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Trump And Musk Are Betting On Our Apathy— We’ve Got To Prove Them Wrong Next Year
If Republicans Are Defeated In Wisconsin & Florida April 1, The Ballgame Changes On Friday, Brian Barrett wrote that just a couple...

Howie Klein
Mar 244 min read
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Capitalism in Decay
Whom the gods would destroy, they first give too much money

Thomas Neuburger
Mar 42 min read
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A Failure of 'Mimesis'
What happens when a whole generation rejects their elders?

Thomas Neuburger
Mar 13 min read
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Musk’s Troop Of Sadsack Incels Doesn’t Like Being Referred To As “MuskRats”
On Friday, Tim Carpenter reported that Kansas Senator Jerry Moran (R) did something congressional Republicans are loathe to do: he went...

Howie Klein
Feb 914 min read
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Despite A Lack Of A Mandate From The Voters, Trumpism, Inevitably, Has Arrived Full Force
The Leaderless Democrats Are Running Around Like Chickens Without Heads Monday night, we started reading about how Trump is just...

Howie Klein
Jan 296 min read
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Are You Lonesome Tonight? Most Of The Country Is Too. Japan And The UK Have Loneliness Ministries
The new issue of The Atlantic has an exhaustive killer piece by Derek Thompson about aloneness and loneliness, The Anti-Social Century —...

Howie Klein
Jan 914 min read
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If Biden Wants A 2nd Term, He Can't Let The Race's Trajectory Go The Way Of A Debate Over Protests
Trump— King Of Chaos & Projection— Blames Biden For Campus Chaos The lesser-of-two-evils strategy is immutable; nothing has changed. The...

Howie Klein
Apr 29, 20247 min read
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Congressional Republicans Have Ceded Their Branch To The Trump Campaign
If Trump Wins & The GOP Gets Control Of Congress, Throw Separation Of Powers Out The Window Trump turned the RNC into a branch of his...

Howie Klein
Apr 12, 20246 min read
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Some People Abhor Trump As A Bringer Of Chaos— But So Many Voters Crave Chaos...
It’s Probably Why He’s Thrived In Republican Politics Derek Thompson shared the work of Danish political scientist Michael Bang Petersen...

Howie Klein
Feb 24, 20248 min read
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This Generation's Problem
Will this generation dodge the bill for its climate failure? Or pay for its sins itself?

Thomas Neuburger
Dec 19, 20232 min read
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Why Don't They Just Bring Back McCarthy And Tell Gaetz If He Votes Against Him, He's Dead?
Last night, Jake Sherman, John Bresnahan and Mica Soellner brought everybody up to date on the GOP speaker catastrophe, reporting, for...

Howie Klein
Oct 21, 20235 min read
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Are There 5 Republicans With The Intestinal Fortitude To Save America From A Speaker Gym Jordan?
Is A Bipartisan House A Real Option? Brent Larkin was editorial director of the Cleveland Plain Dealer from 1991 until he retired in...

Howie Klein
Oct 17, 20237 min read
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Of The 55 House Republicans Who Cast Secret Ballots Against Jordan, How Many Can Resist Bullying?
Not Many Gym Jordan had enough votes in a secret ballot meeting of the House GOP conference to win the Republican nomination for the...

Howie Klein
Oct 16, 20234 min read
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The GOP Base Seems To Be Happy With Him But Republican Establishment Knives Are Out For Matt Gaetz
On Tuesday, Luke Broadwater noted that there’s renewed interest in Gaetz’s ethics charges since he ousted Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy has...

Howie Klein
Oct 6, 20237 min read
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Trump And The Rise Of Political Violence In America-- He And His Cronies Must Be Held To Account
Why Isn't Bannon In Prison Yet? Yesterday, Mehdi Hassan tweeted “Among the many crazy and offensive Trump statements in recent days, he...

Howie Klein
Oct 5, 20235 min read
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Why Can't The Mainstream Conservatives Grow A Pair? What Are They So Scared Of All The Time?
Swing district Republicans are definitely panic-stricken. Voters are not happy with the dysfunction and the impending all-GOP government...

Howie Klein
Sep 22, 20236 min read
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The House Republicans Are Not Reading The Room Right-- Unless They WANT To Commit Political Suicide
The very right wing Wall Street Journal editorial board had a warning for their party yesterday: shutting down the government to make...

Howie Klein
Sep 21, 20239 min read
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What Does A Blue Wave Look Like When It’s Forming Up Over A Year Before The General?
Big Wins In Pennsylvania And New Hampshire Yesterday There were two consequential special elections yesterday. We wrote about the one in...

Howie Klein
Sep 20, 20233 min read
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Republican Civil War: Shutting Down The Government So Trump Campaign Can Scream "Chaos! Chaos!"
Texas isn’t the only place the Republicans are in the middle of a brutal civil war— generally mainstream conservatives vs the MAGA cult...

Howie Klein
Sep 18, 20238 min read
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What's In the Pipeline
James Hansen's new paper should concern us all. Too bad it won't concern those with actual power.

Thomas Neuburger
May 24, 20237 min read
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