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11 mins ago the national interest the national interest Why a Second Trump Term Will Make the Middle Class Pay By Jonathan Chait No more low-interest-rate free ride.
18 Apr 2024 14:07 GMT
At a private donor confab in February, Donald Trump emphasized to a room full of wealthy loyalists that he would focus on cutting their taxes in a second term. The Biden campaign has used this promise against him, which is likely the key context to a new …
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Conservatives Suddenly Realize Tucker Carlson Is a Lying Russia Dupe By Jonathan Chait
17 Apr 2024 11:12 GMT
Tucker Carlson has changed. He has changed before, obviously: Originally a right-leaning but skeptical reporter, he evolved into a grotesquely racist, relentlessly dishonest authoritarian demagogue. In this incarnation, he attracted new followers while …
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5:00 a.m. the national interest the national interest What Is Donald Trump’s Stance on Seizing Russian Assets? By Jonathan Chait Trump loves taking other countries’ money, but maybe not all countries.
14 Apr 2024 12:09 GMT
Donald Trump has almost single-handedly held up additional American aid to Ukraine, allowing Russia to regain momentum in its offensive. (It’s almost as if denying Kyiv weapons does not bring about peace!)
One workaround gaining increasing traction in …
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Marjorie Taylor Greene would like to remind us that she is not serious
18 Apr 2024 14:59 GMT
… by New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait as Greene theorizing about a …
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4:34 p.m. the national interest the national interest Kari Lake Pretends Not to Know Abortion Law She Very Specifically Endorsed By Jonathan Chait Oh, you mean that ARS 13-3603?
10 Apr 2024 20:55 GMT
It was awkward enough for Donald Trump when his Monday announcement that abortion would henceforth be settled for all time by the states was followed the next day by Arizona — a swing state, no less — becoming subject to a draconian 1864 law outlawing …
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9:53 a.m. the national interest the national interest The Media Did Not Make Up Trump’s Russia Scandal By Jonathan Chait Liberal bias mostly exists outside politics coverage.
10 Apr 2024 14:39 GMT
NPR reporter Uri Berliner wrote an essay for The Free Press arguing that the network has lost chunks of its audience by growing too dogmatically progressive. Some of the evidence supports his claim. Unfortunately, he undermines his case by leading with an …
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5 mins ago the national interest the national interest The Left-Wing Authoritarians Shutting Down the Democratic Party By Jonathan Chait Liberals would justifiably freak out if the right was doing this to Biden.
09 Apr 2024 11:12 GMT
Imagine a world in which Congressman Jamie Raskin attempts to deliver a speech on “Democracy, Autocracy, and the Threat to Reason in the 21st Century” and is unable to deliver his remarks because Trump supporters drown him out, and authorities justify the …
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6 mins ago the national interest the national interest There’s No Reason to Think Trump’s Lead Is Caused By Skewed Polling By Jonathan Chait Denial leads to wishful thinking.
05 Apr 2024 12:38 GMT
The prospect that Donald Trump will be restored to power by the great and good American people, or even the less great and good Electoral College, is disturbing enough that it has spawned a wave of denial. How could people want go through that again? A …
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22 mins ago the national interest the national interest Trump Indifferent to Palestinian Death, But Moved by Images of Building Damage By Jonathan Chait Another deranged interview.
04 Apr 2024 16:34 GMT
Donald Trump is almost totally immune to human suffering. But he is surprisingly affected by images of buildings collapsing. In an interview with Republican apparatchik Hugh Hewitt, Trump responds to questions about Israel by complaining, “They’re …
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10:46 a.m. the national interest the national interest Republican Russia Hawks in Denial Over Trump’s Hatred for NATO, Ukraine By Jonathan Chait Trump just wants to strengthen NATO, you see.
03 Apr 2024 15:21 GMT
One of the many threats posed by a second Trump term is the terrifyingly high risk that he would undercut NATO, or even pull out of the alliance altogether, and allow Russia to menace Europe. Some Republican Russia hawks have addressed this risk by starkly …