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How Hur Misled the Country on Biden’s Memory

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...

13.03.2024 40

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The Supreme Court Once Again Reveals the Fraud of Originalism

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...

05.03.2024 100

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Wall Street Is Making Peace With the Idea of a Second Trump Presidency

American business elites would prefer a strong economy without a resurgent labor movement, which is exactly what Trump is offering. Wall Street is...

02.02.2024 50

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A Rainbow Coalition of Haters

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...

31.01.2024 10

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Greg Abbott’s Neo-Confederate Crusade

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...

29.01.2024 6

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Trump’s Unwitting Enablers

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...

19.01.2024 5

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Disqualifying Trump Is Not Anti-Democratic

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...

10.01.2024 3

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Who’s Afraid of Calling Donald Trump an Insurrectionist?

An anticoup provision is not much use with a loophole for self-coups. In the history of self-defeating euphemisms, Jonathan Chait’s characterization...

05.01.2024 40

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The Marriage Plot

There’s a reason that politics is reshaping relationships. Serious relationships are full of practical concerns. I’ve known loving couples who...

22.12.2023 30

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There Is No Originalist Case Against Disqualifying Trump

The disqualification of Donald Trump challenges the Supreme Court’s conservatives to follow through on their stated beliefs. The Colorado Supreme...

20.12.2023 10

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Texas Becomes an Abortion Dystopia

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...

18.12.2023 6

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The New Face of the ‘Great Replacement’

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...

13.12.2023 7

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A MAGA Judiciary

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...

05.12.2023 50

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Expelling George Santos Was a Mistake

Forcing the New York representative out of the House after a conviction would have been justified; pushing him out beforehand is not. George Santos,...

01.12.2023 5

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Netanyahu’s Odd Embrace of Elon Musk

The Israeli prime minister is playing a seedily transactional game. Less than a month after the billionaire Elon Musk enthusiastically endorsed the...

30.11.2023 3

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The Decision That Could End Voting Rights

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...

21.11.2023 5

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Don’t Equate Anti-Zionism With Anti-Semitism

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,...

03.11.2023 2

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The Care and Feeding of Supreme Court Justices

From lavish vacations to fancy dinners, conservative activists have constructed an elaborate infrastructure to reward ideological loyalty on the high...

03.10.2023 6

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Why the Press Can’t Tell a Campaign Rally From a Picket Line

Donald Trump is not, in fact, supporting striking autoworkers. There’s an expression reporters use, that you’ve “reported yourself out of a...

28.09.2023 5

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Alabama Strikes Out

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...

27.09.2023 3

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Trump Is the Reason Women Can’t Get Abortions

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 ...

20.09.2023 8

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The Allure of Racist Pseudoscience

How eugenics captured the young conservative movement The pseudoscience of eugenics is making a comeback on the American right. In August, the...

15.09.2023 6

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Alabama Republicans Think the Supreme Court Is Full of Partisan Hacks

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...

14.09.2023 9

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Schools Are Embracing Caricatured History

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...

13.09.2023 40

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