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Jonathan Chait

Jonathan Chait has been a political columnist at New York since 2011 and writes the newsletter &c. He is the author of Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail.

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    The One Argument Conservatives Have Made Against Every New Social ProgramOnce you hook voters on government, they’ll keep wanting more.
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    Mitch McConnell and the Agony of the Post-Trump Corporate RepublicanThey expected to be off moral probation after Trump. Then came Georgia.
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    Trump’s Campaign Bilked His Fans Out of Millions Because of Course It DidTrump is history’s greatest con man.
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    Republicans Love Infrastructure, Unless It’s Paid for, or Not Paid forDoesn’t leave a lot of options.
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    Georgia’s Jim Crow Lite Vote Suppression Continues Trump’s War on Democracy“Voter suppression is when you don’t get to vote,” says Ben Shapiro.
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    The Fake Republican Fight With Corporate AmericaStick it to Big Business by … keeping its taxes low.
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    For Republicans, the Time Is Never Quite Right to Tax the RichCan’t tax the rich during or after a pandemic.
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    Russia Keeps Bribing Foreign Politicians. Is Trump Different?Another payoff exposed, this time in Ukraine, that looks just like Trump’s Moscow deal.
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    Why the Republican War on Democracy Is Moving to the StatesClamping down on voting, purging Republican officials who refused to break the law for Trump.
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    Biden’s First Big Break With His Allies Is Over School ReopeningsThe president’s choice to prioritize the rapid return to in-person learning has surprised and dismayed his friends and his enemies alike.
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    Trump Complains Government Is ‘Persecuting’ Capitol Rioters“It was zero threat, right from the start.”
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    Here’s Why the Filibuster Is a Jim Crow RelicA peculiar Senate rule that has stayed around only because of racism.
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    Bernie Sanders Questions Twitter’s Ban on Donald TrumpDo we want to cede this power to a private firm?
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    Why Republicans Have No Good Arguments Against D.C. StatehoodGOP representative: “D.C. would be the only state in America without a car dealership, without a landfill.”
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    Anti-Tax Lobby Seeks to Purge Democracy Supporters From the Republican PartyWhy is the Club for Growth going after Liz Cheney?
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    Trump’s Lackeys Are Teaming Up Again With Putin to Mock BidenMoscow and Mar-a-Lago are angry Biden called Putin a “killer.”
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    GOP Rep: I Didn’t Intend to Blame Jews for the Space-Laser ConspiracyMarjorie Taylor Greene: “I didn’t even know and didn’t find out until recently that the Rothschilds were Jewish.”
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    Republicans: End the Filibuster, and We’ll Punish America by Enacting Our AgendaMitch McConnell’s strangest defense of the supermajority rule.
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    Ron Johnson Complains His Delusional Riot Claims Are Being ‘Silenced’A hypothetical left-wing riot becomes the justification to dismiss a real right-wing one.
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    Just Reopen the Schools NowSix feet of distance between desks is bunk. Learning loss is real. End this disaster.
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    Conservatives Are Furious Biden Delivered a Non-Insane Presidential SpeechToo threatening, too skinny, too pro-vaccine, complains the right.
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    ‘Everybody Shouldn’t Be Voting,’ Republican Blurts OutConservative arguments against voting rights haven’t changed in 60 years.
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    The GOP Response to Biden’s Rescue Act Is a Massive Gift to Wealthy HeirsIt isn’t a workers’ party.
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    Somebody’s Taking a Huge Risk on Biden’s Bill. It’s Not Biden.Pundits think Biden is making a mistake passing a massively popular bill?
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    Biden’s Domestic Legacy Will Disappear Unless His Next Move WorksThe Democrats have a two-stage strategy that hasn’t been tried before.
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    Joe Manchin Says He Might Reform the Filibuster and Save American DemocracyDeciphering the most important policy statement of the year.
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    How Never Trumpers Are Becoming Pro-Democracy RepublicansRepublicans who left the party over Trump are staying away over authoritarianism.
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    Neanderthals Were Smarter Than Anti-Mask RepublicansThe right is angry, but Biden was probably too kind to Greg Abbott.
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    Why Glenn Greenwald Says Tucker Carlson Is a True SocialistIt’s a (National Socialist German) workers’ party now.
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    I Read Mike Pence’s Blueprint for Permanent Authoritarian RuleChange the voting rules so mobs aren’t needed again.
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    Zero COVID Risk Is the Wrong StandardThe fallacy of complete safety.
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    Mitt Romney’s Former Aide Thinks He’s Gone Soft on the PoorWe handle problems all the time without dealing with their root causes.
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    How Trumpism Has Become a Cult of LosingWhy do Republicans still love a loser whose entire appeal was that he’s a “winner”?
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    The Republicans’ Long War to Roll Back the New Deal Is Finally OverA decades-long quest quietly perishes.
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    The Future of Conservatism Is Flight 93 Elections ForeverMichael Anton sees the January 6 riot as the start of a new revolutionary spirit on the right.
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    Donald Trump Is Extremely Mad Prosecutors Will See His Tax ReturnsFormer president releases statement that’s angry even by his standards.
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    An Ex-KGB Agent Says Trump Was a Russian Asset Since 1987. Does It Matter?Revisiting the Trump-Russia mystery in light of the newest revelation.
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    How Biden’s Coronavirus Plan Will Fill the Holes in ObamacareThe Democratic strategy to expand coverage to millions.
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    Rush Limbaugh Taught Republicans to Love an Angry, Racist BullyLimbaugh and Trump were almost the same person.
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    Stop Treating Celebrities Like Politicians (and Vice Versa)Demanding entertainers have fine-tuned political antennae is madness.
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    Full Employment Is (Maybe) Possible AgainThe fiscal and monetary constraints that have shackled every Democratic president for more than half a century have broken.
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    Republican Senators Are Asking the Courts to Take Care of Trump for ThemWe can’t impeach, but can you lock him up?
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    New Evidence Shows Trump Used Riot to Pressure Congress to Steal ElectionTrump may not have planned the attack, but now we know he exploited it.
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    Trump’s Defense: What About Democratic Violence? (Answer: There Wasn’t Any.)His impeachment lawyers focus on whataboutism.
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    Firing Actors for Being Conservative Is Another Hollywood BlacklistWhat is the principled difference between barring communists and barring conservatives?
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    Trump’s Lawyer Rambles Through Hilariously Incoherent Impeachment DefenseBruce Castor was sick the day they taught law in law school.
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    Republicans: Trump Can’t Be Impeached Because He Can’t Be ImpeachedWe won’t vote to convict Trump because he’s going to be acquitted.
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    Describing a Slur Is Not the Same As Using ItThe New York Times declares a new standard.
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    The Forces That Stopped Obama’s Recovery Will Not Stop Biden’sThe political atmosphere for stimulus is nothing like 2009.
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    Would Trump Have Won if Not for Impeachment? A Pro-Trump Journalist Thinks So.A conservative makes the case that impeachment didn’t backfire.
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