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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.

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    Is DeSantis Just Not Dumb Enough for Republicans?The perils of a true-believing conservative intellectual in a Trumpy party.
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    Republicans to Clarence Thomas: Take All the Payments You WantConservatives don’t see any ethics problems.
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    Ron DeSantis’s Thuggish New Threats Against DisneyThe Florida governor is trying to out-authoritarian Trump.
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    Why Liberals Should Hope Ron DeSantis Beats Donald TrumpThe phrase the lesser evil very much applies here.
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    What Is Dianne Feinstein Still Doing Here?This is not fein.
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    Clarence Thomas and the Ethical Disaster of the Supreme CourtUndisclosed gifts from a billionaire won’t even embarrass the right.
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    Trump Isn’t Above the Law, But He Shouldn’t Be Below ItThis is like getting Al Capone for paying off his mistress.
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    The Terrifying Threat That No Labels Will Reelect TrumpWhy is this mysterious group building a political doomsday device?
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    The Strange Trials of Our First Criminal PresidentThe awesome task of restoring faith in a legal system Trump has spent his life discrediting.
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    The Republican Debt-Ceiling Hostage Scheme Is CollapsingStep one is to name a demand. The House can’t even do that!
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    How Trump Can Use Social Security and Medicare to Destroy DeSantisForget Ukraine. Retirement programs are the real killer.
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    Why Republicans Are Embracing Vouchers Even Though They Don’t WorkIt’s not about educational outcomes anymore.
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    Permitting Reform for a Debt-Ceiling Hike Would Be Win-WinRepublicans are floating a deal Democrats should jump on.
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    What Ron DeSantis Can’t FakeTrump’s legal problems reveal an organic connection to the base that his rival is trying but failing to match.
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    Why Do We Have Presidential Medals for Celebrities?The private sector creates plenty of awards for entertainers without the need for a public option.
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    Why Joe Biden’s Honeymoon With Progressives Is Coming to an EndExpect a lot more infighting.
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    Ron DeSantis Thrills Tucker Carlson by Taking Pro-Russian StanceThe Florida governor calls Putin’s invasion a “territorial dispute.”
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    Republicans Blame Silicon Valley Bank Failure on ‘Wokeness’Buying too many Treasury bonds is extremely woke, obviously.
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    The Republican Party May Not Be Fascist, But It’s Definitely Getting Fasci-erThe left-wing case for downplaying authoritarianism is not convincing.
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    Trump Blurts Out ‘Peace’ Plan to Hand Russia Chunks of UkraineSean Hannity tastefully edits this out of the interview.
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    CPAC Speaker Michael Knowles Urges Eradication of Trans Rights“There can be no middle way in dealing with transgenderism. It is all or nothing.”
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    DeSantis Promises Florida Will Control Disney ContentRight-wing board to clamp down on “woke ideology” in cartoons.
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    The Surprisingly Contrarian Case Against Lying About ScienceThe philosophical debate behind the lab-leak question.
  24. the national interest
    Ron DeSantis Goes Full Trump on UkraineThe American First Wing has won the fight for the soul of the Republican Party.
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    Fight the Anti-Trans Backlash With Accountability, Not SilenceThe anti–New York Times protesters have the wrong target and the wrong goal.
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    Tucker Carlson Tried to Get Fox News Reporter Fired for Fact-Checking TrumpInternal emails reveal the host’s motives for lying.
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    Columbia Journalism Review Had a Different Russiagate Story — and Spiked ItThe curious editorial decisions of a journalism watchdog.
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    Joe Biden Is a Mediocre LiberalBut he’s proved to be a successful president anyway.
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    Michael Lind, Case Study in the Perils of Discourse-PoisoningHow an intellectual talks himself into believing the GOP is the left-wing party.
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    The GOP Attack on Ilhan Omar Trivializes AntisemitismElevating Marjorie Taylor Greene exposes the hypocrisy.
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    It’s Republicans Who Won’t Negotiate Over the Budget DeficitThe other big lie in this hostage crisis is hiding in plain sight.
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    Why DeSantis Is on Track to Beat TrumpThe main Trump alternative has learned the lessons of 2016.
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    The Durham Probe Was Barr’s Witch HuntA shockingly unethical crusade to vindicate Trump.
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    Ron DeSantis’s Long War on Black Political PowerIt’s not just a “culture war” — it’s about political representation.
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    Debt Ceiling Extortion Is an Attack on DemocracyIf Republicans want to cut spending, they should win an election and do it themselves.
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    Florida: African American History Class Is ‘Inexplicably Contrary’ to State LawYou’d think the state would be able to explicate its reasons.
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    Biden’s Document Blunder Is Nothing Like Trump’s CrimeTrump is facing charges because he defied the law.
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    Why Post-Trump Republicans Are Pivoting to a Pre-Trump WorldWhat happened to the party’s great philosophical evolution?
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    Republicans’ Denial That They’re Defending Rich Tax Cheats Is Very FakeThat study “proving” Biden’s IRS funding won’t audit the wealthy does not exist.
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    Ron DeSantis Is Imposing Political Control on SchoolsA step by step blueprint to turn the state into a political weapon.
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    Imagine Negotiating a Debt-Ceiling Ransom With These ManiacsTime to start minting the coin.
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    ‘Reactionary Centrism,’ the Left’s Hot New Insult for LiberalsNew jargon just dropped.
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    Why House Republicans Keep Eating Their OwnA party that refuses to share power turns its rage inward.
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    Grifter Congressman George Santos Writes Hilarious Non-DenialA line-by-line examination of the nonresponse.
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    Ron DeSantis’s Anti-Vaccine Campaign Continues Trump’s War on the Rule of Law“Lock her up” becomes a permanent GOP tactic.
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    Helping Trans Kids Means Admitting What We Don’t KnowTrying to enforce a nonexistent scientific consensus is a dead end.
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    The Republicans’ Problem Isn’t ‘Candidate Quality,’ It’s Crazy PeopleBeing sane isn’t a messaging choice.
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    Red-Pilled Elon Musk Still Loves the Chinese Communist PartyThe Twitter owner may hate the left, but he does admire Leninism.
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    Kyrsten Sinema Is Playing ChickenDeclaring herself an independent is a way to force the Democratic Party into embracing her.
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    Kanye’s Willing Republican PartnersFirst they ignore the extremists. Then they quietly accept them.
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