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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
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Berny Belvedere
9
The Apostles of Strongman Politics Will Usher In a New Tyranny
Ordered, constitutional governance is the only guarantee of individual life, liberty, and property
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Tom G. Palmer
21
Trump Is Going After Big Law to Make it Difficult for His Political Targets to Get Effective Representation
Undermining the independence of the legal profession to remove an impediment for exacting revenge is a standard authoritarian tactic
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Walter Olson
56
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
10
Musk’s Toxic Brand of Politics Has Hit a Wall in the U.K.
He is using legitimate public anger over the government’s handling of a past grooming scandal for illegitimate extremist ends
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Steve Davies
12
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The War on the Woke Trumps the Truth for Many Heterodox Thinkers
 • Radley Balko
105
Trump's America Is in a Free Fall—Not a Slippery Slope—to Tyranny
 • Larry Diamond
28
Elon Musk Has Appointed Himself Dictator of America
 • Andy Craig
82
How Silicon Valley’s Corrupted Libertarianism Is Dismantling American Democracy
 • Mike Brock
63
Trump Is Turning America Into its Opposite and a Threat to the World
A French politician issues a stark warning
26
Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign Is Draconian and Lawless
Its breathtaking scope goes far beyond targeting criminal aliens and seeks to instill fear among all immigrants
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Steve Chapman
21
Executive Watch
Tracking presidential abuses of power
Ukraine Is Being Punished Because Zelenskyy Did Not Buy Trump's Superpowers
The White House wanted the Ukrainian president to sell out his country to appease Putin
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Shikha Dalmia
15
How Silicon Valley’s Corrupted Libertarianism Is Dismantling American Democracy
Donald Trump is a vehicle for Musk and Thiel to implement their radical ideas of replacing accountable governance with an unaccountable techno-monarchy
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Mike Brock
63
The UnPopulist Launches Executive Watch
Our new tool will track the abuses of presidential powers in real time
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Robert Tracinski
4
Germany's Extremism Problem Requires an Economic Cure
The centrist Christian Democrats' slim election victory won't hold the illiberal right or left at bay if the party doesn't restore growth and dynamism
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Larry Diamond
3
Rewarding Putin's Aggression Would Consign the World to Chronic Warfare
A 'peace' deal without Ukraine or Europe at the table will not stick
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Nataliya Melnyk
9
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How the Right Uses Social Media to Create a Powerful Propaganda Machine: A Conversation with Renée DiResta
Countering its messaging will require opponents to learn from its strategies while restoring truth-telling and decency
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Aaron Ross Powell
10
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Your Comprehensive Guide to the Far Right: Part II
How a movement that poses the single biggest threat to open, liberal societies took control of the discourse and politics in America and abroad
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Janet Bufton
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Tom G. Palmer
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Trump's America Is in a Free Fall—Not a Slippery Slope—to Tyranny
He is instilling fear not just among lawmakers but every sector of society that dares to criticize him or hold him accountable
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Larry Diamond
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Europe Needs to Rise Swiftly to Counter Trump's Predatory Imperialism
A new geopolitical alliance is taking shape in which America is leading an exploitative and authoritarian axis
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Robert Tracinski
12
Trump Is Not Taking the State Out of Public Schools, He Is Putting Christianity In
MAGA doesn’t need the Department of Education to advance its religious makeover of K-12
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Anne Lutz Fernandez
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Trump’s Mass Firing of Inspectors General Bulldozed the Way for Elon Musk’s Unaccountable Shadow Government
A functional Congress would have impeached the president for deliberately flouting the law
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Paul Matzko
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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
40
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
38
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
11
Liberalism and Catholicism: Friends Not Foes
Both traditions are rooted in a belief in universal human dignity
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James M. Patterson
10
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
9
Liberal Individualism Has Deep Roots in Protestantism
Illiberalism cannot be reconciled with the core tenets of the faith
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Rachel Ferguson
3
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
1

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
12
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
2
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
13
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
9
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
4
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
38
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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ISMA Conference

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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
3
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
2
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
8
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
2
Is There Anything New in the New-Right's Critiques of Liberalism?
Yes and No
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World

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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
 • 
Emily Tamkin
10
Musk’s Toxic Brand of Politics Has Hit a Wall in the U.K.
He is using legitimate public anger over the government’s handling of a past grooming scandal for illegitimate extremist ends
 • 
Steve Davies
12
Trump Is Turning America Into its Opposite and a Threat to the World
A French politician issues a stark warning
26
Ukraine Is Being Punished Because Zelenskyy Did Not Buy Trump's Superpowers
The White House wanted the Ukrainian president to sell out his country to appease Putin
 • 
Shikha Dalmia
15
Germany's Extremism Problem Requires an Economic Cure
The centrist Christian Democrats' slim election victory won't hold the illiberal right or left at bay if the party doesn't restore growth and dynamism
 • 
Larry Diamond
3
Rewarding Putin's Aggression Would Consign the World to Chronic Warfare
A 'peace' deal without Ukraine or Europe at the table will not stick
 • 
Nataliya Melnyk
9
Your Comprehensive Guide to the Far Right: Part II
How a movement that poses the single biggest threat to open, liberal societies took control of the discourse and politics in America and abroad
 • 
Janet Bufton
 and 
Tom G. Palmer
11
Europe Needs to Rise Swiftly to Counter Trump's Predatory Imperialism
A new geopolitical alliance is taking shape in which America is leading an exploitative and authoritarian axis
 • 
Robert Tracinski
12
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