Ideas
Arguments. Essays. Inquiries.
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Democrats Should Talk About Place-Based Policy
Staying versus moving is one of the eternal tensions of American life. Americans have frequently moved: Consider how the…
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Shawn Thew / Getty Devin Nunes Is Living in a Fantasyland
The representative’s claims about stories reporting on the Trump administration are part of a universe of untruth.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Gordon Sondland Is Aiming Right at Trump’s Achilles’ Heel
He drew a careful distinction in his testimony between actual efforts to fight corruption and a public statement that would damage one of the president’s opponents.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Here’s What Should Disqualify Michael Bloomberg
New York’s stop-and-frisk policy is just one example of the former mayor’s lack of respect for civil liberties.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Two Most Important Sentences of the Impeachment Hearings
Ambassador Gordon Sondland delivered a bombshell this morning.
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Doug Mills / The New York Times / ... The Weird Scenario That Pits President Pelosi Against Citizen Trump in 2020
A consistent reading of the Constitution suggests that the current process of succession is constitutional—and that barring Trump from running again would not be.
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Saul Loeb / Getty If We Adjust to Trumpism, the Republic Is Lost
What I mean when I say I’m in the resistance
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Win McNamee / Getty The Democratic Debates Are a Fantasy World
Presidents can’t wave a magic wand and make single-payer insurance happen. Voters deserve to know how the 2020 candidates would really govern.
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Hermes Images / AGF / Universal Images Group ... The Long-Forgotten Flight That Sent Boeing Off Course
A company once driven by engineers became driven by finance.
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Tom Brenner / Reuters The Trump Presidency Is in Free Fall
A series of crises has again brought the administration below its baseline of chaos—but this time, can the president recover?
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Tom Brenner / Reuters Trump’s White-Nationalist Vanguard
The emails of a key presidential aide show an extremist ideology influencing policy in the White House.
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Getty The GOP Appointees Who Defied the President
In the Watergate era, high-level aides prevented Nixon’s abuses of power. Trump’s underlings can do the same.
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Bettman / Getty How Conservatives Turned the ‘Color-Blind Constitution’ Against Racial Progress
Progressives used to argue that the Constitution doesn’t see race. Now conservatives have weaponized that same idea.
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Tom Brenner / Reuters How to Tell If Trump Is Winning
The president is turning to the same strategies he used against Robert Mueller to fend off Congress.
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Mark Makela / Reuters Look Who’s Trying to Seize Private Property
The Trump administration wants to use eminent domain to build the border wall.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters It’s Not the Greed—It’s the Inequality
The Democratic Party’s establishment is in denial about the ways in which concentrated riches are warping society and contributing to the disunity it seeks to heal.
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Evan Vucci / AP There Will Be No Victory in Dishonor
President Trump’s pardons for three service members accused of war crimes will have lasting consequences.
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP War Crimes Are Not Difficult to Discern
The president’s latest pardons reveal that he wants his fighters unconstrained by modern laws of armed conflict.
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Larry Downing / Reuters Trump’s Bureaucratic Arson
The real threat to democracy comes not from an imagined deep state, but from a weak state of hollowed-out institutions and battered and belittled public servants.
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Frank Scherschel / The LIFE Picture Collection / ... The Electoral College’s Racist Origins
More than two centuries after it was designed to empower southern white voters, the system continues to do just that.
