Jonathan Chait
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Trump’s Moscow Tower Problem | Trump, Inc.
WNYC Studios 1h 1 tweets
Donald Trump has tried many times to build in Moscow. We look at some of his partners and find one reason why he might've needed to enlist help from the very top of Russia’s government.
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Jonathan Chait There's a zoning angle to the Russia scandal now 1h
A Summary of the 2019 Economic Report of the President
The White House 16h 1 tweets
For the second consecutive year, the U.S. economy outperformed expectations and broke from recent trends by a substantial margin.
The bread crumb papers: Why Cohen document dump should worry Donald Trump and others
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Redactions can be used to avoid alerting a defendant before he's charged or tipping off suspects in a pending investigation. Who might that apply to?
Bernie Sanders Just Hired His Twitter Attack Dog
The Atlantic 41h 21 tweets
David Sirota had been working unofficially for Sanders while savaging the other Democratic candidates on Twitter.
Devin Nunes Files Bonkers $250 Million Lawsuit Over Mean Tweets
Jonathan Chait - Intelligencer 48h 3 tweets
Nunes claims that tweets from accounts like “Devin Nunes’ Mom” and “Devin Nunes’ Cow” run “contrary to every tenet of American Democracy.”
Jonathan Chait We knew Devin Nunes was crazy, but his $250 million lawsuit over mean tweets shows that he's completely barking mad 47h
Jonathan Chait I read Devin Nunes' legal case for why he should get $250 million because Twitter allowed people to tweet mean things about him. It's even crazier than you would think. 46h
The Beto Woke Wars
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Beto O’Rourke has become problematic. O’Rourke was 2018’s progressive golden boy, with record breaking small-dollar fundraising, a viral defense of kneeling NFL players, and the love of Richard Linklater. His merch littered the enclaves of liberal...
Jonathan Chait Interesting piece by on the silliness of some of the attacks on Beto O'Rourke 48h
Republicans Are Denying Trump’s Completely Open Bigotry Against Muslims
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White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney: “I don’t think anybody can say that the president is anti-Muslim.” Really? Anybody?
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Jonathan Chait Trump is a massive anti-Muslim bigot and it's astonishing Republicans deny this with a straight face 3d
NEWS
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Why Words Matter
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Editor’s note: In light of President’s Trump’s comments about “tough guys” on the right, I thought it was a good idea to reprint this piece by Jacob T. Levy, originally published by the Niskanen Center in February 2018. Just about a year into the...
Economic Dignity
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We must not lose sight of what economic policy is all about: allowing people to lead dignified lives.
The Argument That the President ‘Cannot Be Indicted’ Is Surprisingly Weak
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In a CNN face-off between former independent counsel Ken Starr and President Clinton’s former press secretary Joe Lockhart last week, Starr dropped a mini-bombshell, saying that he “disagree[s] with the Justice Department’s guidelines” that a...
Jonathan Chait Pithy pushback against the conventional wisdom that a president can't be indicted by 6d
Manafort Might Still Have to Answer to Mueller
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The disgraced operative still needs to answer for his ties to a suspected Russian spy.
Jonathan Chait Read explain why prosecutors probably aren't done with Manafort's collusion 6d
The Office I declare bankruptcy! Michael Scott
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Jonathan Chait I think there's a formal process here, you don't just shout the word. Common mistake 7d
Life of Brian - The People's Front of Judea
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PFJ
Jonathan Chait is way beyond the parody of Life of Brian 7d
When Did Everyone Become a Socialist?
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It’s AOC’s calling card, Trump’s latest rhetorical bludgeon, and a new way to date in Brooklyn.
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Jonathan Chait "Twitter — a medium that structurally encourages moral grandstanding, savage infighting, and collective action — is where young socialism lives." 7d
Cory Booker’s massive overhaul of the Newark schools, explained
Dylan Scott - Vox 8d 4 tweets
Cory Booker, Chris Christie, and Mark Zuckerberg teamed up to overhaul Newark schools. Did they succeed or fail?
Jonathan Chait Terrific report on Cory Booker's education reform in Newark, which created a lot of enemies but also better education for poor kids. 7d
All Presidents | C-SPAN Survey on Presidents 2017
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Which presidents do Presidential Historians rank best? Find out with C-SPAN's Presidential Historian Survey.
Sanders aide apologizes for questioning American Jews’ 'dual allegiance' to Israel
POLITICO 9d 17 tweets
The 2020 candidate's deputy press secretary later deleted her Facebook post after POLITICO began asking about it.
Jonathan Chait Spokesperson for Bernie Sanders defends Omar, didn't get the memo that she's supposed to make it about Christian Zionists 8d
Identity Politics and Dual Loyalties
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It is common on the mainstream Right to complain about the rise of identity politics. All the talk of intersectionality and white privilege makes conservatives wince. They are already loud and proud in their anti-racism, so they’re confused and...
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Jonathan Chait The nationalist right doesn't like but they do think she's onto something important with the dual loyalty idea 8d
Call me sometime when you have No Class
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Jonathan Chait If I wrote a cultural studies paper about the politics of this film, I would title it "Call Me Sometime When You Have No Class" 9d