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Trump’s Anti-Affordability Agenda Has a New Target: College
You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. President Trump and his administration are cracking down...
Transcript: Trump’s Fury at Prices Goes Wild as Crushing New Polls Hit
But the funny thing is, if you want to fix prices, this isn’t the way to do it, is it? No, it’s not. Bessent, who has the reputation of...
MAGA’s State-by-State Plot to Butcher Democracy
Four years later, in a racial gerrymandering case from Alabama, Allen v. Milligan (formerly Merrill v. Milligan), Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh worked together to invite the Voting Rights Act case they really...
How Mikie Sherrill Won Latino Voters Back for Democrats
Sherrill’s campaign was not the only organization engaging with Latino voters. Make the Road New Jersey, an advocacy group that encourages Latino civic participation, engaged with voters in Elizabeth,...
Trump’s Case Against James Comey Is Crashing and Burning
This was already an unusual move on the grand jury’s part; the cliche is that a decent prosecutor could get one to indict a ham sandwich. (Well, with some...
Visions of Byzantine Hell
They were just following orders, the angels,when they shoved sinners into the River of Fire,or boiled them alive in cauldrons. It’s the economy,stupid. The frescoes in the Byzantine churchesof...
Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly Is a Cautionary Tale
Noah Baumbach first made a name for himself 30 years ago, writing and directing intelligent dark comedies about sad boys and angry men staring down the barrel of adulthood...
Season in the Dark
A stone-faced man sits in a folding chairat the edge of his lawn. He’s facing outtoward the street, where the threat awaits.He glares at me as if I am...
Trump’s Anger Over Prices Goes Nuclear as Fresh Polls Show Him Tanking
President Trump is cratering in two new polls. A Marist survey has his overall approval rating at 39 percent, and a Marquette poll has his approval plunging on the...
MAGA Is Livid Ted Cruz Accidentally Helped Block Texas Redistricting
Donald Trump’s major electoral setback in Texas is thanks, in no small part, to Ted Cruz.A three-judge panel ruled against the Lone Star State’s gerrymandering effort Tuesday, ordering Texas...
