Conor Friedersdorf
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters A Republican Congressman’s Case for Impeaching Trump
Representative Justin Amash is the first member of the House GOP to call for the constitutional remedy for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters America Needs a Permanent Anti-war Movement
Public apathy toward relatively small-scale military actions makes war with Iran more likely.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Five Reasons Pundits Underestimated Joe Biden
The people who chatter online didn’t see his popularity coming.
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Steven Hirsch / Reuters The Damage That Harvard Has Done
The institution removed Ronald Sullivan as faculty dean after students criticized his decision to help mount Harvey Weinstein’s legal defense.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Thanks to Trump, War Is in the Air
Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, and a weak Congress are setting the stage for unlawful conflicts.
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Mark Makela / Reuters The Secret That Was Hiding in Trump’s Taxes
Media coverage depicted the president as a brilliant deal maker, but he claimed more than a billion dollars in losses over the course of a decade.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Right Way to Think About ‘Electability’
Set aside intuition and look at how Joe Biden matches up against Donald Trump on specific issues.
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Reuters Camille Paglia Can’t Say That
Art students are trying to get the social critic fired from a job she has held for three decades.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Sean Hannity Plays T-ball With President Trump
The Fox News host squandered an interview with the most powerful man in America.
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Chip East / Reuters Can a Witness Wear a Veil on the Stand?
A tough case forces a choice between the right to confront one’s accuser in a public trial and the free exercise of religion.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump Owns the War in Yemen Now
His veto of a congressional effort to end U.S. involvement violates the public will and the national interest.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Bernie Sanders Pierces the Fox News Bubble
A town hall on the network was a risk for the self-described “democratic socialist.” It paid off.
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Thomas Peter / Reuters An Internet for Kids
Instead of regulating the internet to protect young people, give them a youth-net of their own.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters Ilhan Omar Falls Victim to the Outrage Exhibitionists
In attacking the representative over a small, unintentional slight, Donald Trump and the populist right are displaying bad faith.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters A President Falsely Charging ‘Treason’ Is What the Founders Feared
Trump’s accusations violate his oath of office.
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Mike Stone / Reuters A Predictable Coda to the Waco Biker Gunfight
Local authorities behaved badly from the start. Anyone could see that.
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Rahav Segev / Reuters Austin’s Weirdly Aggressive Traffic Stops
Police there are more likely to use injury-causing force against drivers they pull over than in any other large Texas jurisdiction.
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Kamil Krzaczynski / Reuters The Strange, Unsatisfying End to the Jussie Smollett Case
A bigot and a hoaxer cause the same harm to everyone save the primary victim.
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Win McNamee / Reuters Democracy Requires a Public Mueller Report
Let Americans judge its findings for themselves.
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Maxim Shemetov / Reuters Who Is Influencing America This Time?
Conor Friedersdorf asks about the foreign actors targeting America’s public discourse.
