The Courts Made Their Bed
The judiciary spent decades greasing the skids for fascism, and now they’re shocked to find themselves beneath the wheels.
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The Parchment Barrier
No constitutional engineering can save democracy from citizens who've stopped caring about its preservation.
This Is the Dumbest Time to Buy Into MAGA
Centrist Democrats are scrambling to appease a right wing movement that will never accept them and has nowhere to go but down.
The Pundit Class Played Devil’s Advocate. Now the Devil’s at the Door.
Pop intellectuals flirted with reaction, thinking history was on their side—now the backlash they fueled is here, and there's no escape.
Donald Trump Is In Over His Head
Trump's delusional pursuit of economic nostalgia is wrecking the economy and hurting the very people he claims to support.
First They Came for the Student Activists
Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest escalates state repression, signaling that under Donald Trump, dissent will be criminalized.
Can the Military Save America From Trump?
Trump’s second presidency is a deliberate, systematic dismantling of American power and democracy—but a military coup won’t save it.