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Michael Tomasky
Democrats: Send in the Shadow Cabinet!
To fight Trump, the party needs unconventional thinking and a more aggressive footing in the information wars. Our friends across the pond have a good idea that they can steal.
March 24, 2025
March 22, 2025
Jason Linkins
The Media Is Responding to Trump With a Huge Face-Plant
The press’s pathological need to normalize autocratic misrule is paving the road to ruin.
March 15, 2025
Jason Linkins
The Big Lesson From Bernie Sanders’s Gangbusters Anti-Oligarchy Tour
The thousands of victims of Trumpism are out there. Democrats just need to find them—and be their champion.
March 14, 2025
The New Republic Staff
In Honor of Kevin Drum: TNR Friday Cat Blogging
The pioneering liberal blogger was widely known for celebrating his cats every Friday. Today, in his honor, we do the same.
March 12, 2025
Alex Shephard
First, Trump Came for Mahmoud Khalil. Are You Next?
The president has made it abundantly clear that Mahmoud Khalil’s detention is just a prelude to a much broader crackdown on free speech in America.
March 11, 2025
Norman J. Ornstein
This Is No Time for the Democrats to Hang Back
Some counsel the Democrats to just wait and let the GOP immolate itself. This is horrible advice. Here are some better ideas.
March 10, 2025
Michael Tomasky
Democrats Are Failing to Deliver a Key Ingredient of Effective Protest
Humor and mockery can play important roles in political protest. What happened to the Democrats' funny gene?
March 7, 2025
Michael Tomasky
Donald Trump Just Proved He’s an Economic Idiot. Again.
His MAGA sycophants knew all along that his central economic proposal was a sham, but they repeated his lies. And now the economy is cracking.
March 6, 2025
Daoud Kuttab
I Worked on the “Arab Sesame Street.” It Was Not a Waste of Money.
Donald Trump is just playing on anti-Palestinian prejudice. “Shara’a Simsim” did a lot of good—until a GOP congresswoman cut the funding.
March 6, 2025
Kate Woodsome
Jeff Bezos Has a Very Billionaire-ish Idea of What Freedom Means
We need media that advocate for well-being, not gaslight people into believing their suffering is liberty.
March 4, 2025
Katherine Stewart
Beware Trump’s Talk of Coming “Emergencies”
Far-right rhetoric is suffused with dark talk of impending calamities. It’s a favorite trope of autocrats who are, themselves, the calamity.
February 28, 2025
Siva Vaidhyanathan
Dear Mr. Bezos: These Columns Are All About Liberties and Markets!
I have taken the liberty of crafting two pieces for the new Washington Post op-ed page that defend personal liberties and free markets. And here they are.
February 26, 2025
Harry Litman
Trump vs. the Media: He Won Round One, but He’s Going to Lose Bigly
A judge kinda-sorta found for the White House against the Associated Press. But Trumpworld is pushing things way too far.
February 24, 2025
Susan Milligan
The “Daddy” Party Is Scaring the Hell Out of the Family
Republicans portray Trump as the nation’s “daddy,” a disciplinarian father who’s going to get America’s house in order. The analogy is more revealing than they realize.
February 21, 2025
Ross Rosenfeld
Trump and Musk Keep Spouting Bogus Numbers to Hide Their Real Agenda
Their phony “statistics” aren’t just an attempt to justify DOGE’s destruction of the government. Trump and Musk’s goal is even more duplicitous and shady.
February 18, 2025
Michael Tomasky
JD Vance’s Debacle in Germany Exposes MAGA’s Sinister Global Endgame
Did you know that the United States is joining an international fascist network?
February 10, 2025
Michael Tomasky
Democrats: This Is War. Isn’t It Time You Acted Like It?
Trump is counting on his opposition’s deeply ingrained fear of being divisive to give him the room to break the country. So far he’s getting what he wants.
February 5, 2025
Thom Hartmann
The Oligarchs Want Their Throne Back—but They Can Be Stopped
Trump, Musk, and their billionaire and theocratic allies are following the example of tyrants everywhere. But it’s worth remembering they haven’t all succeeded.
February 1, 2025
Jason Linkins
Trump’s Abuse of Power Comes as No Surprise
Somehow, Democrats got badly caught out by the president doing all the things he spent the past two years saying he was going to do if reelected.
February 1, 2025
Eric Reinhart
The RFK Jr. Op-Ed the Los Angeles Times Didn’t Want You to Read
Eric Reinhart submitted a column critical of RFK Jr. to the troubled newspaper. What they printed under his byline bore little resemblance to what he submitted.

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