This Supreme Court session demonstrated that the current conservative majority is unrestrained in its desire to expand its own power.
Conservatism
Posted inWorking in America
A Grand Old Party for Workers?
How corporate conservatism trumps MAGA gestures on behalf of the working class
Posted inPolitics
Needles in Project 2025’s Haystack
Both the details and the broad strokes are terrifying.
Posted inPolitics
The Dangerous Authoritarian Gunning to Serve as Trump’s Grand Vizier
Russell Vought is rumored to be under consideration for chief of staff in a second Trump administration. This would be a disaster.
Posted inPodcasts
The Early 90s Were Decadent and Depraved
John Ganz discusses his new book on how the period anticipated Trump.
Posted inPolitics
Project 2025 … and 1921, and 1973, and 1981
Terrifying blueprints for the next Republican presidency are a quadrennial tradition.
Posted inTAP
The British Election: Not Quite as Predicted
Today on TAP: Labour won, but now Keir Starmer needs to earn his mandate.
Posted inPodcasts
When the President Does It, That Means It Is Not Illegal
The Supreme Court says that Donald Trump is a special boy above the law.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Student Loan Rulings Highlight Unaccountable Judicial Power—Again
Two judges this week invalidated part of a program that’s been in place for 30 years. The rulings contradict each other and seem unworkable in practice.
Posted inTAP
SCOTUS’s History and Tradition of Error Correction
Today on TAP: The Supreme Court takes a step back from its partisan ‘history and tradition’ test.
