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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 5

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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 6

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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...

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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 4

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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 who...

06.11.2024 10

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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 who...

06.11.2024 10

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The Case for Kamala Harris Over Trump Is Totally Obvious

04.11.2024 5

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The Case for Kamala Harris Over Donald Trump Is Totally Obvious

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, fellow...

01.11.2024 6

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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 themselves...

30.10.2024 5

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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 themselves...

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 8

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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 6

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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

29.10.2024 4

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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 Nazi...

28.10.2024 9

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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 Nazi...

28.10.2024 7

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

25.10.2024 6

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Trump Has Already Punished Bezos for the Washington Post

25.10.2024 3

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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 4

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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 9

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Is Calling Trump Fascist an Insult to Trump Voters?

23.10.2024 10

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The Insurrationalizers: The Wall Street Journal Plumps for Trump

21.10.2024 20

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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...

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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 3

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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 endorsed...

17.10.2024 10

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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 endorsed...

17.10.2024 3

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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 5

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

11.10.2024 5

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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 foreigners....

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The Choice Is Divided Government or Unrestrained Trumpism

10.10.2024 20

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The Election Choice Is Divided Government or Unrestrained Trumpism

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 50

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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 10

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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 10

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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 either...

07.10.2024 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 has...

04.10.2024 10

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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 has...

04.10.2024 8

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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 9

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Kamala Harris Is Right to Get Support From Bad 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 10

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J.D. Vance May be Unprincipled, But He is Smart and Slick

Tim Walz reportedly confessed to Kamala Harris during his vice-presidential interview that he is a bad debater, and his allies expressed their...

02.10.2024 20

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J.D. Vance May be Unprincipled, But He is Smart and Slick

Tim Walz reportedly confessed to Kamala Harris during his vice-presidential interview that he is a bad debater, and his allies expressed their...

02.10.2024 20

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Trump Wants to Lock Up Kamala Harris Now

Over the weekend, Donald Trump began branding Vice-President Kamala Harris a criminal. “She should be impeached and prosecuted for her actions,”...

30.09.2024 30

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Trump Wants to Lock Up Kamala Harris Now

Over the weekend, Donald Trump began branding Vice-President Kamala Harris a criminal. “She should be impeached and prosecuted for her actions,”...

30.09.2024 4

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

27.09.2024 6

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

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