Politics Archive
Archives for August 2025
There are legitimate business rationales. But could corporate fear of Trump retaliation also play a role?
Trump’s DC police takeover doesn’t poll well. But the public continues to distrust Democrats on crime.
Progressives can’t afford to trust their guts.
Trump emerged from talks with little to show for it.
Right now, he’s doing authoritarianism badly. But it could still work in the long run.
The racist history that explains Trump’s federal takeover of DC police.
This deal has everything: Semiconductors, DeepSeek, constitutional violations.
The Court has a special set of rules for Trump.
The largely symbolic move has more to do with politics than supporting Palestinians’ right to self-determination.
The Trump administration will be allowed to withhold billions in foreign aid.
How a stand-up comic’s hours-long broadcasts explain the 2020s.
Why Trump’s latest nominee has economists worried.
The question is whether a Republican judiciary will read the entire law governing Trump’s power over DC, or just the part that Trump likes.
An Israeli pollster explains what people there actually think about the events shocking the world’s conscience.
Nostalgia is lying to you about how good things were.