The War of Southern Aggression • The MAGA reconstruction of the North is well underway

Calling This Court "Supreme" Is Obeying in Advance • When will legal elites stop passing off tyranny in robes as the rule of law?

Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight • “Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.

Jimmy Kimmel Live! Lives On While the Oligarchs' Power Grab Rolls On • What the Kimmel dustup tells us about the demise of free speech

Shadows and Shadow Casters • Politics is about power.

Monsters and Their Enablers • A Weekend Reading Reboot

Trump’s Split with Leonard Leo Is No Victory for the Rule of Law • The enemy of your enemy is not always your friend.

The Trump Regime’s War on Working People: The First 100 Days • How Unions are Resisting Authoritarian Attacks on Workers’ Rights—and Why It Matters for Everyone

From “Deportation” to Abduction • How the media and consultant class’s poll-washing enabled the abduction of Kilmar Abrego Garcia—and what comes next

America’s Second “Redemption” • There have been two long marches to Reconstruction in American history—and two swift, brutal backlashes. We are in the middle of the second.

The Courts Will Not Save Us • We must resist the learned helplessness of judicial supremacy.

Oligarchs Understand Power. Do We? • Unions make us strong.

Don’t Praise in Advance • A Cure for Mad Surrender Disease

Change No One Would Have Believed • Audacious hopes recede in the rear view mirror

Virtual Event Thursday, Jan. 16: The U.S. Judiciary and Democratic Backsliding • Join me and two panels of top experts to discuss how captured courts enable autocracy, at home and abroad.

Outrunning the Bear • A recording from my live conversation with Chris Cillizza

How Trump “Won” • The Anesthetized Anti-MAGA Majority

This Is NOT a Year-End Appeal • I’ll be honest with you—these are some of the best charts from Weekend Reading this year.

The Great Forgetting • The Lost Years

Is This What Democracy Looks Like? • If we don't like it, it's "just too bad." -John Roberts