The centrist outfit’s latest foray into the culture wars isn’t about a streamer—it’s about entrenching oligarch control of influence and electoral infrastructure.
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Marcus Foundation Bankrolls Pro–Iran War Group
A foundation associated with Home Depot has been the biggest funder of one of the loudest voices for war against Iran.
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Centrists: Better Things Aren’t Possible
Third Way’s strategy session for Democratic moderates lacked any vision other than a hatred for progressives.
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How Do We Rebuild After Trump?
Many Trump critics are focused on what he is doing to our basic democratic compact. But there’s a reason that all the presidents who led us through our worst previous crises also had an aggressive program of reform—including public provision and ownership.
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When Sleeping Is a Crime
With a new executive order and model state legislation criminalizing homelessness, the richest people in the U.S. are making it easier to lock up the poorest.
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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.
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Jim DeMint Wants to Destroy Democracy
If the American people don’t want tax cuts and deregulation, too bad.
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The Blueprint
The far right has a plan to remake America. They even wrote it down.
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One Night With Elvis and the Men Plotting to Take Back America
Fear and loathing at the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual gala
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The Climate Denialist Think Tank That Might Produce the Next FTC Commissioner
It turns out that radical ideology IS allowed at the FTC.