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Memes are legal again

2016 election

Freedom of Speech

Memes are legal again

A judge has thrown out the conviction of Douglass Mackey for posting a meme

Neal Pollack

How the legacy media became powerless

The 2024 election seems to sound the final knell for an industry that managed to hang on well past its prime

Ben Domenech

Bill Clinton’s latest memoir sees him at his chirpiest — and most combative

As much as anything else, Citizen is a book of omissions

Christopher Sandford

The mental health election spiral

Why are so many people losing their minds over election outcomes?

Amber Duke

Politics

The Democrats need a new rulebook

At the start of this century the party had a very clear picture of what the future was supposed to look like. Trump proved it a mirage

Daniel McCarthy

Prejudices
December 26, 2024
The new political era
Donald J. Trump is, without a doubt, the most remarkable American politician to hold office since 1945
Chilton Williamson, Jr.
Politics
December 17, 2024
Democrats are about to get a do-over for their 2017 mistakes
Working with Trump instead of engaging in knee-jerk opposition might get them more
Ben Domenech
Politics
July 18, 2024
Trump has reshaped the GOP. What comes next?
It seems clear that, even as much as many enduring members of the Republican Party coalition would like, there is no going back
Ben Domenech
Europe
May 15, 2024
Is Europe ready for Trump 2.0?
European leaders are operating as if the former president has already won, not wanting to be caught flat-footed yet again
Daniel DePetris
Law
May 7, 2024
Stormy Daniels takes the stand
The adult film star told the Manhattan courtroom about her evening with Donald Trump in 2006
Matt McDonald
Politics
August 18, 2023
Confessions of a Russiagate survivor
During the febrile peak, now two special counsels ago, I was the one facing a chance of getting locked up
Sam Patten
Campaign 2024
July 17, 2023
Trump versus the party
Once again, the GOP has Three Stooges syndrome
Ben Domenech
Politics
April 20, 2023
The New Right is going nowhere — and knows it
What the realigners got wrong
Ben Domenech
Politics
March 7, 2023
Bill’s shattered Kristol ball
Weekly Standard and Bulwark founder offers more terrible fantasy presidential picks
Cockburn
February 12, 2023
Why Russiagate was the media’s Vietnam
The press declared war on Donald Trump. They lost
Ashley Rindsberg

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