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The longtime Democratic Party lawyer (who actually had his own desk at FBI headquarters!) has already filed more than 60 preelection lawsuits to stop Trump from becoming president again by combatting what he calls Republican “voter suppression” efforts such as requiring voters to provide identification at the polls. Echoing a standard Democratic ta... See more

Tony Seruga

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So here is the truly odd political choice that we are given today: a sick version of a higher level versus a healthy version of a lower level—liberalism versus conservatism.

Ken Wilber • A Theory of Everything

Someone like Gavin Newsom, governor of the most populous state and one of the most important economies in the entire world, could become enormously popular just by governing competently. People gravitated to CA for the weather and the mountains and the beaches and the open space - but also because in living memory it was a safe, well-governed place... See more

FischerKing x.com

But that is the situation. A power-mad president possessed of radical theories of executive authority and convinced of his own royal prerogative has given de facto control of most of the federal government to one of the richest men on the planet, if not the richest, whose own interests are tangled up in those of rival governments and foreign autocr... See more

Opinion | There Is No Going Back

For years, Yarvin was best known, to the extent that he was known at all, as the court philosopher of the Thiel-verse, the network of heterodox entrepreneurs, intellectuals, and hangers-on surrounding the tech mogul.

Ava Kofman • Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America

The audience laughed in Coulter’s face on Bill Maher’s show when she claimed in June 2015 that of all the Republican candidates Trump had the best chance of winning the presidency.

Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics

Ever since Reagan, the Republican Party has been a coalition of business interests and downscale whites, many of them evangelical Christians. By 2010 it was like a figure in a hall of mirrors whose head and body have been severed but continue to move as if they’re still attached. The persistence of the coalition required an immense amount of self-d

George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal

Despite its origin among Clinton-supporting Democrats, the birther conspiracy theory hopped party lines in the general election. The Fox News host Sean Hannity picked up the issue, as did the CNN host Lou Dobbs. Seventeen Republicans in Congress either suggested that Obama wasn’t born in the United States or voiced a strategic uncertainty.

Daniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire

The universally lauded Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate is a full-frontal assault on the implicit idea that biology plays virtually no role in social issues and norms. Nicholas Wade, at the time a New York Times science writer, wrote A Troublesome Inheritance about “Genes, Race and Human History.”