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The National Interest

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    5 Theories on What Kyrsten Sinema WantsIs she just the Glenn Greenwald of senators?
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Republicans Are Rehabilitating the Participants in Trump’s Attempted CoupThe campaign to defend John Eastman.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Marco Rubio Doesn’t Know What a ‘Socialist’ Is, But He Knows Biden Is One.The Florida Republican gives a master class in political philosophy.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Anybody Fighting Joe Biden Now Is Helping Trump’s Next CoupAll Republican politics is now functionally authoritarian.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Centrist Democrats Need to Suck It Up and NegotiateDon’t get angry at liberals for stealing your signature move.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    John Durham’s Attempt to Discredit Trump’s Russiagate Enemies Is Falling ApartThe prosecutor omitted key evidence from his indictment.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Joe Manchin Just Might Finally Be Onto SomethingGlimmers of hope in his quasi-plan.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    If You Think Progressives Won’t Compromise With Centrists, You Have It BackwardsTaking a “centrist” stance doesn’t always mean you’re reasonable.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Tim Scott Turns Against His Own Police-Reform PlanRepublican senator once supported tying grants to reform; now he calls it “defunding the police.”
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Conservatives Are Having Another Nervous Breakdown Over ‘Socialism’Joe Biden is still a capitalist.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Trump Lawsuit Says He’s Too Addicted to Twitter to Make Rational DecisionsThis is in a lawsuit to get Trump back on Twitter.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Tucker Carlson Blows Up Murdoch’s White Supremacy Denial on AirSo much for “White replacement theory? No, no.”
    By Jonathan Chait
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    What Jonathan Franzen and the Left Get Wrong About Free SpeechWait for an emergency to break ranks with your allies, and eventually it will be too late.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    The Horrifying Legal Blueprint for Trump’s War on DemocracyThe Eastman memo is a new high-water mark in Republican authoritarianism.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Kyrsten Sinema Threatens to Kill Her Own Infrastructure BillDemocrats in Congress are melting down.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Centrist Democrats Won’t Even Let Biden Crack Down on Tax CheatsThe Democratic agenda is getting eaten alive by lobbyists.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    No, the Richest One Percent Don’t Pay 40 Percent of the Taxes.A misleading conservative talking point that refuses to die.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    What If We Had a Class War and Nobody Noticed?Biden’s Washington is a huge fight over whether trillions go to the rich or the working class.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    DeSantis and the Agony of the Anti-Anti-Anti-Vaxx RepublicanThe GOP-elite darling tries to walk a careful line, and falls off.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    9/11 Made the Media Whitewash What Really Happened in Bush v. GoreThe recount was published during the post-9/11 frenzy, and the myth endured.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    The Wealth Lobby Is Buying Up Democrats to Defeat Biden’s Tax Reform“One of the biggest scams in the history of forever.”
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Texas Abortion Law Turns ‘Principled’ Conservative Legalism Into a JokeRemember National Review’s freakout over Biden’s eviction moratorium?
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Joe Manchin Has Put Biden’s Presidency in Mortal DangerManchin calls for a “pause” when Democrats need to move fast.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Sweetgreen’s CEO Thinks Salads Work Better Than VaccinesElite health fetish as denial of social responsibility.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Kevin McCarthy Threatens Revenge on Firms Cooperating With January 6 ProbeA signature form of Trumpian thuggery returns.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Republican Vaccine Denial Is Not a Political StrategyNever attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Wealthy Lobbyists Have Already Slashed Biden’s Tax Reform by Three-QuartersModerate Democrats have quietly knifed the president’s legacy bill.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    How Vaccine Mandates Can Promote Police ReformCops want to quit rather than get jabbed? Great!
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Why the Media Is Worse for Biden Than TrumpThe last week has been more brutal for Biden than any week of Trump’s presidency.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Gottheimer’s Suicide Squad Hurt Their Party But Gained NothingDemocrats have five weeks to get their act together.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    The House Suicide Squad’s Nonsensical Reasons to Kill Biden’s AgendaJosh Gottheimer claims the bridges can’t wait a few weeks to be fixed.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    A New Variant of COVID Denialism Has EmergedThe Republicans’ pathogenic party line.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    9 Moderate Democrats Threaten to Tank Entire Biden PresidencyDemocrats have stuck together, until now.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Ben Shapiro’s Book Is a Glib Rationale for Right-Wing AuthoritarianismThe “authoritarian moment” isn’t the president who tried to cancel the election?
    By Jonathan Chait
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    House Progressives Should Help Biden by Ransoming the Infrastructure BillIt’s AOC’s time to shine.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Carlson Tells Orbán the Only Threat to Hungarian Democracy Is BidenTucker’s authoritarian dream future, on display in Hungary.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Why Mitch McConnell Is Giving Joe Biden a Bipartisan Infrastructure WinI thought Republicans would kill it. Here’s what I got wrong.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Tucker Carlson Has Seen the Future, and It Is FascistAn important marker on the Republican road to authoritarianism.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    The Madness of Teachers Unions Opposing a Vaccine Mandate“Vaccinations must be negotiated between employers and workers, not coerced.” What?
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Imagine a 9/11 Commission If the Hijackers Had Allies in CongressThe whole premise of an investigation was that both parties opposed the insurrection.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Leftists and Liberals Are Still Fighting Over the Cold WarCommunism has become a proxy for left-wing authoritarianism.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Tom Brady Joins Biden to Laugh at Trump in Worst Day of Trump’s LifeIt’s the sum of all Trump fears.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Biden’s FDR-size BetThe president is rallying Democrats behind a sweeping $3.5 trillion budget package. It could be the key to winning 2024.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Trump Berates Former General for Being Bad at Military Coups“If I was going to do a coup, one of the last people I would want to do it with is General Mark Milley.”
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Even Steve Mnuchin Refuses to Admit Biden Won the ElectionWhat it tells us when the most respectable Trumpist won’t refute the big lie.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Trump Economist Steve Moore Hired to Ruin Yet Another State“I have the best senior economic adviser on the planet in Stephen Moore working with me,” boasts Virginia governor candidate Glenn Youngkin.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Virginia GOP Demands Investigation of Professor for Anti-Trump TweetsRepublican Party still unclear on the concept of free speech.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Conservatives Still Using the Fake Obama IRS Scandal to Defund the Tax PoliceAn imaginary 2013 IRS scandal returns to justify protecting wealthy tax cheats.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    The Chilling Message of Trump’s Embrace of Ashli Babbitt MartyrdomJanuary 6 is now a heroic uprising to the movement.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Should Discrimination Against Trump Supporters Be Illegal?A conservative professor says yes.
    By Jonathan Chait
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