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July 16, 2026
The progressive executive power delusion
The Supreme Court isn’t on your side.
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July 16, 2026
Is there any “oligarchy” to fight?
I don’t think a small cabal of right-wing rich people controls American politics.
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July 15, 2026
Farms aren’t nature
A banal take with serious consequences
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July 14, 2026
Trump hasn’t even tried to pass an immigration bill
You can’t change the Constitution with executive orders, but Trump might be able to destroy it.
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July 13, 2026
The midterm candidates who deserve your money
Our updated recommendations for political giving
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July 10, 2026
The promise and peril of an abundance faction
Plus Platner, the Costco economy, and some inexplicable internet beefs
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July 9, 2026
‘There’s No Graham Platner Without Donald Trump’: 3 Writers on the Fiasco in Maine
How much have the rules of politics changed?
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July 9, 2026
Mark Carney’s national liberalism
The center-left exception to the rule
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July 9, 2026
Jane Jacobs’s urbanism without economics
Matt and Jerusalem revisit “The Death and Life of Great American Cities.”
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July 8, 2026
The Resistance’s favorite poker metaphor makes no sense
Stop being dupes for leftists who don’t care about beating MAGA.
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July 7, 2026
Baltimore’s incredible crime-fighting success story
“Focused deterrence,” explained
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July 6, 2026
To save capitalism we need radical land-use reform
Socialism is not the answer, but the status quo isn’t working.
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July 3, 2026
Reformist Democrats need more team spirit
Plus how the Tea Party was misunderstood, N.Y.C. media, and Andy Beshear’s presidential campaign
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July 2, 2026
They should teach patriotism in schools
Public schools have an important civic purpose beyond reading and math.
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July 2, 2026
The case for assimilation
Is it true that “Muslims” — or anyone else — “shouldn’t have to assimilate to belong”?
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June 30, 2026
Trump’s weird D.C.-specific initiatives, ranked
The good, the bad, and the merely wasteful
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June 29, 2026
What New York City taught me about Dutch values
The Dutch apparently had no idea they had values.
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June 26, 2026
The paradoxes of populism
Plus nuclear cargo ships, the ROAD to Housing Act, and when results matter
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June 25, 2026
The narrow path to saving the republic
A look at the state of the midterms
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June 25, 2026
Ranking Joe Biden’s mistakes
How did he fuck up? Let us count the ways.
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June 24, 2026
Should data centers pay a carbon tax?
Two things voters hate, together at last!
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June 23, 2026
What I learned as Chuck Schumer’s intern
Lessons from a time when everyone cared about swing voters
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June 22, 2026
Against urban planning
What I didn’t learn from playing SimCity with a former mayor
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June 19, 2026
Happy Juneteenth
A day off — and some news.
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June 18, 2026
What New York used to be
Plus the Ottoman Empire, the realities of polarization, and where the left is struggling
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June 18, 2026
Grading the internet’s dating advice
Every young person needs a married political pundit’s take on dating
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June 17, 2026
The Democrats Need Better Candidates. This Guy Knows How to Find Them.
The 2024 election showed that the party is simply not large enough to command a majority of the country.
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June 17, 2026
How to fix transit construction in America
Introducing the Transit Abundance Playbook
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June 17, 2026
The real problem with “gifted” education
It’s almost all selection effects! We should care more about actual efficacy in teaching.
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June 16, 2026
Better immigration can help fix the debt
We should be more selective — and select more people
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