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Democrats are on an election win streak despite having a badly damaged brand, what’s going on?
David Atkins on the contradictory signals Americans are sending about Democrats and Donald Trump
Mar 16
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Matthew Sheffield
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The women of QAnon
Author Noelle Cook on her book, The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging
Mar 14
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Matthew Sheffield
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1:10:48
Trump’s Iran attack is the most unpopular foreign intervention since polling began
Historically, most Americans were willing to let presidents make war on other countries; not anymore
Mar 11
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The liberal legal establishment deluded itself that judging was apolitical, America is stuck with the consequences
A conversation with The Nation’s Elie Mystal on how legal formalism stopped the left from restraining judicial power
Mar 10
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Matthew Sheffield
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Assenting to Trump's insane Iran war would mean accepting a broken and malevolent vision of America
Democrats who are considering funding the illegal attack on Iran risk tossing the opposition into a moral abyss, while betraying the American people in…
Mar 9
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Jim Carroll
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Why the sex and drugs counterculture fell in love with Donald Trump and Jesus
Philosopher and podcaster Aaron Rabinowitz discusses ‘high weirdness’ and why so many hippies were always on the political right and didn’t realize it
Mar 6
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Matthew Sheffield
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It wasn’t that long ago when the U.S. Congress asserted its rightful authority over foreign wars
After the Vietnam War, Congress understood the dangers of a president making war without authorization
Mar 5
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How you think about minds influences how you view the world
Philosopher and geneticist Johannes Yaeger on how digital computing metaphors cannot capture what biological minds are
Mar 3
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Matthew Sheffield
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Plunging U.S. into illegal war with Iran, Donald Trump reminds us he's the true menace to our country
In his half-hearted attempts to sell war with Iran, Trump sticks to a stale authoritarian script: we are beset by evil enemies that he alone can…
Mar 2
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Jim Carroll
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February 2026
The Hegsethian jihad against Anthropic
Did OpenAI cast aside safety concerns about fully automated weapon systems?
Feb 28
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Matthew Sheffield
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Epstein files show a financier obsessed with excluding women from science and tech
Thousands of released documents show how infamous sex criminal used his riches to fund misogyny and suppress female researchers
Feb 26
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Big tech billionaires are trying to make dystopian science fiction into reality
The Nation’s Jeet Heer on how Thiel, Musk, and Bezos are animated by Heinlein, Rand, and Campbell
Feb 24
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Matthew Sheffield
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