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An Effective Resistance Strategy Against Trump’s Constitutional Assaults Needs to Mobilize Both Courts and Public Opinion
History shows that the two work in tandem and we shouldn’t pick one or the other
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Ilya Somin
South Africans of All Hues Are Laughing at Trump’s Ridiculous Claims of ‘White Genocide’
But that cannot stop the damage he is doing to their economy and psyche
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Eve Fairbanks
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Trump Feeds Grift, Graft, and Greed from the White House: A Video Roundup
Our early-June collection of clips on the administration's corruption bonanza
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Landry Ayres
William F. Buckley Cemented the Conservative Movement’s Preoccupation with the Liberal Enemy
He couldn’t define what conservatism was, just what it wasn’t
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Joshua Tait
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Tyranny Has Invaded America Through the Immigration Enforcement Regime
Immigration helps the country become freer and more prosperous and restrictionism is doing the opposite
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Alex Nowrasteh
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The War on the Woke Trumps the Truth for Many Heterodox Thinkers
 • Radley Balko
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There Is No Piecing Back Our Badly Shattered Constitutional Order
 • Andy Craig
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Trump's America Is in a Free Fall—Not a Slippery Slope—to Tyranny
 • Larry Diamond
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The Free Press' Passage Into the Dark Side
 • Matt Johnson
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To Fight Authoritarianism, Libertarians Need to be More Pro-Liberty, Not Just Anti-State
Blogger Noah Smith’s praise for libertarianism comes at an odd time but offers an opportunity to clarify the side that has contributed to human freedom…
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Matt Zwolinski
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Will Appeals Courts Affirm that Trump Is Abusing His Emergency Power by Imposing Sweeping Tariffs? A Conversation with Ilya Somin
Courts may stop the president this time but Congress also needs to act to stop future abuses
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Robert Tracinski
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Trump Threatens Media Network for Covering His Solicitation of a $400 Million Luxury Jet Bribe: An Executive Watch Roundup
Our early-June selection of the president's latest and greatest assaults on the rule of law
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Robert Tracinski
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The Slanted Investigation by a Right-Leaning Publication That Helped the Administration Target Harvard University
The Washington Free Beacon’s report alleging that the elite university’s law journal was making decisions based primarily on race and gender is…
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Cathy Young
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The Supreme Court Should Resist Handing Sweeping Removal Powers to this President in the Name of Constitutional Purity
If an authoritarian weren’t in the White House, conservative justices could have justified doing so
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Corbin K. Barthold
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Let's Rededicate Ourselves to a Nonpartisan Military Free of Domestic Entanglements this Memorial Day
Trump's plan to deploy the military for immigration enforcement will set a dangerous precedent that'll undermine our democracy
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Christopher Purdy
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Postliberals and NatCons See an Opening in Trumpism to Impose Their Respective Agendas: A Conversation with Jerome Copulsky
Both share a critique of liberal individualism but have vastly different ideas of what a religious state ought to look like
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Berny Belvedere
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Trump Aggressively Grabs Power from the Other Branches: A Video Roundup
Our mid-May collection of clips on the White House’s efforts to consolidate executive power
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Landry Ayres
There Is No Piecing Back Our Badly Shattered Constitutional Order
We are past the point of crisis and have entered an era when our political disputes will be settled by the raw exercise of power, not the law
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Andy Craig
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U.K.’s Labour Government and Tories Are Both Abandoning Liberal Pluralism in the Wake of Nigel Farage’s Victory
Instead of fighting right-wing populism and nativism, they are surrendering to it
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Alan Elrod
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Postliberal Christian Academics Want a Religious Coup to Replace America's Constitutional Liberalism
They see Trump as a Constantine-like figure who can help them take over America
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Jerome Copulsky
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Trump Uses the Presidency to Enrich Himself Through a Corrupt Crypto Scam: An Executive Watch Roundup
Our mid-May selection of the president's latest and greatest assaults on the rule of law
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DOGE’s Cruelty—and Lies—Will Taint the Cause of Downsizing Government
Musk’s chainsaw approach has failed to deliver the promised savings to taxpayers while making future reforms harder
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Berny Belvedere
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Trump’s Effort to become the Supreme Leader Has Roots in a Nazi Philosopher
His lawless view of his sovereign powers was articulated by Carl Schmitt
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Andy Craig
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Liberalism & Religion

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The Faithless Are the More Reliable Liberals
Enlightenment rationalists who rejected revealed dogma in favor of scientific inquiry paved the way for open, tolerant societies
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Robert Tracinski
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Contrary to Western Understanding, Islam Is a Liberal Faith
No religion can be properly understood based on its most extreme proponents
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Hassan Abbas
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Zahra Hassan
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An Illiberal Hinduism Is a Contradiction in Terms
Hindu fundamentalists are destroying everything that makes their faith unique and profound
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Shashi Tharoor
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Liberalism and Catholicism: Friends Not Foes
Both traditions are rooted in a belief in universal human dignity
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James M. Patterson
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Buddhism and Liberalism Are Mutually Reinforcing
The faith’s emphasis on accepting impermanence offers an ethical framework for a dynamic, open society
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Aaron Ross Powell
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Liberal Individualism Has Deep Roots in Protestantism
Illiberalism cannot be reconciled with the core tenets of the faith
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Rachel Ferguson
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Liberal Ideals Can Strengthen, Not Weaken, Judaism
And the Jewish faith’s emphasis on mitzvah is an antidote to self-absorbed individualism
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Elliott Malamet
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Fireproofing the Presidency

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America Desperately Needs a National Anti-SLAPP Law to Stop Censorship by Bad Political Actors
It’ll help prevent the weaponization of frivolous lawsuits against critics and opponents
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Ken White
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State Constitutions Are Far Better at Constraining Executive Power and Defending Rights than the Federal One
Committed liberals should look to them for guidance on structural reforms to stop Uncle Sam’s attacks on American liberties
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Anthony Sanders
Trump Will Drive His Dubious Appointments Through the Vacancies Act's Many Loopholes
Congress and courts can still plug some of them to prevent him from stacking the federal government with deep partisans and loyalists
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Thomas A. Berry
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How to Stop President-Elect Trump’s Potentially Abusive Domestic Deployments of the Military
Current law unfortunately allows him wide latitude to call in soldiers but they can’t run roughshod over the rights of Americans
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Scott R. Anderson
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Congress Should Curb the Illicit Use of Pardon Powers by a Rogue President
Reforming lobbying laws and FOIA can check the worst abuses despite the Supreme Court’s ill-considered immunity ruling
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Kim Wehle
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Act Now to Prevent Trump From Weaponizing the FCC Against Political Opponents
If reelected, Trump will be even more dangerous because previous presidents have left a bad precedent of regulatory abuses that he'll turbocharge
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Paul Matzko
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Trump’s Schedule F Will Create a Civil Service that Serves His Whim Not the Rule of Law
We urgently need reforms to prevent an executive from issuing executive orders to turn bureaucrats into loyal foot soldiers
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Don Moynihan
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How We Can Stiffen the Spine of DOJ Prosecutors Who Donald Trump Would Need to Prosecute his Political Enemies
The Supreme Court’s immunity ruling weakened oversight over the abuse of executive authority but we can salvage some constitutional guardrails
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Conor Gaffney
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Genevieve Nadeau
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In the Age of Social Media, Can We Use the Marketplace of Ideas to Serve Truth Not Lies?
Without content moderation, sites would be unusable and yet that opens them to attacks by aggrieved but powerful political players
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Are There Better Foreign Policy Alternatives to Liberal Internationalism?
Despite its internal contradictions and hypocrisy, ditching it will lead to a more cynical and grim world
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What Kind of Electoral Reforms Would Stop America's Slide Toward Authoritarianism?
Replacing its winner-take-all system with proportional representation would help but it'll have to be engineered carefully
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Climate Catastrophism Leads to Illiberalism but Doesn’t Solve the Problem
There are liberal solutions available but the right’s denialism and the left’s alarmism are getting in the way
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Is There Anything New in the New-Right's Critiques of Liberalism?
Yes and No
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World

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South Africans of All Hues Are Laughing at Trump’s Ridiculous Claims of ‘White Genocide’
But that cannot stop the damage he is doing to their economy and psyche
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Eve Fairbanks
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U.K.’s Labour Government and Tories Are Both Abandoning Liberal Pluralism in the Wake of Nigel Farage’s Victory
Instead of fighting right-wing populism and nativism, they are surrendering to it
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Alan Elrod
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Addressing Cultural Fears Could Renew Public Support for Immigration
A multi-national survey found that requiring immigrants to integrate overcomes much of the opposition to opening the door to them
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Morris Levy
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Matthew Wright
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A Liberal Victory Does Not Mean Populist Furies Are Dead in Canada
For that, the party will have to correct its abysmal governing failure and deliver economic results
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Janet Bufton
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The World Shouldn't Ignore that Hamas Terrorizes Innocents in Gaza, Too
Lumping every Gazan with this brutal outfit is morally wrong and is leading to catastrophe
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Faisal Saeed Al Mutar
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Ahmed Alrayyis
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Oligarchs in Bed with Autocrats Would Kill the Prospects for Liberalism in Space
Neither Elon Musk nor the Chinese government should get to steer space policy
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Kenneth Silber
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Trump's Cruel and Lawless Deportations: Our Video Roundup
The crackdown is busting the Constitution along with immigrants
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Landry Ayres
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Trump's Attacks on the Human Rights of Palestinians Are Next Level
But Biden's policies toward a people that is suffering massively and needs help were flawed too
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Emily Tamkin
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