Jonathan Chait

Trump’s Desperate Move to Quiet the Epstein Scandal The president tries to distract his followers with revisionist history about the Russia investigation.

The Trump administration’s claim of an Obama–era plot to make up that Russia had intervened in the 2016 election was “its latest and most comically desperate attempt to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal,” Jonathan Chait argues.

They Didn’t Have to Do This By passing Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, congressional Republicans have talked themselves into an incomprehensibly reckless plan.

Congressional Republicans have talked themselves into a plan so incomprehensibly reckless that to describe it is to question its authors’ sanity."

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He was asked a question about it! I quoted his answer!

"If either party to this internal debate should be apologizing, it’s not the liberals who presciently warned that the left risked going off the rails and enabling Trump to win."

Are Liberals to Blame for the New McCarthyism? Many leftists seem to think so.

Did free-speech liberals lay the groundwork for Trump? An old anti-anti-communist belief resurfaces. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Coming Democratic Civil War A seemingly wonky debate about the “abundance agenda” is really about power.

The Abundance Agenda is an attempt to restore the New Deal era of confidence, effective government. Why do so many progressives oppose it? There's a reason. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

A Swing-state Senator who broke with the national party on an issue of local significance. Smart choice!

Look who this "Abundance" review cites for the claim that the regulatory process isn't standing in the way of American nuclear.

The Talented Mr. Vance J. D. Vance could have brought the country’s conflicting strands together. Instead, he took a divisive path to the peak of power.

"But the political winds had turned, and now he massaged his public remarks about Trump into vague approval while keeping his criticism private. Vance was getting ready to enter politics." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Trump’s Immoral World Order This week’s Gulf tour revealed that his transactional foreign policy doesn’t lack values. It just has really bad ones.

"Rather than following a foreign policy that ignores values altogether, Trump has a clear preference for values that are, in the US context, historically anomalous or—to put it in less neutral terms—bad. And he wishes to spread those values around the world."
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I’m reliably told this is cutting edge research with lots of commercial and defense applications that no one in their right mind would shutter.

The MAGA-World Rift Over Trump’s Qatari Jet Some of the president’s biggest allies are panning his plan to accept the luxury aircraft.

The entire Republican Party is committed to throwing poor people off their health insurance and pretending they're not www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...