Jonathan Chait
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Bank Robbery Scene | The Dark Knight (2008) Movie Clip
Jonathan Chait
@maggieNYT Trump's personnel strategy was like the Joker in the Dark Knight. Everybody's job is to screw over the last person.
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In Business and Governing, Trump Seeks Victory in Chaos
For people who have done business with the president, the protracted fight over the government shutdown reflects a time-tested playbook.
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Jonathan Chait
Brilliant and morbidly hilarious @maggieNYT / @russbeuttner story contextualizing Trump's shutdown tactics as a continuation of his business tactics
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Indigenous Peoples March Washington, D.C.
Is this how we make America great "again"? 1/18/2019
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Jonathan Chait
I can only hope that the parents of the Trumpy boys who taunted this Native American are humiliated and heartbroken. I can only hope.
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Peter Carr Speaks
Robert Mueller has the unenviable task of needing to sustain as much credibility for a bunch of serial liars as possible, starting with Michael Cohen. Buzzfeed's story -- whether generally true or erroneous on details about Trump Organization...
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Jonathan Chait
Very interesting @emptywheel analysis of what Mueller's pushback against the Buzzfeed story indicates.
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President Trump Directed His Attorney To Lie To Congress About The Moscow Tower Project
Trump received 10 personal updates from Michael Cohen and encouraged a planned meeting with Vladimir Putin.
How the Liberal Democrats’ coalition past endangers their anti-Brexit future
Vince Cable hasn’t yet managed to steer a course through the problem.
Jonathan Chait
If you're an outsider to UK politics (like me) and curious why the Liberal Democrats can't capitalize more on the collapse of the Tories and Corbyn's toxic unpopularity, @stephenkb explains
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The Simpsons - Could Homer Simpson be a Communist?
"Simpson Tide" - Season 9, Episode 19.
David Haskell Named Editor-in-Chief of New York Media
He has worked at the company since 2007 in a variety of roles, most recently as editor for business and strategy (since late 2016).
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Jonathan Chait
Hope this doesn't come across as suck-upy, but David Haskell has been my editor for 7 years and he is absolutely fantastic.
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If Only Obama Had Done the Things Obama Actually Did
Some on the left have repeated their complaints about Obama’s supposed failures so many times, they’ve forgotten everything he actually accomplished.
It doesn't take a crazy conspiracy theory to explain why Lindsey Graham is supporting Donald Trump
Some liberals have started to float crazy conspiracy theories involving Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., somehow being blackmailed into supporting President Trump.
Goodbye, New York. Adam Moss Is Leaving the Magazine He Has Edited for 15 Years.
At 61, an editor known for his obsessive style steps away from a publication that told New Yorkers where to eat and what to think. “I don’t wake up obsessed every morning, and I used to,” he said.
Trump Discussed Pulling U.S. From NATO, Aides Say Amid New Concerns Over Russia
The president’s repeatedly stated desire in private to withdraw from the alliance has raised concerns among officials who fear he may revisit the threat.
Why Kamala And Beto May Have More Upside Than Joe And Bernie
Last week, we introduced a method for evaluating Democratic presidential contenders, which focused on their ability to build a coalition among key constituencie…
Jonathan Chait
This @NateSilver538 coalition-model handicapping guide to the democratic field closely tracks my thinking (except that it made me realize Harris is a more formidable candidate than i had thought.)
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Toward a Unifying Republican Agenda
The GOP needs to cultivate a sense of national fellowship.
The Meaning of Trump’s Typos
They suggest not just inadequate manners or polish, but inadequate thought.
Fact Finders
Imagine that God were to appear on Earth for the unlikely purpose of settling, once and for all, our disputes over economic policy. And suppose that, to my enormous surprise, he announced that every empirical claim advanced by conservatives was...
Jonathan Chait
@JonahNRO Liberalism, by contrast, is ideologically indifferent to market vs. state methods. It's only concerned with human welfare outcomes (which can, of course, be debated.)
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The Free Market Is Not Just a Tool
The rightwing anti-market populists are going to need to do a lot more thinking about what they are actually advocating here.
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Jonathan Chait
This @JonahNRO column makes a point I've long emphasized: movement conservatism is ideologically committed to small government irrespective of its human welfare outcomes
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Trump will "probably" declare national emergency absent a deal in Congress
Where this shutdown ends, nobody knows
Louis C.K. and Aziz Ansari have an opportunity for redemption. They’re squandering it.
Their post-#MeToo comedy is a loss for us all.
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Jonathan Chait
Maybe the lesson here should be that subjecting Aziz Ansiri to public humiliation vastly disproportionate to his offense made him start questioning his former allies? vox.com/2019/1/9/18172… pic.twitter.com/at7ALSVqPd
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