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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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    Joe Manchin Might Finally Be a Force For GoodSomeone needs to make Democrats pick which social programs to scrap.
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    ‘Normal’ Republican Ron DeSantis Wants to Lock Up Anthony FauciBeing a less deranged authoritarian than Trump is a low bar.
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    A ‘War on Christmas’ StoryWho’s supposed to be waging this war? I have some idea.
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    Trump Took Over the GOP Because He’s Willing to Break ItAnd his Republican critics aren’t.
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    Unofficial Trump Propagandist Devin Nunes Makes It OfficialRepublican leaves Congress to lead Trump Media & Technology Group, where his job will barely change.
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    Republican Senator Tom Cotton Admits Trump, Not Biden, Caused InflationOops.
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    If Trump Voters Lived in Germany, They’d Be in the Fascist PartyNo, not that one.
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    Socialize College SportsUniversities need to take their athletics back from the free market.
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    Lauren Boebert’s Bigoted Attack on Ilhan OmarSmearing Muslims for fun and profit.
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    Republicans Are Undermining the Vaccine and Blaming Biden for It“Why do so many right-wing people distrust the vaccine?” conservatives wonder. It is a mystery.
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    Chris Christie and the Death of the Never Trump Republican“The line of supporting Donald Trump starts behind me!”
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    Joe Biden’s Big SqueezeProgressive donors to the left of him, cynical centrists to the right — a unified theory of why his popular agenda is so unpopular.
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    No, the Steele Dossier Did Not Invent the Russia ScandalThe report was faulty, but Trump was very, very guilty.
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    Sinema: We’re All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This to Biden’s AgendaSenator concerned about promises that can’t be delivered (because of her).
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    DeSantis Spokesperson Suggests Rothschilds Plotted to Impose Vaccine PassportIt was the obvious next step after the space lasers.
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    Report: Sidney Powell Even Crazier Than You ThinkA brief taxonomy of Trump lawyer brain illness.
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    Trump Openly Defends Insurrectionists Trying to Hang Pence As ‘Common Sense’The slow, inevitable evolution of the former president’s pro-riot rhetoric.
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    Sinema: Households Earning $9 Million a Year Are Too Poor to Pay More TaxFinally, a senator who looks out for the high-seven-figure-income class.
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    Maybe We Should Have Listened to Larry Summers’s Warnings About InflationHe likes Build Back Better!
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    Republican Infrastructure Supporters Facing Right-Wing PurgeThe only good infrastructure bill is a Trump infrastructure bill.
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    Report: Corporations Ready to Resume Donating to Pro-Coup RepublicansIt’s not because they’ve solved the problem of Republican authoritarianism.
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    The House Progressive Caucus, Unlike the Freedom Caucus, Is SanePramila Jayapal’s progressive faction was trying to pass a bill all along.
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    Democrats Need to Face Up to Their Public School ProblemEducation should be helping Democrats, not hurting. What happened?
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    Joe Manchin Is Actually Right About Fixing Biden’s PlanDemocrats can’t half-fund social programs.
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    Mitt Romney’s Nonsensical Defense of the FilibusterA point-by-point rebuttal.
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    Conservatives Are Giving Ron DeSantis the Trump TreatmentDefend the imaginary version, ignore the real thing.
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    Biden’s Build Back Better Plan Can Be Great, But Congress Needs to Fix ItLock in the revenue and climate, pare down the social spending.
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    How the Right-Wing Supreme Court Can Save Biden’s Economic PlanConservative judicial activism to the rescue!
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    Glenn Youngkin’s Closing Message: Ban Toni Morrison From SchoolsVirginia Republican wants the angriest parents to have a veto on school curriculum.
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    Republican Leaders Could Still Stop Trump. They Just Don’t Want To.Trump wants to erode democracy. They just want to win.
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    Ron DeSantis Goes All In on Vaccine SkepticismNo more playing coy.
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    Biden Has Two Long-Shot Plans to Placate Kyrsten SinemaHail Mary time.
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    Report: Sinema Bent to Destroy Biden Presidency to Keep Taxes on the Wealthy LowThis is extremely bad.
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    Hoping Republicans Extend Your Social Agenda Is Not a PlanThe perils of Biden’s short-term program strategy.
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    Conservatives Are Starting to Say Covid Is a Positive GoodThe creepy final stage of denial.
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    5 Theories on What Kyrsten Sinema WantsIs she just the Glenn Greenwald of senators?
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    Republicans Are Rehabilitating the Participants in Trump’s Attempted CoupThe campaign to defend John Eastman.
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    Marco Rubio Doesn’t Know What a ‘Socialist’ Is, But He Knows Biden Is One.The Florida Republican gives a master class in political philosophy.
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    Anybody Fighting Joe Biden Now Is Helping Trump’s Next CoupAll Republican politics is now functionally authoritarian.
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    Centrist Democrats Need to Suck It Up and NegotiateDon’t get angry at liberals for stealing your signature move.
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    John Durham’s Attempt to Discredit Trump’s Russiagate Enemies Is Falling ApartThe prosecutor omitted key evidence from his indictment.
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    Joe Manchin Just Might Finally Be Onto SomethingGlimmers of hope in his quasi-plan.
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    If You Think Progressives Won’t Compromise With Centrists, You Have It BackwardsTaking a “centrist” stance doesn’t always mean you’re reasonable.
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    Tim Scott Turns Against His Own Police-Reform PlanRepublican senator once supported tying grants to reform; now he calls it “defunding the police.”
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    Conservatives Are Having Another Nervous Breakdown Over ‘Socialism’Joe Biden is still a capitalist.
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    Trump Lawsuit Says He’s Too Addicted to Twitter to Make Rational DecisionsThis is in a lawsuit to get Trump back on Twitter.
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    Tucker Carlson Blows Up Murdoch’s White Supremacy Denial on AirSo much for “White replacement theory? No, no.”
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    What Jonathan Franzen and the Left Get Wrong About Free SpeechWait for an emergency to break ranks with your allies, and eventually it will be too late.
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    The Horrifying Legal Blueprint for Trump’s War on DemocracyThe Eastman memo is a new high-water mark in Republican authoritarianism.
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    Kyrsten Sinema Threatens to Kill Her Own Infrastructure BillDemocrats in Congress are melting down.
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