Reddit and the End of Online ‘Community’ (nymag.com)
A standoff between the site and some of its most devoted users exposes an existential dilemma.
House Republicans: No Aid for Israel Unless Rich Tax Cheats Get a Break (nymag.com)
Trump Is Actually Guilty of the Kind of Bribery Republicans Imagine Biden Did (nymag.com)
Trump Warns ‘Cognitively Impaired’ Biden May Cause ‘World War Two’ (nymag.com)
Trump’s Economic Plan: Raise Taxes on the Middle Class, Cut Them on the Rich (nymag.com)
The discourse of the Trump era has been dominated by a conceit that the two major parties have swapped economic identities. The Democrats have supposedly abandoned their historical role as spokespeople for the working class to represent the neoliberal global elite, while the Republicans have been transmuted into scruffy...
Even Clarence Thomas’s Law Clerks Can’t Defend His Misconduct (nymag.com)
After the most recent revelations, Thomas’s defenders have gone conspicuously silent. Organs like National Review and conservative legal apparatchik Ed Whelan, who loudly dismissed evidence of wrongdoing by Thomas, have had nothing to say about Thomas’s many billionaire patrons....
Some Voters Think Trump’s a Criminal and Support Him Anyway (nymag.com)
Asked whether they believed Trump has or has not “committed serious federal crimes,” 54 percent of poll respondents replied that he had. But 19 percent of them confirmed they’d still vote for this criminal ex-president in 2024. Along the same vein, 13 percent of those who believe Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020...
U.S. v. Trump Is the Most Important Criminal Prosecution in American History (nymag.com)
Statue of Liberty Shut Down by Protesters Calling for Gaza Cease-fire (nymag.com)
Dressed uniformly in black, the protesters with Jewish Voice for Peace gathered on the pedestal shortly before 1 p.m. when they dropped massive banners with calls for a cease-fire and other slogans, such as “The Whole World Is Watching” and “Never Again for Anyone.” The group sang “Cease-fire now” and occupied the...
The Strikes Are Working (nymag.com)
Analysis: A Quick Guide to Justice Clarence Thomas’s Ethics Scandals (nymag.com)
We’re keeping track of the recent pileup of revelations regarding secret financial arrangements between the justice and his rich friends.
Trump Touts Endorsements From Global Dictators (nymag.com)
Donald Trump has flitted erratically from one position to another on a variety of political beliefs, but he has hewed with remarkable consistency to one: Dictators are good. Trump has maintained this belief throughout his long public career, and he asserted it once again in a speech in New Hampshire Saturday....
Mike Johnson’s Election Denial Should Raise Alarms for 2024 (nymag.com)
Cassidy Hutchinson Says Rudy Giuliani Groped Her During January 6 Rally (nymag.com)
Trump Supporter Charged With Threatening to Kill Trump’s Trial Judge (nymag.com)
A Texas woman has been charged with threatening the life of the federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s election-interference case, telling her, “If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you. So, tread lightly, bitch.”...
Jack Smith Wants to Put Trump on Trial Before the Election (nymag.com)
Cassidy Hutchinson Says Rudy Giuliani Groped Her During January 6 Rally (nymag.com)
No, Democrats Are Not Driving America’s Culture Wars (nymag.com)
…All available evidence indicates that the Democrats are becoming a more culture war–focused, economically moderate party — except, that is, for what Democratic politicians actually say and do....
Statue of Liberty Shut Down by Protesters Calling for Gaza Cease-fire (nymag.com)
Abortion Is Now a Wedge Issue — Against Republicans (nymag.com)
Ron DeSantis’s Nazi Outreach Is a Strategy, Not an Accident (nymag.com)
The Sequel Will Be Worse: Trump’s former Justice Department officials fear a second term. (nymag.com)
Trump’s ‘He Did It First’ Rationale for Locking Up His Critics (nymag.com)
Obviously, Trump’s premise that he is being prosecuted by Joe Biden because he is running against him is false. Trump is being prosecuted because he is a career criminal, and there is no evidence any of the prosecutors taking him to court have communicated with President Biden....
Trump’s Economic Message Is Fool’s Gold for Swing Voters (nymag.com)
GOP Hard-liners Overplayed Their Hand Against McCarthy (nymag.com)
The great ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu taught that warriors who lured their enemy into a trap should leave a way of escape to save face and avoid a desperate battle to the death. The conservative House members seeking to trap Speaker Kevin McCarthy into a hard-line position on federal spending as a government...
