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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
Lawless to the Max(well)
As Trump contemplates a pardon for a convicted sex trafficker implicated in the abuse of hundreds of girls and women, his corruption and immorality are…
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Jim Carroll
In an age of fictionalized reality, we need literary criticism more than ever
Author and critic Virginia Heffernan on how hermeneutics took over everything
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Matthew Sheffield
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Virginia Heffernan
1:10:36

July 2025

Project 2025 leader urges state Republicans to seize control of blue cities like Austin and Nashville
In address to ALEC conference, Heritage Foundation makes a mockery of right-wing pretenses of favoring local governance
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Peter Montgomery
Government support for religion doesn’t make citizens more religious
As right-wing policymakers force religion into public spaces, evidence shows it makes people less interested in faith
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Pseudo-populism meets fantasy in Trump administration’s efforts to re-write U.S. history
Ham-handed efforts to package blatant whitewashing as the triumph of democracy betray their authoritarian motives
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Jim Carroll
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