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Jonathan Chait

Jonathan Chait has been a political columnist at New York since 2011 and writes the newsletter &c. He is the author of Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail.

  1. the national interest
    Clarence Thomas Just Happens to Have Many Generous Billionaire Close FriendsHe can’t help it if he’s lucky.
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    Prosecuting Trump Will Only Make Republicans Crazier, Warns Law ProfessorHow much crazier can they get, though?
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    College Sports Is a Failed Experiment in Anarcho-capitalismThe NCAA has all the money and none of the sense.
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    Ron DeSantis Renounces Trump’s Craziest Election LieAt least he admits the Venezuelans didn’t steal the election.
  5. the national interest
    Are Democrats Tricking Republicans Into Nominating Trump?Conservative elites driven to madness by DeSantis’s collapse.
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    Pence Makes It Clear Why It’s Necessary to Prosecute TrumpThe GOP punishes the man who was “too honest,” not the coup leader.
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    The Democrats Can’t Wave Away Their Hunter Biden ProblemHow the party can clean up the Supreme Court and address the president’s son’s ethics scandals.
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    Ron DeSantis’s Nazi Outreach Is a Strategy, Not an AccidentStaffer Nate Hochman was fired for creating a post with white-supremacist imagery.
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    Conservatives Have a New Master Theory of American Politics“The long march through the institutions” is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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    Democrats Learned From Their COVID Errors. Republicans Didn’t.Democrats on school closing, Republicans on vaccines: a case study.
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    DeSantis Finally Takes Real Questions, But He Won’t Answer ThemIt’s a start.
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    There’s a Simple Reason Voters Aren’t Crediting Bidenomics (Yet)It takes time for perception to match reality.
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    Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Conspiracy Theories Finally Get Around to the JewsCOVID-19 was “ethnically targeted”? Uh, sure.
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    Anti-Anti-Trumpers Say the Character Issue Between Biden and Trump Is a TieEvery Trump flaw must have an equal and opposite flaw in his rival.
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    GOP’s Bombshell Anti-Biden Witness Has a Wee Credibility ProblemRepublicans have a habit of imputing all of Donald Trump’s crimes to Trump’s opponents, but this is really on the nose.
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    In Defense of Independent Opinion JournalismThe ‘hack gap’ between right and left has been closing.
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    Non-white Moderates Are Real Democrats — Not GOP PawnsSuggesting otherwise is simply denial.
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    The Last Republican PoliticianCan John Roberts stave off a Democratic assault on the Supreme Court?
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    After Affirmative Action, We Can Still Fix the Education PipelineShrinking the education gap is the best answer.
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    Community Input Is Not Always What Democracy Looks LikeClimate activists are entitled to protest but not entitled to win.
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    John Durham Admits He Knows Little About Russia ScandalNo wonder he thought the FBI was doing a witch hunt.
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    Samuel Alito’s Ethics Defense Is Even Less Persuasive Than His Legal RulingsSupreme Court justice exempts himself from ethics requirements.
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    Trump Defense: I Committed Obstruction to Save Golf PantsThis is a very, very bad reason to go to jail.
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    Joe Biden May Face Two Spoiler Candidates in 2024Cornel West is running and No Labels is getting ready to.
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    Ron DeSantis Wants More Honoring Confederates, Less Funding for Black HistoryRon DeSantis Wants More Honoring Confederates, Less Funding for Black History
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    Why Republicans Want a Nakedly Partisan Justice DepartmentNeutral law enforcement is a losing game for them.
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    Republicans Now Say Bathrooms Are a Great Place to Store Military Secrets“There are 33 bathrooms at Mar-a-Lago! So don’t act like it’s in some random bathroom.”
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    Why Was Trump So Intent on Keeping ‘My Boxes’?Conservatives assume he would never do anything dangerous or bad with military secrets.
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    Why No Amount of Evidence Will Make Republicans Admit Trump’s GuiltA paranoid party and its mobster president.
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    Mike Pence Says Trump Can Commit All the Crimes He WishesEnforcing the law would be “divisive.”
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    National Study Shows Charters Outperform Traditional SchoolsEducation-reform skeptics’ favorite fact is officially false.
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    The GOP’s Authoritarian AccelerationInternal resistance to its anti-democratic turn has all but vanished.
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    Centrist Fanatics Go Wild Over Debt-Ceiling DealThey just like bipartisan deals, regardless of content.
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    The Debt-Ceiling Deal Buys Biden Time at a Terrible Long-Term CostWhat happens next time Republicans take a hostage?
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    Ron DeSantis, A Strongman Who Isn’t DumbFor all his errors, DeSantis’s plan to out-Trump Trump can still work.
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    Hostage-Takers Not to Blame for Killing Hostage, Reports New York TimesThe Platonic ideal of “both sides” reporting.
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    White Supremacy Is a Dangerous Threat Because Republicans Use ItHorrifying developments in the week since Biden’s warning have vindicated it.
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    John Durham Shows ‘Lock Her Up’ Politics Were Never About Real CrimesRepublicans want to send people to jail after Durham finds no crimes.
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    The Clarence Thomas Ethics Scandal for DummiesLet’s go back to middle-school civics.
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    The Media Is Normalizing Debt-Ceiling ExtortionNo, this is not how Congress always does it. This is different, and dangerous.
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    How Donald Trump Suckered Ron DeSantis on AbortionTrump took their demands seriously, not literally.
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    The Republican Takeover of American EducationConvinced that teachers are brainwashing children to be left-wing ideologues, conservatives are quickly grabbing control of the American classroom.
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    Kevin McCarthy Wants to Negotiate the Deficit? Fine, Let’s Talk Taxes.Exposing the extortion scheme with one simple word.
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    Where Is the Republican Soul-searching for Getting COVID Wrong?Fauci is at least answering some hard questions.
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    Rage-filled Samuel Alito Baffled His Fairness is Being QuestionedYou must respect my authority, Justice insists.
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    The Left-Wing Case for Tucker Carlson Is WrongDenouncing capitalists and markets does not make you progressive.
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    House Republican Debt Bill Would Throw 600,000 Off Health InsuranceThe institutional sociopathy of the GOP in one stat.
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    Tucker Carlson, Fake Populist and Genuine RacistA TV character who exploited the worst impulses of the American right.
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    Kevin McCarthy’s Main Debt-Ceiling Argument Is a LieA clean hike can’t pass? Of course it can.
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    Mitt Romney Thinks the Labor Secretary Shouldn’t Represent LaborA revealing window into the differential status of labor and management.
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