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After the tariffs, they’re worried they made a MAGA mistake.
After the tariffs, they’re worried they made a MAGA mistake.
The right’s muddled response to Trump’s student deportations expose its paper-thin commitment to the principle.
The chat logs revealed an administration that wants to both dominate the world and withdraw from it.
The MAGA movement loves Israel — but is increasingly hostile to Jews.
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Ed Martin went from a little-known conservative activist to US Attorney for DC — all because of Stop the Steal.
Russ Vought, Trump’s OMB director, wrote an essay in 2022 that reads like a blueprint for what was to come.
Philosopher Richard Rorty predicted that someone like Trump might bring back public cruelty.
Hungarians who lived through Viktor Orbán’s 2010 power grab warn Americans: Act now, before it’s too late.
The order to shut off federal grants reveals a vision of the presidency at odds with basic democratic principles.
The executive orders expose the strategy: claim to be defending democracy as you dismantle it.
The new president’s designs on Canada and Greenland fit into a very old American tradition.
What the author of Vox’s newsletter on conservatism thinks will happen — and why.
A tale of two killings.
When it comes to politics, Elon Musk’s ideas are utterly, revealingly conventional.
What one of the right’s greatest thinkers would make of Trumponomics.
The ominous implication of an outburst that ties two strains of right-wing thought together.
Robinson isn’t the only nonwhite bigot to get famous of late. How should we understand their growing prominence?
Trump says nasty things about immigrants all the time. But these ones have disturbingly specific Nazi parallels.
Harvey Mansfield’s book on “manliness” prefigured JD Vance’s musings about “childless cat ladies” by nearly two decades.
A new book shows how people are getting the right’s class appeal all wrong.
An radical troll got unmasked — and then spilled the beans.
JD Vance and like-minded conservatives are theorizing a kind of “neopatriarchy.”
The dark worldview of Trump’s choice for vice president, explained.
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