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Appetite for Destruction
The second Trump administration is primarily animated by an anti-conservative impulse to demolish the institutions and customs of liberal-democratic…
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An American Gulag in the Making
Things are getting very bad, very fast
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At the Mercy of a Feral President
What it’s like to sell a house in an economy on the verge of a self-induced financial crisis
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Risks From a Wounded President
A new phase of Trump 2.0 has begun
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Why Did Donald Trump Shoot the Economy in the Thigh?
Because of an idea
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Scapegoats Beware
If Trump’s tariffs tank the economy (as economist increasingly think they will), the president will be looking for new people to blame
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March 2025

Are Protests a Viable Path to Blocking Trump?
I tend to doubt it, but I’m eager to be persuaded otherwise
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Trump Redefines the Right’s Policy Priorities
The first Trump administration sowed confusion, but the second is clarifying some of what the Republican Party will try to accomplish in its…
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The Universities Are the Enemy
So think our new hard-right revolutionary overlords
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What Is to Be Done?—2
My struggle to figure out the best way forward for our country continues
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Trump's Will to Power
Using the president’s chaotic tariff policies as a window into his true motivations
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Close Encounters with the Reactionary Right
I’ve been embroiled in the same arguments for thirty years, pointing to the same gaps in the thinking of those on the most radical fringes
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