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Trump Has Taken Only Months to Accomplish the Level of Authoritarian Consolidation That Took Orbán and Modi Years
But America's aversion to tyranny gives it a much better chance of restoring its liberal democracy than their countries
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Shikha Dalmia
Trump Takes the Bat to the World: A Video Roundup
Our early-November collection of clips on the president's attempts to project dominance far beyond America’s borders
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Landry Ayres
JB Pritzker Might Become the Face of America’s Resistance by Taking on Trump’s Authoritarianism
By targeting Illinois, the president might have created his nemesis even as the national Democratic Party flails around for an effective message
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Steve Chapman
The Election Was a Rebuke of Trump and Not Only Because He Has Failed to Deliver Economic Relief
Its lesson is that Democrats should vigorously attack his economic record and his tyrannical agenda
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Andy Craig
Tucker Carlson Is Resurrecting Christianity's Ugly Tradition of Antisemitism
In rejecting universalism, the talk show host and his recent guest, white supremacist Nick Fuentes, are rejecting Christ himself
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Mark Tooley
Will Mamdani Govern More as a Democratic Socialist or as an Abundance Liberal?
His policy evolution and the team he’s assembling suggest that he could be moving in a market-friendly direction
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Tibita Kaneene
Trump Is Using His Office to Enrich Himself and His Family: An Executive Watch Roundup
Our late-October selection of the president's latest and greatest assaults on the rule of law
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Robert Tracinski
Trump's New Directive Could Treat All Those Who Oppose Him as Terrorists
NSPM-7's scope is so broad and vague it would allow the president to target anyone who speaks out against him or MAGA as a national security threat
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Robert Tracinski
Want to End the Gerrymandering Wars? Embrace Proportional Representation
Trump has triggered a particularly fierce round, but the logic of war is inherent in a winner-take-all system
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Andy Craig
The Neo-Right Rejects Liberalism Because It Wants to Rule by Brute Force Not Consensus: A LibCon2025 Panel Discussion
Its slams on a neutral liberal state are sophistic and stem from a deeply nihilistic worldview
Liberalism Is a Bold Force That Ends Corrupt, Oppressive, and Arbitrary Hierarchies
It doesn't defend the status quo, it upends it
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Joshua Reed Eakle
What Kind of Country Is Trump Turning America Into? A Video Roundup
Our late-October collection of clips on how Trump has stripped America’s institutions of their ethical core
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Landry Ayres
The Failure of Macron’s Technocratic Governing Style Is Boosting the Nativist Right in France
Contrary to the French president’s aims, the cordon sanitaire that kept Le Pen’s National Rally out of the government is crumbling
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Marlene Laruelle
No, There Never Was a Biden Censorship-Industrial Complex
The real threat to free speech is MAGA officials using this conspiracy to justify their own censorship
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Renee DiResta
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Can Each Side's Faith Break the Cycle of Mutually Assured Destruction for Israelis and Palestinians?
An epistolary exchange between an Islamic scholar and a rabbi points to the concept of universal empathy in their traditions as the key
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Yoram Hazony’s National Conservatism Wants to Abandon Liberal Democracy so that the Jewish People Maintain Hegemony in Israel
He wants to give Protestant America the right to disempower other faiths and ethnic groups so that Israel can do the same
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Authoritarian Rulers Are Co-Opting the Sphere of the Sacred to Consolidate Control
China’s attempt to designate the new Dalai Lama in violation of longstanding Tibetan tradition is the most visible example of this trend
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The turn away from Jesus and lust for power is ruining the Protestant faith and the polity
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An incisive book by an atheist convincingly shows how both major strands of this faith tradition lost their way
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Bishop Budde Wasn’t Breaching Her Clerical Charge by Speaking Truth to Trump from the Pulpit
Her choice of the prophetic role drew on a long tradition in American democracy and it was the right call
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Moses Can Lead Israelis and Palestinians Out of Their Bloody Conflict
The prophet revered by Jews and Muslims can help them overcome their ‘darkest hour,’ Mustafa Akyol's historical account shows
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Fireproofing the Presidency

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Trump Is Using Fake Emergencies to Grab More Power than King George III
He has complete contempt for the legal and statutory limits to his authority so more laws will not constrain him
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Chris Edelson
Trump’s Leaked Plan to Deploy the Texas National Guard Against Illinois Will Tear Apart the Union
If it goes forward, it will plunge the country into an unprecedented constitutional crisis
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Andy Craig
A Trump Appointee Slaps Down Pam Bondi’s Malign Lawsuit Against Maryland Judges
Her attempt to weaponize the DOJ and intimidate them for upholding basic due process for vulnerable migrants failed
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Walter Olson
The Truth Is, There Are No Legal Limits on an American President’s Warmaking
And the public no longer really cares about distant wars whose bill won’t come due for a while
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The Judiciary Will Become Virtually Powerless in Protecting Your Rights if the Current Budget Bill Becomes Law
Senate Republicans have proposed an even worse version of a House provision that will require citizens suing the government to post enormous sums in…
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Clint Bolick
Don't Be Fooled, Courts Can't Really Stop Trump From Assaulting Law Firms
He has too many means to intimidate them that judicial relief cannot touch, scaring them away from representing politically disfavored clients
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Walter Olson
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
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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Trump Has Taken Only Months to Accomplish the Level of Authoritarian Consolidation That Took Orbán and Modi Years
But America's aversion to tyranny gives it a much better chance of restoring its liberal democracy than their countries
 • 
Shikha Dalmia
The Failure of Macron’s Technocratic Governing Style Is Boosting the Nativist Right in France
Contrary to the French president’s aims, the cordon sanitaire that kept Le Pen’s National Rally out of the government is crumbling
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Marlene Laruelle
Is a Liberal Realignment Emerging from the Rubble of MAGA Authoritarianism?
Democrats have an opportunity to champion a confident, forward-looking market liberalism given that the GOP has fully returned to its reactionary roots
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China's Authoritarian Regime Is Censoring American Universities: A Conversation with Sarah McLaughlin
Elite universities with deep pockets have no excuse for putting their financial interests ahead of their values
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Aaron Ross Powell
Brazil Rejects Trump’s Bullying and Convicts His Ally Bolsonaro for Insurrection
It is beginning to regard the U.S. as a threat to its sovereignty and is strengthening ties with China
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David De Vilhena Roque Cohen
Trump’s State Terrorism Against Venezuela Will Endanger American Lives
If the champion of the rules-based international order turns to violence as a first resort, so will other countries
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Steve Chapman
India's Modi Is Even More Barbaric Toward 'Migrants' Than Trump
Prime Minister Modi’s Hindu nationalist regime is using the presence of 'Bangladeshi immigrants' as a pretext to remake the citizenry
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