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August 31, 2026
How El-Sayed Could Dispatch His Hasan Piker Problem
Republicans hold their trolls close. For Democrats, it’s more complicated.
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August 21, 2026
Why Do We Keep Imagining a New Civil War?
Art doesn’t predict the future, but it can be an early warning system.
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August 18, 2026
After Jason Arday’s Death, Mistaken Calls for Censorship
Some who once championed Arday seem to be trying to deflect from their own embarrassing credulity.
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August 11, 2026
He Fired a Nazi Gun and Joked About Killing Old People. Republicans Don’t Seem Concerned.
Thanks to Trump, G.O.P. extremism has become so ordinary that it breaks through only when it reaches an absurdly high level.
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August 5, 2026
Abdul El-Sayed Thinks Progressives Have a Way to Win. I Hope He’s Right.
Abdul El-Sayed is quick, magnetic, overflowing with infectious confidence. But he also has a blind spot endemic to his movement.
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July 27, 2026
A Setback for the MAGA Media Takeover
Trump is beatable if you take a page from his playbook and flood the zone with opposition.
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July 24, 2026
Christopher Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ Shows That Epics Are Better Without A.I.
A.I. has rendered eye candy cheap. Viewers long for the visceral.
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July 13, 2026
The Ridiculous Rise of Victor Marx
Once started, the process of voter radicalization isn’t easy to modulate.
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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
The Graham Platner Experiment Failed
The Graham Platner experiment has failed. “There have been so many errors of judgment at every step of the way,” the columnist Michelle Goldberg argues following the implosion of the senate candida...
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July 7, 2026
Lessons From the Graham Platner Disaster
Many Democrats want representatives as furious as they are. That makes it easier for unfit candidates to escape proper vetting.
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June 30, 2026
In Michigan, the Most Moderate Candidate May Not Be the Most Electable
The case for Haley Stevens’s candidacy rests on electability, but it’s far from clear how electable she really is.
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June 24, 2026
Democrats Are Done With Caution
Tuesday’s primary demonstrated the astonishing political power of Mamdani and of the Democratic Socialists of America.
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June 16, 2026
The UFC 250 Was a Garish Spectacle of American Decline
Only the hackiest screenwriter imaginable would script America’s debasement this way.
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June 12, 2026
‘Yes’ Is a Scathing Portrait of Israeli Depravity. Why Are European Leftists Boycotting It?
The inanity of the leftists who’d censor such a film shouldn’t distract us from the right-wing nightmare it reveals.
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June 8, 2026
Why Everyone Wants Jon Ossoff to Run for President
The Georgia senator is excoriating Trump and his systemic corruption in a way that transcends the Democratic Party’s progressive-moderate divide.
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