It’s great that Democrats are blasting “The Epstein Class” but their House candidate in New Jersey needs to avoid “Israeli genocide” and “Abolish ICE.”
Jonathan Alter
Jonathan Alter, a contributing editor of the Washington Monthly, is a former senior editor and columnist at Newsweek, a filmmaker, journalist, political analyst, and the publisher of the Substack Old Goats with Jonathan Alter where this piece also appears. He is the author of His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life. His latest book is American Reckoning: Inside Trump's Trial--And My Own.
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He’s a long shot for 2028, but even as an “also-ran,” he’ll shape the debate and the future.
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Once they are identified, police will arrest them. And qualified immunity won’t work.
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Greenland and the Benjamins
There’s a method behind Trump’s madness and it’s colored green.
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ICE won’t melt, but traumatic events of this kind create their own force fields that bring change.
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Tatiana Schlossberg (1990-2025)
My personal admiration for her Proustian writing and her Job-like mother.
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The Trump Boomerang Effect: Bari Weiss, Meet Ozymandias
While Trump muscles the media and renames the Kennedy Center, history will get the last laugh. Just ask the good people of Appleton, Wisconsin.
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Trump’s Sickening Sociopathic Shots at Rob Reiner
All Republicans must be asked if they stand behind their master on this one.
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Trump’s Secret Pardon-for-Profit Racket
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