I’ve learned Trump will kill Netflix’s bid for Warner and help Paramount win, giving him control of Fox, CBS, CNN, and TikTok. But as Colbert showed, we can fight back.
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Reporting and analysis on American politics: campaigns, elections, Congress, the White House, and the fight to make our democracy work.
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Hannah Arendt Understood the Forces Behind Donald Trump
The late scholar of mass movements, charismatic leaders, and government violence foreshadowed the president’s rise and the MAGA movement in The Origins of Totalitarianism. Recent polling proves her prescience.
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The Worst President Ever
And why Trump’s ballroom will some day double as a community center for kids.
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Will Progressives Stop Leading With Their Chins?
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.”
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What Will It Take for Democrats to Take the Senate?
A state-by-state breakdown of the Senate primaries shows Democrats have largely, but not completely, averted a debilitating ideological civil war in the midterm elections.
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“Fortunately, the U.S. Federal System Is a Major Impediment to Authoritarianism”
An expert on mass atrocities and genocide, Alexander Laban Hinton explains what to fear in Trump’s term and how to manage the chaos ahead.
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Donald Trump Is Really Racist
The president not only traffics in racist rhetoric, but also racist policies, and we should not shy away from pointing out the harms.
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America’s Illiberal Internationalism
The Republican Party’s turn against liberal internationalism is not a passing Trump aberration but a reversion to long-standing illiberalism on the American right.
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How Worried Should Democrats Be About Trump Stealing the Next Election?
Be vigilant, be imaginative, but also remember that everything Trump is doing to impose restrictive voting measures is backfiring on Republicans, just like his previous efforts.
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Trump’s Authoritarian Envy: The Plight and Peril of a Lame Duck
Envious of Putin, Xi, and other authoritarians who have no clock ticking, the president is more dangerous than ever.
