A Q&A on the unstated aims and unacknowledged risks of Trump’s air strikes.
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Brett Kavanaugh Hits the Street!
This summer, the Supreme Court issued an order in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, an “emergency docket” decision permitting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to continue detaining individuals in Los Angeles, based on their race or ethnicity, proficiency in Spanish, and suspicious presence near Home Depot, Beverly Hills lawns, and other hotbeds of criminal activity. […]
Posted inPolitics
Surrendering to MAGA Isn’t Just a Broadcast Media Problem
Capitulation is everywhere.
Posted inLaw and Justice
In NIH Funding Case, the Supreme Court Makes Up the Rules as It Goes Along
Chief Justice Roberts joined the liberals in a shadow docket ruling that was muddled even by the justices’ feckless standards.
Posted inPolitics
Stop Asking How Democrats Will Fight Trump. Start Asking Republicans
The president is supplanting long-standing Republican principles of limited government, free markets, low taxes, and federalism with his trademark incompetent authoritarianism.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Epstein and Trump: Why We’re Unlikely to See the Files
Judges will probably keep the Epstein files sealed, Bondi seems unlikely to release anything, and the Supreme Court’s version of blanket presidential immunity will thwart any criminal case against Trump.
Posted inMagazine
Modi Operandi
A chronicle of the rise of Indian nationalism offers lessons for defeating our own version.
Posted inFeatured
The “Gender Gap” Story So Far is Harris’s Resilience with Men
Plus, why Trump is avoiding mainstream media, why Democrats should give the Green Party nominee the silent treatment, and the Week 7 Gender Gap Tracker — all in the October 17, 2024 newsletter.
Posted inFeatured
Gender Gap Tracker Week 5: The Rust Belt-Sun Belt Divide
Plus, voices from Lebanon on the latest outbreak of violence, and the political import of the vice-presidential debate, all in the October 3, 2024 newsletter.
Posted inNewsletter
Don’t Expect the Jury to Save Us From Trump
Plus, the latest from inside the courtroom of Trump’s hush money trial and Putin’s hold on the GOP—all in the April 18, 2024, Washington Monthly Newsletter.
