Pete Hegseth’s Christianity—tribal, with plenty of enemies who deserve the sword—is central to the MAGA worldview.
Politics
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Eric Swalwell and the Death of Accountability
His sexual misconduct was an open secret. So why was he still seen as a rising star in the party?
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Getting New York City to Believe in Government
Maintaining the momentum of Zohran Mamdani’s historically successful election campaign has meant doing the little things right.
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The Friends of Viktor Orbán
Trump and Putin, Bibi and Tucker Carlson, thug-ocrats of all nations flock to Orbán’s banner.
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Trump’s Wreckage of Social Security and Medicare
The assault on cherished social insurance programs is a gift to Democrats, but only if they are clear about how to defend them.
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Mass Protest: Where Are the Kids?
The latest No Kings marches attracted a record eight million people. Most of them were of an advanced age that suggested they personally remembered the 1960s.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
NEPA and Its Discontents
What’s missing from the political conversation around America’s embattled environmental law?
Posted inEconomic Policy
Live Tax-Free and Die
After mining out state budgets for 50 years, conservative lawmakers across the country are now turning their pickaxes to local governments’ largest source of revenue: property taxes.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Who Wrote the 25th Amendment?
It turns out he’s still alive, and still teaching at Fordham Law. We had some questions about an amendment that wasn’t written to meet a moment like this.
Posted inEconomic Policy
A Retrospective on Bidenomics
Joe Biden listened to the left on full employment. But the lasting effects were wanting, and the politics were brutal.
