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Tell the truth about Biden’s economy

American workers’ wages have been rising faster than prices for more than a year now. Their nation’s economy, meanwhile, is the envy of the...

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Don’t sneer at white rural voters — or delude yourself about their politics

White rural Americans are a “racist, xenophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-gay” authoritarian fifth column that poses an existential threat to our...

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Did smartphones “destroy” a generation? The debate, explained.

The kids are not all right — and the device you are probably reading this on is to blame. So argues the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. In his...

12.04.2024 40

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Trump’s “moderation” on abortion is a lie

Donald Trump has an abortion problem. The presumptive GOP nominee boasts an advantage over President Joe Biden on most of today’s most salient...

09.04.2024 30

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Why Biden’s fundraising dominance could save his campaign

Joe Biden is swimming in cash, but short on voters’ support. The president has narrowed Donald Trump’s polling advantage in recent weeks but...

29.03.2024 3

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The House GOP just gave Biden’s campaign a huge gift

Donald Trump would be on track to win a historic landslide in November — if so many US voters didn’t find him personally repugnant. Roughly 53...

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Trump just opened the door to Social Security cuts. Take him seriously.

During his 2016 campaign, Donald Trump called for a ban on all Muslim immigration to the United States, the targeted assassination of terrorists’...

12.03.2024 6

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Biden’s very populist State of the Union address

The state of Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is weak. The president entered Thursday night’s State of the Union address with a 56 percent...

08.03.2024 10

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Republicans just passed up the chance to win a historic landslide

Donald Trump and Joe Biden are among the most unpopular politicians in their respective parties. And yet, both routed their competition in Super...

06.03.2024 40

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Trumpists don’t need to fear a multiracial America

Since Barack Obama’s reelection in 2012, many conservatives have grown increasingly afraid of the republic they claim to love. That year,...

05.03.2024 20

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Biden is weak — and unstoppable

23.02.2024 2

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Why you probably shouldn’t blow up a pipeline

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How NIMBYs are helping to turn the public against immigrants

The United States needs more immigrants. But at the moment, it does not especially want them. The country’s fertility rate has fallen far below the...

18.02.2024 10

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A booming economy might not save the Biden campaign

The US economy has long displayed many signs of objective strength. Wages have been rising faster than prices for nearly a year. Unemployment has been...

25.01.2024 8

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The GOP is moderating — and coming unhinged

Last week, House Republicans once again struggled to meet the most basic obligation of a governing party as roughly half its members effectively voted...

20.01.2024 10

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The 2024 Iowa caucuses

Voters in Iowa will head to the caucus locations on Monday, January 15, for the first contest of the Republican presidential primary, kicking off the...

15.01.2024 6

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How Trump went from disgraced insurrectionist to GOP frontrunner

For a brief moment in January 2021, it was possible to imagine that Donald Trump’s days at the apex of American politics were over. After all, the...

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Are $18 Big Macs the price of falling inequality?

Over the holidays, extremely online progressives debated the most important theoretical question facing the American left today: Is grousing about the...

09.01.2024 10

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Are America’s Cities Overpoliced?

As the American public has grown more aware of our nation’s endemic police violence over the past decade, some on the left have called for slashing...

29.12.2023 10

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Masha Gessen On Israel, Gaza, and Holocaust Analogies

The past three months have witnessed the bloodiest slaughter of Jews since World War II and the largest mass killing of Palestinian civilians since...

23.12.2023 7

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The Legal Merits of the Colorado Supreme Court Decision Don’t Matter

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Donald Trump is not eligible to appear on the state’s ballot. The logic of the decision is simple:...

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Why Biden’s Poll Numbers Will Get Better

Joe Biden’s poll numbers are abysmal. More than 55 percent of Americans disapprove of his job performance, according to FiveThirtyEight’s polling...

20.12.2023 10

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The New Global Climate Deal Is Mostly Hot Air

The world’s leaders formally committed Wednesday to “transitioning away from fossil fuels.” In the 28 years since the United Nations began...

14.12.2023 7

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How Bad Is Antisemitism in America, Really?

As Israel’s devastating bombardment of Gaza grinds on, debates over antisemitism in America have grown louder. In recent days, Congress has taken...

11.12.2023 4

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No, Democrats Are Not Driving America’s Culture Wars

Blue America is an increasingly affluent nation. In every presidential election from 1948 to 2012, white voters in the top 5 percent of America’s...

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Is Widespread Economic Discontent Good For the Left?

The American economy is growing at a historically rapid clip. Unemployment is near record lows, while job satisfaction is at an all-time high. Real...

06.12.2023 2

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The Price of Hamas’s Destruction Is Too High

After a weeklong truce, Israel is once again bombing Gaza. The proximate cause of this resumption of violence was an alleged cease-fire violation by...

04.12.2023 10

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You Don’t Want 2020 Prices Back

The American economy is growing at a 5.2 percent rate. Unemployment is near record lows, while job satisfaction is at an all-time high. And wages have...

30.11.2023 5

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In Bibi’s Israel, Musk’s Brand of Antisemitism Is Kosher

Earlier this month, someone posted an antisemitic diatribe on Elon Musk’s social-media platform. The X user in question argued that Jewish...

28.11.2023 5

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Trump Has a Plan for Massively Increasing Inflation

Donald Trump is on pace to win back the White House next year on the strength of his anti-inflation message. Which is a little odd, since the...

24.11.2023 10

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OpenAI Was Never Going to Save Us From the Robot Apocalypse

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Sam Harris’s Fairy-Tale Account of the Israel-Hamas Conflict

Sam Harris is among America’s most prominent critics of fundamentalist thinking. The “new atheist” podcaster, meditation guru, and erstwhile...

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3 Reasons Biden’s Strong Economy Is Unpopular

The American economy is the envy of the Western world. Our nation’s economy grew at a nearly 5 percent annualized rate last quarter. The...

12.11.2023 2

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The Two-State Solution Is Still Our Only (Distant) Hope

Israel’s campaign in Gaza has already claimed the lives of an estimated 10,000 Palestinians. Hamas is still holding more than 200 souls hostage,...

09.11.2023 2

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Do Democrats Need to Get Less ‘Globalist?’

Two decades ago, John Judis and Ruy Teixeira predicted that the Democratic Party was on the cusp of securing political dominance. In The Emerging...

08.11.2023 2

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Is That Antisemitic?

Debates over Israel’s policies have always been plagued by antisemitism and specious allegations of the same. This is especially the case in the...

06.11.2023 2

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The Suppression of Israel’s Critics Bolsters the Case for Free Speech

Israel’s campaign against Hamas has already killed thousands of Palestinian civilians and dozens of relief workers. Its siege of the Gaza Strip has...

27.10.2023 3

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The Most Incoherent Conservative Take on Israel Yet

Earlier this month, Hamas militants butchered 1,400 Israeli Jews, thereby proving conservatives are right about everything. Or so argues Konstantin...

25.10.2023 2

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The Undisputed Facts In Gaza Are Enough

An explosive fell on the parking lot of a hospital in Gaza City Tuesday, killing a large number of Palestinians. Hamas attributed the blast to the...

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Why Israel Can’t Bomb Its Way to Peace

Less than two weeks ago, Hamas militants entered Israel and murdered 1,400 people, the vast majority of whom were civilians. They killed entire...

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The U.S. Is Giving Israel Permission for War Crimes

The legality of a war effort under international law hinges on two primary criteria. The first concerns a military campaign’s ends: States are...

13.10.2023 6

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No, America’s Declining Power Didn’t Cause Hamas’s Attacks

America’s global power is long past its zenith. China’s sprint into industrial modernity has eroded our nation’s economic preeminence, while...

13.10.2023 10

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A Left That Refuses to Condemn Mass Murder Is Doomed

This weekend in Israel, a far-right Islamist group perpetrated the largest mass killing of Jews since the Holocaust, murdering entire families,...

11.10.2023 10

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A Wall Won’t Keep Biden’s Border Problem at Bay

During the 2020 campaign, Joe Biden vowed that “not another foot” of the wall on America’s southern border would be built if he became...

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Don’t Celebrate When People You Disagree With Get Murdered

Early Monday morning, 32-year-old Ryan Carson was stabbed to death at a bus stop in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. He and his...

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Are Rising Bond Yields and Deficits a National Crisis?

During Barack Obama’s first term, a bipartisan consensus held that America faced a looming debt crisis. As the Great Recession eroded tax revenues,...

04.10.2023 3

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Scott, Haley, and the Radicalization of the ‘Moderate’ Republican

Tim Scott and Nikki Haley don’t seem like they’re one electoral defeat from hawking snake-oil supplements on a podcast monitored by the Southern...

29.09.2023 10

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Who Won (and Lost) the Second Republican Debate

As Joe Biden’s police state locks up conservatives for the crime of fearing God (and/or mounting one teensy insurrection) while drag queen...

28.09.2023 3

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Biden’s UAW Rally Exposes the Bankruptcy of Trump’s Populism

Joe Biden became the first president to ever walk a picket line on Tuesday as he rallied striking autoworkers in Michigan. Joe Biden at UAW picket...

27.09.2023 10

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Trump Wants His Enemies to Fear For Their Lives

Last Friday, the Republican Party’s presidential front-runner suggested that America’s top general deserves to die. In a post on Truth Social,...

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