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It’s the Fall That’s Gonna Kill You
The second Trump administration turns American governance into an act of collective self-harm
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Governing in the Dark
On the foolish irresponsibility of the Trump administration’s hostility to scientific thinking and research
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What Is to Be Done?
Critical comments from one of my subscribers inspire some self-reflection about the state of the country and the work I do at “Notes from the…
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Ten Theses for Liberals on Sex and Gender
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The Singularly Appalling Republican Party
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MAGA's Downward Moral Spiral
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The Other Rally at the Garden
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No Silver Linings
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Never-Trump Smackdown
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Endings and Beginnings
Is the second Trump administration a passing storm we just need to ride out? Or might it be the first chapter in a new story whose meaning we can't yet…
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Three Observations from the Midst of the Maelstrom
The anti-system realignment, a superpower commits suicide, and Trump’s risible Gaza gambit
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The Trump Executive Orders as “Radical Constitutionalism”
Much more than “test cases” may be at stake in Trump's aggressive claims of presidential authority
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Deliberately Degrading American Government
What we learn by thinking about Trump’s tariffs and Elon Musk’s acts of administrative sabotage as one
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Life as a Vocation
A wonderful new essay raises deep questions about how and why we’ve ended up in our present political predicament
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The End of the Cordon Sanitaire
Without a broad and stable center, everyone has no choice but to work with the extremes
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The Limits of Legitimate Presidential Defiance
Reflections on Week 1 in a harder-right America
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