to Elect Kansas Supreme Court Justices Is a Cynical Anti-Abortion Power Grab

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. On Tuesday, voters...

04.08.2026 10

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Jay Willis

How Netanyahu’s MAGA Evangelical Backers Are Grappling With Backlash Against Him

In Church, Merch, and State, Sarah Posner writes about the intersection of religion and politics in the United States. This column is part...

03.08.2026 20

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Sarah Posner

Kash Patel’s Ambitious Defamation Lawsuit Foiled By Basic Civil Procedure Doctrine

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. Kash Patel, the...

30.07.2026 10

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Jay Willis

The Real Logic Behind the GOP’s New Push for Judicial Elections

This article is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. On August 4, Kansas voters will decide whether to replace the state’s...

30.07.2026 20

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Steve Kennedy

The Right’s New Country Club: Inside the Bizarre World of Luxury Gun Clubs

This book excerpt is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. The story of modern gun culture is partly about how reactionary forces...

22.07.2026 20

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Mike McIntire

The Supreme Court Is Helping ICE Agents Get Away With Murder

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. On July 7, Lorenzo...

21.07.2026 20

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Madiba K. Dennie

The Trump Admin’s Global Campaign Against ‘Radical Left Terrorism’ Is Built on a National Security Memo Without Congressional Approval

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. A little-noticed...

20.07.2026 20

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Melinda Haas

The Outrageous House Republican Move to Enact Trump’s Vote Suppression Proposals By the Backdoor of Budget Reconciliation

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. House Republicans will bring forward this week a surprising and...

20.07.2026 10

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Charles Tiefer

How Lindsey Graham Built the Trump Supreme Court

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. I will say this...

14.07.2026 30

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Jay Willis

How Butler Assassination Attempt Conspiracy Theories Became the New Dallas 1963

In Rough Edges, Mike Rothschild writes about fringe groups, conspiracy theories and how the Internet broke our brains. This column is part of TPM...

10.07.2026 20

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Mike Rothschild

When You Hear ‘Remigration,’ Know That It Means Ethnic Cleansing

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Back in 2018, a 19-year-old neo-Nazi going by the name...

07.07.2026 20

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Christopher Mathias

God’s Country: America250 History Comic Book Has Very Strong Opinions About the Constitution

The congressionally licensed series asserts that God created the United States and offers takes on Roe v. Wade, birthright citizenship, and even...

03.07.2026 20

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Colin Woodard

There Was a White House Playbook for Selling Unpopular Foreign Policy Ideas. Trump Has Thrown It Away.

This book excerpt is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. After successfully completing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action...

03.07.2026 10

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Chad Levinson

The Four Fallacies at the Heart of SCOTUS’ Decision on Trans Athletes

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. The Supreme Court on Tuesday authorized further discrimination against...

01.07.2026 20

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George Theoharis

Samuel Alito Is the Supreme Court’s Leading Voter Fraud Conspiracy Theorist

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis.  It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. Months before...

29.06.2026 20

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Jay Willis

Taxing Billionaires Is the Easiest Way Democrats Could Gain Voter Trust

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Ask voters in the country’s most competitive congressional districts...

23.06.2026 20

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Tiffany Muller

The Trump DOJ Is Trying to Do Elon Musk a Big Favor

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis.  It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. Since August of...

19.06.2026 30

Talking Points Memo

Madiba K. Dennie

60 Years Ago, a Civil Rights Icon Was Shot. A Flood of Now-Familiar Conspiracy Theories Followed.

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. On June 6, 1966, on...

12.06.2026 30

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Aram Goudsouzian

The White House Is Attacking Progressive Creators Like Me. Here’s Why It Won’t Work.

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. The White House recently published a new “Media Offenders” page on...

12.06.2026 30

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Brian tyler cohen

Why Are Any Democrats Supporting a Bill That Was Championed by the Crypto Industry?

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. In May, the crypto industry won big as the Senate Banking Committee...

09.06.2026 20

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Fletcher calcagno

What the Pentagon’s Snub of Mormons Was Really All About

In Church, Merch, and State, Sarah Posner writes about the intersection of religion and politics in the United States. This column is part of TPM...

09.06.2026 30

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Allegra Kirkland

The Delaney Hall Strike Is Exposing a Massive Thirteenth Amendment Crisis

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis.  It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. For the past...

08.06.2026 30

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Madiba K. Dennie

How the Right Captured State Power as a Weapon in Its Anti-Government Crusade

Republicans made state power a core part of conservative ideology. Democrats can take it back.

08.06.2026 30

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Daniel Squadron

From Sonic Booms to Mystery Drones: How Science-Based Panics Take Hold

In Rough Edges, Mike Rothschild writes about fringe groups, conspiracy theories and how the Internet broke our brains. This column is part of TPM...

06.06.2026 40

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Mike Rothschild

Greg Bovino’s Retirement Plan? Go Full Fascist

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Greg Bovino was welcomed like a celebrity at one of the world’s...

04.06.2026 40

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Christopher Mathias

The Proposed Trump NDA Is Following John Roberts’s Bad Example

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis.  It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. Last week,...

03.06.2026 30

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Madiba K. Dennie

Republicans Sound Like They’re Getting Nervous About Supreme Court Expansion

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis.  It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. On Thursday,...

25.05.2026 30

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Madiba K. Dennie

Hantavirus, Ebola and Our Dark New Era of Virus Conspiracy Theories

In Rough Edges, Mike Rothschild writes about fringe groups, conspiracy theories and how the Internet broke our brains. This column is part of TPM...

23.05.2026 40

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Mike Rothschild

Democrats Shouldn’t Let Russell Vought Fly Under the Radar

This post is a part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis.  President Donald Trump’s second administration is full of highly...

19.05.2026 30

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Kenny Stancil

There’s an Easy Way to Tell That Trump’s Judicial Nominees Don’t Belong On the Bench

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis.  It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. President Donald...

12.05.2026 40

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Madiba K. Dennie

There’s an Obvious Reason Why The Republican Justices Sound So Nervous

Persuading the public that a Republican-controlled Court issuing Republican-friendly decisions is not a Republican body has never been more difficult.

08.05.2026 40

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Madiba K. Dennie

We Aren’t Paying Enough Attention to What the SCOTUS VRA Decision Means for State Legislatures

The Supreme Court's ruling impacts much more than control of Congress.

06.05.2026 40

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Gaby Goldstein

The Gift Barack Obama Gave to Donald Trump

This excerpt is running in TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis.  The optimism and euphoria that was so widespread when the Berlin...

05.05.2026 30

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Ian shapiro

How Inequality Caused America’s Affordability Crisis

Americans’ correct impression that it takes more and more income just to get by long predates recent bursts of inflation.

04.05.2026 50

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Robert h. frank

What’s Really Underpinning the ‘Missing Scientists’ Conspiracy Theory

In Rough Edges, Mike Rothschild writes about fringe groups, conspiracy theories and how the Internet broke our brains. This column is part of TPM...

27.04.2026 100

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Mike Rothschild

Why Italy’s Giorgia Meloni Broke With Donald Trump

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published by The Conversation under a Creative...

24.04.2026 40

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Margherita de candia

Senate Republicans Have a Plan to Suspend Congressional Oversight of ICE for Trump’s Whole Term

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Rather disingenuously, Senate Majority Leader John Thune has...

23.04.2026 40

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Charles Tiefer

What a 2006 Anti-Immigrant Panic Tells Us About Texas in 2026

In Frisco, Texas, far-right activists are seizing upon the growing community of immigrant families from India as an example of the racist “Great...

23.04.2026 40

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A.k. sandoval-strausz

John Roberts Is Always a Republican First

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis.  It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. Over the...

21.04.2026 50

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Jay Willis

Neomi Rao Understands What It Means to Be a Trump Judge

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis.  It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. For a full year,...

17.04.2026 40

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Madiba K. Dennie

The Feuding Little Christian Fiefdoms of the Trump Administration

In Church, Merch, and State, Sarah Posner writes about the intersection of religion and politics in the United States. This column is part of TPM...

17.04.2026 40

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Sarah posner

The Trump White House Is Very Upset About States That Won’t Do Its Dirty Work

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis.  It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. Last week, the...

15.04.2026 40

Talking Points Memo

Madiba K. Dennie