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April 2, 2026
Trump Has No Idea How to Clean Up His Own Mess
His speech told us very little, at least explicitly, but revealed quite a lot.
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March 30, 2026
She Was a Famous Millennial Feminist. Her Polyamory Memoir Is Heartbreaking.
Almost every ideology can be wielded to make women feel that they’re failing.
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March 27, 2026
Republicans Know This War Is Going Badly
Never before has America arrived at the threshold of a quagmire so quickly.
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March 18, 2026
Joe Kent Is a Dangerous Conspiracy Theorist. His Bravery Is Going to Make Him a Star.
Kent’s resignation letter is partly rooted in truth, even if it taps into old antisemitic tropes about occult Jewish control.
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March 18, 2026
Israel, the Iran War, and the G.O.P.’s Growing Antisemitism Problem
Michelle Goldberg on a dark political reality she found in Florida.
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March 17, 2026
How Trump Destroyed the Aura of the Wartime President
Even as he’s wrecking American institutions, he is revealing the limits of his cultural influence.
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March 12, 2026
I Went to Florida to See the 31-Year-Old Candidate Thrilling Gen Z. We’re in Trouble.
James Fishback has managed to bring the paranoid, transgressive, meme-drunk spirit of the right-wing internet into the real world.
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March 3, 2026
Trump Was Never Antiwar
Trump’s foreign policy has often been less a repudiation of neoconservatism than a mutation of it.
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February 27, 2026
How Israel Lost Americans
Netanyahu and his government deserve the growing bipartisan opprobrium they’re receiving.
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February 24, 2026
New York Democrats Have a Chance to Vote Against the A.I. Oligarchs
There’s a huge political opportunity for the party that can stand up for human beings in the face of A.I.
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February 20, 2026
Americans Don’t Want War With Iran. Trump Doesn’t Care.
All that matters to him is whether he thinks an attack is in his interests.
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February 16, 2026
He Studied Cognitive Science at Stanford. Then He Wrote a Startling Play About A.I. Authoritarianism.
A brisk theatrical thriller, “Data” perfectly captures the slick, grandiose language with which tech titans justify their potentially totalitarian projects.
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February 9, 2026
In the New Jersey Primary, ‘Abolish ICE’ Looks Like a Winning Message
Trump has thrust us into a new political world, and Democratic voters want leaders who can adapt.
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February 4, 2026
In Ohio, I Caught a Glimpse of the New Resistance
It’s not just blue America where people are readying themselves for disaster.
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January 23, 2026
No One Should Be Afraid to Say That Jasmine Crockett Can’t Win
Progressives shouldn’t let a retrograde style of internet discourse inhibit them from pointing out the obvious.
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January 16, 2026
The Right Is Furious With Liberal White Women
In the MAGA imagination, white women are supposed to be helpmeets, not harpies.
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January 13, 2026
The Resistance Libs Were Right
Trump’s message, the emotional core of his movement, has always been textbook fascism.
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