Michael Podhorzer is the former political director of the AFL-CIO and founder of the Analyst Institute, the Research Collaborative and the Defend Democracy Project. Read his Substack and follow him on Twitter at @mike_podhorzer
The threat posed by Trump and the MAGA movement, like that posed by the Confederate States of America, is neither “conservative” nor “extremist” but criminally anti-democratic.
Subsidies for Scholarship Granting Organizations, the latest rage on the right, are being sold as a brilliant innovation to help underprivileged kids. Don’t fall for it.
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Israel isn’t going to disappear and calling for its liquidation spurs antisemitism. There’s a better way.
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The president wants to pick CNN’s owners and decide what CBS News airs. Tax-deductible donations to Washington Monthly keep independent media alive.
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The president has wide latitude to grant clemency, but Trump has broken all norms and sought even more authority to help his allies.
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All Republicans must be asked if they stand behind their master on this one.
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The conservative justices have been accomplices to the president’s blatant attempts to bypass the Constitution’s limits on his power. Here’s how.
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Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and a bit of the backstory of the shameful pardon of the former Honduran president.
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