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August 2025

At televised cabinet meeting turned Trumpian lovefest, department heads cry the praises of dear leader
No honest American can watch grown men and women publicly humiliate themselves in front of Trump without realizing that something has gone terribly…
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Jim Carroll
Beyond illicit intimidation, the specter of violence against citizens haunts Trump's troop deployments
Opponents of Trump should ready strategies in anticipation of the president's instigation of violence in D.C. and other American cities, all squarely…
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Jim Carroll
Americans want big ideas, but Trump’s opponents aren’t providing them
Seth Flaxman on why neither Democrats nor the broader center-to-left have been willing to make a case to the public
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Matthew Sheffield
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Seth Flaxman
1:07:42
Trump's D.C. clampdown is an affront to America, and Democrats should act like it
The president's illicit deployment of troops to the nation's capital on false pretenses advances an authoritarian agenda that his opponents should…
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Jim Carroll
Leaning hard into lawless rule, Donald Trump leaves legitimacy behind
As his sinking poll numbers undermine the idea that he represents some mythical popular will, opponents have fresh opportunities to discredit his open…
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Jim Carroll
ChatGPT-5 and the end of naive AI futurism
Turns out, scale is not all you need
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Dave Karpf
As science faces external attacks, it needs to look within to defend and reform
Rather than just defending the status quo, scientists should use data to understand and fix their own institutional problems
Sending in troops against made-up mayhem, Trump plays little dictator in D.C.
Four and a half years after his attempted coup, the president is sending in the military to secure the city against criminals — excluding himself, of…
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Jim Carroll
Terrified Trump is slinging ‘zombie food’ to distract his base from Jeffrey Epstein
Renée DiResta on the White House’s attempt to rewrite the history of Russia’s 2016 hacking and influence campaign
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Matthew Sheffield
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Renee DiResta
1:24:12
Sydney Sweeney and ‘Phantom Lib Syndrome’
Noah Berlatsky on the right wing’s need to invent liberals to argue against
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Matthew Sheffield
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Noah Berlatsky
1:15:23
Trump’s war on statisticians and the ‘liberal bias’ of reality
A live video with Brad DeLong on the roots of the Trump administration’s rage against the sciences
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Matthew Sheffield
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Brad DeLong
1:32:02
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