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Jonathan Chait
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Staff writer for the Atlantic. Messages with links are intended as prompts to read the linked story, not self-contained arguments substituting for the linked story.
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Hegseth’s Self-Incriminating Response to a Democratic Ad
For the president and his minions, loyalty is more important than legality.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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The Conservative Movement’s Intellectual Collapse
Trump is both a product and a cause of the collapse of intellectual standards on the right.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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A Wild 48 Hours in the Epstein Saga
The president baits, deflects, and chews the scenery in a drama that just won’t die.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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FIGHT HARDER
timmiller.bsky.social Tim Miller @timmiller.bsky.social · 15d
Imagine if Dems in the Senate hadn't caved. The House wouldn't be in session rn, the discharge petition wouldn't be signed, people wouldn't have SNAP, govt workers would be RIF'd & the GOP would have some decent talking points. But also online rage addicts would be happier! YMMV!
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Wait, Are the Epstein Files Real Now?
The White House’s responses get curioser and curioser.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Senate Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake
The shutdown was hurting Trump. Ending it helps him.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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In fact, the article explains that Mamdani's win shows a great deal about winning elections in deep blue districts.
mbkplus.bsky.social Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 20d
There ought to be a moratorium on thinkpieces premised on "here's what the guy who just won a watershed election doesn't understand about winning elections". Or maybe just on Chait pieces more generally.
November 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Democrats, Mamdani Doesn’t Point the Way Forward
He won by a modest margin in a deeply blue city not because of his radical commitments, but despite them.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Is Marjorie Taylor Greene Playing Three-Dimensional Chess?
The “Jewish space lasers” lady may be positioning herself to lead the MAGA movement.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Trump Is Right: Ditch the Filibuster
The tactic is a deformed anachronism. Its demise would benefit the whole country, and Democrats especially.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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The Ballroom Blitz Should Be a Bigger Scandal
It is appalling for a president to accept private donations to fund a pet project. Just ask the Clintons.  
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November 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Israel’s Critics Have Canceled Themselves
Withholding submissions from The New York Times in order to promote your views is some odd logic.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Trump Does Not Want this Obamacare Fight
But his generalized animosity for the opposing party has overwhelmed his instinct for political survival.
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October 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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What Progressives Keep Getting Wrong
Graham Platner is the perfect embodiment of the left’s strategy for returning to power. This is a problem.
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October 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Vance’s Telling Defense of a Racist Group Chat
How a trove of bigoted and violent texts among young Republicans indicates the future of the party.
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October 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Why Is Trump Making Excuses for Hamas?
The president seems undisturbed by the terrorist group’s murderous campaign against dissidents. In fact, he seems to admire it.
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October 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Don’t Blame the Democrats for Trump’s Revenge Tour
Defending Trump’s lawfare as just deserts misremembers what actually happened.
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October 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Trump’s Nobel Thirst Is Actually Great for the World
The president’s ego inspires plenty of bad choices, but his desire for a Peace Prize is proving useful.
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October 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Bari Weiss Still Thinks It's 2020
She co-founded The Free Press as a bastion of liberalism in an illiberal time. Her arrival at CBS is paved with excuses for illiberal friends.
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October 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Stephen Miller Lays Out the Plan in Public
The White House aide equates opposition to Trump’s agenda with terrorism—and pushes for the use of state power to suppress it.
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October 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Democrats Still Have No Idea What Went Wrong
The party’s progressives seem to think the problem is not with their platform but with voters.
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October 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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The Emptiness of Attacking Critics for Their Hypocrisy
It’s hard to defend crackdowns on free speech. It’s easier to simply claim everyone’s doing it.
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September 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Stephen Miller Wants America Even More Divided
In the White House aide’s view, violent rhetoric is allowed only when he and Trump are the ones spewing it.
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September 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Trump Just Undercut His Defenders
Conservatives rushed to exonerate the president from the charge of censorship. He swiftly contradicted them.
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September 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Trump Opposes Political Violence Only When It Comes From the Left
Charlie Kirk’s assassination was a tragedy. It is also an opportunity for conservatives who hope to silence their political rivals.
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September 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM