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Adam SerwerThe Atlantic |
The saga has been something of a self-inflicted wound for Democrats. First impressions stick. After a big story hits, the initial conclusions can turn...
The justices did not want to throw Trump off the ballot, and so they didn’t. It was always unlikely that the Supreme Court, with its right-wing...
American business elites would prefer a strong economy without a resurgent labor movement, which is exactly what Trump is offering. Wall Street is...
Some Republicans appear hopeful that the party’s right-wing gender politics will lure Black and Latino men away from the Democrats. Is sexism the...
The Texas governor is taking a stand to protect his state’s right to let children die in the Rio Grande, and four justices of the Supreme Court are...
They sound very different from the former president’s toadies, who lavish him with absurd praises. But they are part of the same project. The...
But ignoring the Constitution to please his supporters would be a complete breakdown of the rule of law. In the short weeks since the Colorado Supreme...
An anticoup provision is not much use with a loophole for self-coups. In the history of self-defeating euphemisms, Jonathan Chait’s characterization...
There’s a reason that politics is reshaping relationships. Serious relationships are full of practical concerns. I’ve known loving couples who...
The disqualification of Donald Trump challenges the Supreme Court’s conservatives to follow through on their stated beliefs. The Colorado Supreme...
The conservative movement will pay any price to extend restrictions. Kate Cox is a mother of two young children, and in that respect, she’s like the...
Vivek Ramaswamy is both the newest proponent of the racist idea and the best example of why it’s wrong. Midway through last week’s Republican...
In a second term, Donald Trump would appoint more judges who don’t care about the law. Thanks to Donald Trump’s presidential term, the...
Forcing the New York representative out of the House after a conviction would have been justified; pushing him out beforehand is not. George Santos,...
The Israeli prime minister is playing a seedily transactional game. Less than a month after the billionaire Elon Musk enthusiastically endorsed the...
A federal court’s opinion yesterday could render the Voting Rights Act meaningless, if the Supreme Court upholds it. The right to vote free of...
It is not anti-Semitic to want equal rights for all in Jerusalem, in Tel Aviv, in Gaza, in Ramallah. On October 7, the Islamist militant group Hamas,...
From lavish vacations to fancy dinners, conservative activists have constructed an elaborate infrastructure to reward ideological loyalty on the high...
Donald Trump is not, in fact, supporting striking autoworkers. There’s an expression reporters use, that you’ve “reported yourself out of a...
Not even the Roberts Court is willing to brook open defiance to its rulings. Few things are more difficult than getting the Roberts Court to side...
The former president wants you to believe he is a moderate on abortion. He isn’t. Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion striking down Roe v. Wade ...
How eugenics captured the young conservative movement The pseudoscience of eugenics is making a comeback on the American right. In August, the...
It’s hard to understand a series of recent moves in any other way. To hear the Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices tell it, they are not...
Some states are adopting a cartoon version of the past into their curriculums. Four years ago, The New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project, a series...