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The Supreme Court's Ban on Universal Injunctions Will Kneecap Americans Fighting for their Rights
The conservative justices have issued a sweeping and ideological ruling that'll allow the president and government at all levels to get away with…
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Anthony Sanders
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Astonishingly, the DOJ Is Suing Every Maryland Judge Who Ruled Against His Lawless Deportations: An Executive Watch Roundup
Our late-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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Free Trade Is Flourishing, Just Not in America
The aggressive protectionism of Trump 2.0 will make the country poorer, more corrupt, and globally isolated, warns trade policy expert Scott Lincicome
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Shikha Dalmia
The Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism Hosts its Second Annual 'Liberalism for the 21st Century' Conference
The UnPopulist's publisher will build on last year's highly successful event and bring together intellectuals and advocates fighting authoritarianism…
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Shikha Dalmia
Iran’s Islamic Regime Is a Menace to Its Own People
But Iranians themselves need to change it, not outside powers
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Mohamad Machine-Chian
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Trump's Iran Strike Shows the Urgent Need for Congress to Claw Back its War Powers
The president's unprovoked, unilateral attack builds on the terrible and unconstitutional precedent set by his predecessors
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Ben Raderstorf
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Musk Might be the First Domino to Fall in Trump’s Unwieldy MAGA Coalition
Now that Trump has to govern, his massive political vulnerabilities are becoming apparent
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Berny Belvedere
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Three Postliberal Paths to Autocracy: A Video Roundup
Our late-June collection of clips on where tech monarchists, NatCons, and Catholic integralists want to take America
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Landry Ayres
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Abraham Lincoln Wasn't Born an Abolitionist, He Became One
We live in polarized times when freedom is threatened but this Juneteenth we should remind ourselves that we have overcome far worse
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Manisha Sinha
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Free Trade Has Stronger Intellectual Roots in the Left than the Right
Before the Cold War, free market liberals and Marxists both saw commerce as a force for global peace and equitable prosperity, a historian shows
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Matthew McManus
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Trump Commandeers the National Guard to Militarize the Immigration Police State: An Executive Watch Roundup
Our mid-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 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
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