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The Administration’s Contempt for the Rule of Law Has Roots in the Pre-Civil Rights Era
Defenders of liberal democracy cannot succumb to Donald Trump's attempts to scare them into inaction
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Steve Chapman
3
MAGA Pundits Are Triggered That Superman Is an Immigrant
But he is an embodiment of America’s essential goodness and promise
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Jacob Grier
6
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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Trevor Burrus
2
Trump Is Gutting Every Source of America's Greatness
His attacks on the country's painstakingly built diplomatic, scientific, and human capital will turn it into a second-rate power
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Larry Diamond
14
Ben Franklin Declared His Independence from his Inheritance of Nasty Superstitions and Became an Enlightenment Man
A Fourth of July revisiting of a Founding Father’s family connection to the Salem Witch Trials
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Andy Craig
3
Crypto Is the Perfect Currency for Trump's Corrupt Pay-to-Play Presidency
He is using this digital medium in unprecedented ways to monetize his power and personally enrich himself
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Robert Tracinski
10
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
7
Astonishingly, the DOJ is Suing the Entire Maryland Federal Bench After its Judges Stopped Trump's Lawless Deportations: An Executive Watch…
Our late-June selection of the president's latest and greatest assaults on the rule of law
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Robert Tracinski
6
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
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
9
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
7
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
3
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