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The Trump Regime's Perverse Relationship With MAGA Media: A Video Roundup
Our early-January collection of clips on how the right-wing information ecosystem serves as the president's propaganda arm
 • Landry Ayres
Peter Thiel Looks Everywhere for the Antichrist Except the Mirror
The tech billionaire’s AI technology is ushering in a dystopian Big Government as he races to beat his political opponents to the end times
 • Jacob Bruggeman
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ICE Is Only Getting Started, the Worst Is Yet to Come: A Conversation with David J. Bier
Massive new funding for an agency that respects neither laws nor human life will turbocharge its abuses
 • Shikha Dalmia
Trump Is Ensuring That His Venezuela Attack Has No Upside for Anyone
Venezuelan democracy, America, and the world are all going to lose
 • Nicholas Grossman
MAGA May Have Finally Entered the Death Phase Five Years After the Insurrection
But that doesn’t mean that it can’t take down the country with it
 • Gabriel Schoenfeld
Trump’s Betrayal of Venezuela’s Democracy Movement Is Hard to Overstate
If he continues to snub María Corina Machado, the heroine of the opposition, America will bear responsiblity for the country’s next tragic chapter
 • Larry Diamond
Trump’s Bogus Rationale for Invading Venezuela Is an Impeachable Offense
The Framers would have regarded this president as an out-of-control lunatic in desperate need of reining in by Congress
 • Andy Craig
Trump's War Presidency Attempts Regime Change in Venezuela in Violation of the US Constitution and International Law: An Executive Watch…
Our early-January selection of the president's latest and greatest assaults on the rule of law
 • Executive Watch
Fortunately, Liberals Can More Easily Defeat the Resurging Totalitarian-Isms of Yore
Both extremes are recycling old ideologies, but liberalism has a far stronger hand to counter them before they cause the death and destruction of the…
 • Daniel M. Rothschild
A Banner Year for Domestic and Global Censorship by the US
The Trump administration is using state muscle in unprecedented ways to suppress speech it dislikes
 • Katherine Stewart
Liberals Will Win by Telling True Stories Better Than Demagogues Tell False Stories
Indian American author Suketu Mehta's diagnosis and prescription for saving liberal democracy at LibCon2025
 • Suketu Mehta
The Buzz Out There About The UnPopulist and LibCon
We are proud of our accomplishments and grateful for the love and encouragement from across the political spectrum—but we need your support
 • Berny Belvedere
The UnPopulist Staff's 2025 Holiday Recommendations
We wish you a joyful season and offer our picks for your entertainment and edification
 • Shikha Dalmia, Berny Belvedere, Landry Ayres, Andy Craig, Birch Smith, and Aaron Ross Powell
No Sweetheart, Favoritism Isn't Driving ‘The Great Feminization’, Modernity Is
And it’s a good thing for women and the world, contrary to claims of the neo-right’s new darling
 • Samantha Hancox-Li
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Liberalism & Religion

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A Persecution Complex Links the Pilgrims and Christian Nationalism: A Conversation With Tyler Huckabee
Evangelicals are espousing a faith based on their political project, not a sincere interpretation of the Bible
 • Berny Belvedere
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
 • Michael G. Holzman and Mustafa Akyol
Political Triumphalism Is Contrary to the Spirit of Yom Kippur
The Jewish holiday’s emphasis on repentance requires confronting our past sins, not burying them
 • Michael G. Holzman
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
 • Michael G. Holzman
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
 • Amal Chandra
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A Revival of True Christianity Would Also Revive American Liberal Democracy: A Conversation with Jonathan Rauch
The turn away from Jesus and lust for power is ruining the Protestant faith and the polity
 • Berny Belvedere
We Need to Restore a Healthy Protestantism to Save American Liberalism
An incisive book by an atheist convincingly shows how both major strands of this faith tradition lost their way
 • Berny Belvedere
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
 • Michael G. Holzman

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
 • 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
 • 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
 • 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
 • Trevor Burrus
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…
 • 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
 • 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
 • 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
 • Corbin K. Barthold

World

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Trump Is Ensuring That His Venezuela Attack Has No Upside for Anyone
Venezuelan democracy, America, and the world are all going to lose
 • Nicholas Grossman
Trump’s Betrayal of Venezuela’s Democracy Movement Is Hard to Overstate
If he continues to snub María Corina Machado, the heroine of the opposition, America will bear responsiblity for the country’s next tragic chapter
 • Larry Diamond
Trump’s Bogus Rationale for Invading Venezuela Is an Impeachable Offense
The Framers would have regarded this president as an out-of-control lunatic in desperate need of reining in by Congress
 • Andy Craig
A Banner Year for Domestic and Global Censorship by the US
The Trump administration is using state muscle in unprecedented ways to suppress speech it dislikes
 • Katherine Stewart
Trump and Putin Are Trying to Rescue Hungarian Strongman Orbán from Electoral Defeat
It is unclear if they'll succeed but they show that the world's autocrats are working hard to keep each other in power
 • H. David Baer
Even by a Strict Definition, Elon Musk Is a Fascist
He is weaponizing Tolkien to promote violence by ‘hard men’ against Asian immigrants
 • Toby Buckle
Trump Goes After the BBC for Telling True Lies About His Insurrection
He and the U.K. right are making bad faith attacks on the broadcaster to extract a heavy price for a small editorial error
 • Dalibor Rohac
Defeating Populist Authoritarians Requires Real-Time Pushback on Social Media
But liberals also need to be clear about what they stand for and deliver governing results to voters
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