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May 22, 2026
Memo to Ezra Klein: Check Out Wichita and Boise
You don’t need to scrap planning and zoning to get abundant and affordable housing. In fact, planning and zoning can help get housing built.
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May 20, 2026
Trump Trips Up Trump
The continuing negative fallout from Trump’s crusades against his own party’s incumbents
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May 19, 2026
Bending the Knee to Trump
If Colorado’s Gov. Jared Polis commuted the sentence of election thief Tina Peters in hope of appeasing Trump and getting funding restored, he may wait a long time.
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May 18, 2026
A Turn to the Left in Britain?
Even if progressive Andy Burnham becomes the next British prime minister, will global hyper-capitalism allow him to succeed?
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May 15, 2026
Trump’s Nothingburger Banquet in Beijing
The president comes home empty-handed from his summit with Xi Jinping.
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May 13, 2026
Rolling Back Medicare Advantage
How a group of rank-and-file retirees in Connecticut successfully organized to restore their right to traditional public Medicare
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May 12, 2026
Trump’s Weird New Global Order
One positive effect is that midsized powers are less under the sway of Washington. But they could come under the sway of China.
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May 11, 2026
Wall Street’s Favorite Democrat
Rahm Emanuel is back, running for president as a corporate Democrat. His timing is terrible.
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May 8, 2026
An Epic Collapse for Britain’s Labour Party
Britain’s centrist Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer crashes while Spain’s Socialist Pedro Sánchez shows how to lead from the left. Could there be a lesson here?
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May 7, 2026
We Need a Pulitzer for Substacks
These individual newsletters are a whole new genre. At their best, they have breathed new life into journalism and public discourse.
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May 6, 2026
A Billion in Taxpayer Money for Trump’s Ballroom
In his vanity, Trump seems determined to alienate Republicans in Congress from most voters.
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May 4, 2026
The Mifepristone Ruling Revives Pro-Choice Politics
A federal court’s ban on the mailing of abortion medication once again demonstrates the unpopularity of anti-abortion zealotry.
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May 1, 2026
Turning Civil Rights Inside Out
The Supreme Court has now invited racial gerrymandering, as merely political and thus beyond judicial challenge.
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April 30, 2026
The Real Reason to Worry About the Midterm Elections
Some worry about a November Trump coup. That’s far-fetched, but the ordinary forms of voter suppression are the greater concern.
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April 27, 2026
Spirit Socialism: Trump’s vs. Ours
The proposed bailout of Spirit Airlines is Trump’s worst deal yet. But in clean hands, socialized ownership sometimes makes sense.
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April 24, 2026
Time to Stop Lionizing Powell
The Fed chair has been an enabler of the economy’s hyper-financialization and speculative excess. Resistance to Trump is too low a bar.
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April 22, 2026
The Working Families Party Goes National
The WFP has unveiled a national platform and is building party organizations in nearly two dozen states.
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April 21, 2026
The Tariff Refund Nightmare
In principle, Americans are owed $166 billion in refunds of Trump’s illegal tariffs. But actually collecting is like unscrambling an egg.
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April 20, 2026
Trump Sabotages His Own Much-Exaggerated Iran Deal
Did the president screw up a possible agreement with his own impulsivity? Or was the imminent deal that he touted on Friday an illusion all along?
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April 17, 2026
How Trump Undermines Trump
Consider the president’s self-defeating assault against Jerome Powell.
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April 14, 2026
The Faltering War Economy
Trump’s war craters the economy in multiple ways, even if it somehow ends soon.
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April 13, 2026
Trump’s Kiss of Life
Canada’s Mark Carney, Denmark’s Mette Frederiksen, and maybe even Britain’s Keir Starmer can thank Trump for reviving their sagging fortunes. Viktor Orbán, not so much.
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April 10, 2026
Israel and the Cease-Fire
Will Bibi Netanyahu manage to keep the war going, or will Trump finally appreciate that U.S. interests and Bibi’s are far from identical?
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April 9, 2026
Trump’s Wreckage of Social Security and Medicare
The assault on cherished social insurance programs is a gift to Democrats, but only if they are clear about how to defend them.
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April 8, 2026
Mass Protest: Where Are the Kids?
The latest No Kings marches attracted a record eight million people. Most of them were of an advanced age that suggested they personally remembered the 1960s.
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April 6, 2026
Trump’s Death Panel
The proposed cuts in several forms of health care spending are a real version of the fake “death panels” that the right attributed to Obama’s Affordable Care Act.
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April 3, 2026
Bumping Bondi
There are several other Trump cabinet members even more deserving of dismissal. Who’s next?
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April 3, 2026
Capital Ideas
Two books on the history of capitalism provide lessons for how to tame it.
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April 1, 2026
Trump’s Losing Streak in Court
Based on today’s oral arguments, the Supreme Court seems poised to block Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship.
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March 31, 2026
Notes for Next Time
My generation got a very good economic deal. We need to restore opportunities to our children and grandchildren, or there will be more recruits to MAGA.
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