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conservatism
Oct. 25, 2023
The Most Incoherent Conservative Take on Israel Yet Hamas’s attack proved conservatives are right about everything, a conservative explains.
By Eric Levitz
conservatism
Oct. 6, 2023
Don’t Celebrate When People You Disagree With Get Murdered The right’s morally obscene and intellectually bankrupt response to the recent killings of two leftists.
By Eric Levitz
conservatism
Sept. 29, 2023
Scott, Haley, and the Radicalization of the ‘Moderate’ Republican The South Carolina politicians combine the plutocratic priorities of Paul Ryan with the lunatic jingoism of Donald Trump.
By Eric Levitz
conservatism
Sept. 21, 2023
By Eric Levitz
The Nerd Trying to Turn the GOP Populist Oren Cass’s quest to make Republicans heed the interests of their working-class base.
By Eric Levitz
u.s. history
Aug. 31, 2023
Was American Slavery Uniquely Evil? We don’t need to minimize the barbarity of premodern forms of slavery to advance racial justice in America.
By Eric Levitz
2022 elections
Aug. 22, 2023
For Republicans, Abetting Coups Is a Good Career Move House Republicans who aided Donald Trump’s efforts on January 6 are more likely to win reelection.
By Eric Levitz
conservatism
Aug. 17, 2023
Oliver Anthony and the Incoherence of Right-Wing Populism When working people direct their class resentments at “the obese milkin’ welfare,” rich men north (and south) of Richmond make out like bandits.
By Eric Levitz
trump indicment
Aug. 3, 2023
Conservatives: Punishing Coup Leaders Is Authoritarian Does holding a presidential candidate accountable for trying to end American democracy imperil American democracy?
By Eric Levitz
early and often
July 7, 2023
‘Anarcho-Tyranny’ Is Just a Rationalization for Right-Wing Lawlessness A theory gaining ground on the right attempts to reconcile MAGA Republicans’ hostility to “deep state” elites with demands for “law and order.”
By Ed Kilgore
Millennials Will Not Age Into Voting Like Boomers Older millennials are getting more conservative as they age, but the generation’s politics are still distinctly left-wing.
By Eric Levitz
the debt ceiling
May 17, 2023
The GOP’s Work-Requirement Scam The policy’s true purpose is to deny aid to hardworking Americans. And Joe Biden appears to be playing along.
By Eric Levitz
early and often
Apr. 24, 2023
By Eric Levitz
Children Are Not Property The idea that underlies the right-wing campaign for “parents’ rights.”
By Sarah Jones
early and often
Feb. 26, 2023
The GOP’s Addiction to Culture War May Cost It in 2024 The habitual Fox News viewer is worried about “wokeness.” The median voter? Not so much.
By Eric Levitz
early and often
Feb. 8, 2023
The GOP’s Heckles Were a Gift to Biden’s Reelection Campaign Republicans aired a primetime advertisement for their own extremity.
By Eric Levitz
artificial intelligence
Feb. 8, 2023
Fear Not, Conservatives, the Chatbot Won’t Turn Your Kid Woke The American right’s problem isn’t that a talking robot is propagating liberal ideology.
By Eric Levitz
early and often
Feb. 2, 2023
By Eric Levitz
the big picture
Feb. 1, 2023
The End of ‘Zombie Neoliberalism’? There is burgeoning, bipartisan support for big government.
By Eric Levitz
early and often
Jan. 16, 2023
The GOP Is More Dependent Than Ever on Democratic Dysfunction As the Republican base has grown more blue-collar, the party’s agenda has remained plutocratic.
By Eric Levitz
early and often
Jan. 11, 2023
Conservatives Clarify That They’re Pro-Boss, Not Pro-Market The right’s revealing opposition to ending noncompete agreements.
By Eric Levitz
house arrest
Jan. 6, 2023
This Is Not What Democracy Looks Like Contrary to the claims of conservative pundits, the GOP’s mutiny against McCarthy is not a sign of the party’s democratic vitality.
By Eric Levitz
Elon Musk’s Politics Are About As Complicated As Trump’s Both Musk and Trump sought subsidies from the Democrats, and then adoration from consumers of conservative media.
By Eric Levitz
The ‘Twitter Files’ Is What It Claims to Expose The purported exposé of Twitter’s political bias is itself an attempt to weaponize control of Twitter for political purposes.
By Eric Levitz
conservatism
Dec. 6, 2022
Why the GOP Will Lose Its War on ‘Woke Wall Street’ Republicans can’t accept that they dislike modern capitalism, so they’re blaming “ESG” instead.
By Eric Levitz
How to Make a Semi-Fascist Party The hostile, paranoid, and increasingly authoritarian path ahead for American conservatism.
By Jonathan Chait
Compact Magazine Makes a Strong Case for Liberalism With enemies like this, liberalism needs no flatterers.
By Eric Levitz
‘Pro-Worker Conservatives’ Are Just Union Busters in Disguise In Marco Rubio’s new plan, the GOP’s overtures to the working class have reached their logical end.
By Eric Levitz
conservatism
Feb. 3, 2022
By Eric Levitz
Partisanship Made the Omicron Crisis Worse Could America have averted a huge wave of COVID deaths?
By Eric Levitz
conservatism
Dec. 30, 2021
Why The View Is Struggling to Find a New Token Conservative The show wants a Republican cohost who represents the views of the GOP base and is not an illiberal conspiracist. Does such a person exist?
By Eric Levitz
supreme court
Dec. 27, 2021
Why Is John Roberts So Popular Among Democrats? The chief justice’s enduring appeal suggests the Supreme Court may be able to gut Roe without great cost to its reputation.
By Eric Levitz
The Authoritarian Right’s 1877 Project As the GOP undermines Black political rights in the present, some right-wing intellectuals are rationalizing Black disenfranchisement in the past.
By Eric Levitz
the republican party
Nov. 30, 2021
Only Republicans Can Stop the Republicans Now The biggest obstacle to the GOP’s political dominance is now the party’s own dearth of ideological discipline.
By Eric Levitz
the republican party
Nov. 24, 2021
Is the GOP’s Policy Agenda Hidden or Nonexistent? For a party that may soon have full control of government, its ambitions remain remarkably unclear.
By Eric Levitz
critical race theory
Nov. 8, 2021
When Keeping It ‘Woke’ Gets Racist, Liberals Should Say So Some of the things that conservatives have dubbed “critical race theory” aren’t worth defending.
By Eric Levitz
The GOP Got Away With All of It Glenn Youngkin’s win in Virginia suggests that Republicans will pay no sustained price for abetting Trump’s assault on democracy.
By Eric Levitz
conservatism
Sept. 3, 2021
The Time for Democrats to Go Nuclear Was Yesterday If conservatives can subvert the Constitution to gut abortion rights, moderate Democrats can abolish the filibuster to protect them.
By Eric Levitz
conservatism
Aug. 20, 2021
Afghan Refugee Crisis Will Test the Strength of GOP Nativism While some Republicans slam Biden for betraying Afghans, Trumpists are already mulling anti-refugee primary campaigns in 2022.
By Eric Levitz
conservatism
July 16, 2021
‘Buying Votes’ Is Good, Actually The right’s new attack on Biden’s child allowance reveals its contempt for democracy.
By Eric Levitz
How the GOP’s Long War on the IRS Threatens the Infrastructure Deal The bipartisan deal is financed by ramped-up tax enforcement. But for decades, Republicans have been devoted to defunding and demonizing the IRS.
By Eric Levitz
White Evangelicals Now Outnumbered by Mainline Protestants in U.S. Conservative Evangelical triumphalism in religion, culture, and politics is no longer justified by the trends in American life.
By Ed Kilgore
conservatism
July 7, 2021
Tucker Carlson’s Populism Is for the Small-Time Rich The Fox News host’s claims that Joe Biden will destroy the suburbs reveal the true nature of working-class conservatism.
By Eric Levitz
conservatism
July 6, 2021
It’s Tough to Prove You’re a ‘True Conservative’ in the Trump Era Many of the old principles of hard-core conservatism are still obligatory for Republicans. And now they have to demonstrate loyalty to Trump, too.
By Ed Kilgore
the economy
June 20, 2021
A World of High Wages and Cheap Burrito Bowls Is Possible Why better pay for some doesn’t necessarily mean more expensive goods for others.
By Eric Levitz
The Delusions of the Radical Centrist Why Michael Lind’s iconoclastic brand of populist politics fails to convince.
By Eric Levitz
conservatism
June 2, 2021
By Eric Levitz
conservatism
May 24, 2021
Law-and-Order Conservatives Call on Biden to Defund the Tax Police The “populist” right is mobilizing against Joe Biden’s plot to prevent the superrich from shirking their tax obligations.
By Eric Levitz
conservatism
Apr. 30, 2021
Why the GOP Is Ideologically Lost Conservatives can’t reconcile their dual commitments to liberal capitalism and moral traditionalism.
By Eric Levitz
conservatism
Apr. 22, 2021
GOP Stands Up to ‘Cancel Culture’ by Criminalizing Dissent Republicans believe that corporations opposing conservative causes undermines civil liberties, but governments criminalizing protest does not.
By Eric Levitz
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