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the national interest
Aug. 16, 2018
Pretending Single Payer Health Care Is Easy to Pass Doesn’t Make It Easy Bernie Bros need to stop calling Democrats shills and engage with the reason they’re reluctant to impose radical change.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 8, 2018
Do Obamacare’s Left-Wing Critics Actually Understand It? A Jacobin editor defends the Republican Party against the charge of wanting to take poor people’s insurance away.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Sept. 29, 2017
The Berniecrats Have an Obama Problem A small problem for the triumph of the revolution.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Feb. 15, 2017
Remember How Trump Was Going to Erase Obama’s Legacy Overnight? Not So Much. Even a highly competent president would have difficulty unwinding them, and Trump has shown no signs of being even a minimally competent one.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Jan. 9, 2017
Trump Invents New Fallback Lie on Russian Hacking “Okay, maybe the Russians did it, but we know it had no effect.” Uh, no, we don’t.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Apr. 28, 2015
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Mar. 5, 2015
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Feb. 12, 2015
Is Political Correctness Good for the Left? We’re thinking about the wrong class of victims.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Jan. 26, 2015
Repealing Obamacare Would Be Extremely Immoral Your not-very-tricky ethical dilemmas, answered.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Dec. 5, 2014
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Nov. 18, 2014
Conservatives Now Completely Losing It Over Grubergate The MIT economist is sapping our precious bodily fluids.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Nov. 7, 2014
Reading Is Fundamental, Charles C.W. Cooke National Review writes entire column about me based on mistakes.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Oct. 9, 2014
Football and Moral Panic, a Case Study ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL in-depth statistical disputes?
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Sept. 15, 2014
Have Nerds Betrayed the Left? Thomas Frank has identified the enemy of true populism: political science.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 20, 2014
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 13, 2014
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 8, 2014
Is Zionism a Feeling, or an Idea? A response to an inadvertently revealing New York Times op-ed.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 28, 2014
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 10, 2014
7 Ways Paul Ryan Revealed His Love for Ayn Rand Society could never accept their love, but the passion could not be denied …
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
May 23, 2014
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Jan. 15, 2014
Today in ‘Your Conservative Questions Answered Very Easily’ There’s no such thing as innovation in a government-led industry is there? Oh.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Jan. 8, 2014
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Jan. 6, 2014
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Dec. 6, 2013
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Sept. 25, 2013
Subsidizing Farmers But Not the Poor Still Evil Turns out there are arguments for this policy. Just not good or even factually true ones.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 28, 2013
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 2, 2013
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
June 27, 2013
Reading Is Fundamental, Alex Tabarrok A friendly PSA for the libertarian economist community.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
June 20, 2013
Is Rand Paul’s Love of Ayn Rand a ‘Conspiracy’? Turns out libertarians don’t like it when you insult Ayn Rand. Who knew?
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
June 6, 2013
Libertarian Columnist Timothy Carney Is In Way Over His Head “Jonathan Chait keeps being wrong about Obamacare,” says guy who has no idea what he’s talking about.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Dec. 12, 2012
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 27, 2012
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Apr. 30, 2012
Brave Leftie Blogger Exposes My Ryan Suck-Up A spectacular and truly original interpretation.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Mar. 23, 2012
Obama-Boehner Debt Negotiation Furor Continues! Everybody still angry at each other over year-old non-consummated budget deal.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Mar. 12, 2012
Yes, the Republicans Are Pretty Bananas Ross Douthat writes a response, only to say he can’t be bothered.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Mar. 6, 2012
New York Times Symposium Beats Straw Man Mercilessly Who needs their stupid club for jerks, anyway? I’ll start my own symposium right here.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Feb. 10, 2012
I Will Try To Be Nice This Time It’s kind of painful, actually.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Feb. 3, 2012
Inequality Deniers Fudge the Numbers Again Persistence is actually a bad trait when you’re delusional.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Jan. 5, 2012
1964 Not the Only Time Racists Hated Government Are paleolibertarianism and racism incompatible?
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Dec. 22, 2011
Inequality and the Political Choice We Have If you’re not the kind of reader who enjoys long debates between columnists, you should probably stop reading right now.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Nov. 3, 2011
Inequality and Bullshit Pethokoukis’s latest project is to deny — or quasi-deny, or muddy the waters, depending on the day — the fact of rising income inequality.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Oct. 14, 2011
The Evasions of the 53 Percent: This Time It’s Personal Conservatives defend a series of nonsense statistics about taxes and inequality.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Oct. 5, 2011
Lessons on Partisanship for Libertarians If there’s one thing I’ve learned about ‘Reason’ magazine’s writers, it’s that they think I’m “partisan.”
By Jonathan Chait