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Donald Trump Wants To Eliminate the Whole Government Except the Pentagon

Kamala Harris Is Dealing Away A Huge Democratic Advantage on Taxes

Harris, Trump, and the Working Class

In Praise of Mediocrity

Memo To Harris: Talk Labor!

Noncompetes: Bad, Yes. Medieval, No.

Medicare Drug Discounts Have Arrived, and They're a Big Fucking Deal

Why Donald Trump Can't Quit His Inflation Narrative

Trump v. Reagan

Neil Gorsuch's Anti-Regulatory Jurisprudence For Dummies

Tim Walz Signed An Astounding Labor Protection Law In Minnesota

Kamala My House

O Canada!

Before Trump, There Was William Calley

Don't Pick Mark Kelly For Veep

My Favorite Maine Places

In Memoriam: Walter Shapiro

Donald Trump and the GOP Cult of William McKinley

Republican Pro-Labor Cosplay

Blame John Wayne For the AR-15

More on the GOP Platform

The Lobby Industry Is Less Formidable Than You've Been Told

I Read the GOP Platform So You Don't Have To

How A Republican Party That Believes In Nothing Writes A Platform

Will Loper Bright Crash the Economy?

It Gets Worse: Bannon Scores Policy Victory En Route To The Slammer

To Put Last Night's Debate Fiasco In Perspective, Consider Our Asteroid Problem

Why Were We In Vietnam?

The Art of Vint Lawrence

Why A Trump Victory Would Be Bad For America But Good For Me

If Donald Trump Is A Populist Then I Am a Yellow-Bellied Marmot

Meredith Willson, Inflation Fighter

The Case for Taxing Tips

Ban the Bucket List

Why I Think Trump Will Do Hard Time

Jamie Dimon Should Not Be A Democrat

Live Nation, Cartoon Monopolist

L. "Zeeker" Brent Bozell IV Gets 45 Months

Union-Busting Firms That Warn Workers Against Outsiders Are ... Um ... Outsiders

The Decline of Congressional Hearings

Tariffs Are Back

A Missed Culinary Opportunity in "Challengers"

The Great Trump Second-Term Fire Sale

The Peter Principle Revisited

Is America Creating Un-American Jobs?

The Best War Correspondent I Ever Saw

The Real Crime Wave

Trump Has No Clue About A Second Term

Please Don't Feed the Teenagers

Bring Back the New Deal

Shawn Fain Is Killing It

Hollywood (and America) Had A Nervous Breakdown About Sex Right About 1958

Who's Afraid of the Administrative State?

Democrats Never Win the White House When the Working Class Votes Republican

The Heat Stroke Lobby

The Gun-Show Loophole Is Not Gone

The Youth Vote Has Never Been A Thing

Trump's Financial Train Wreck Is So Much More Interesting Than His Campaign

The Only Reason to Fear Trump's Return to Power, the Respectable Right Says, Is ... You Won't Believe How Stupid This Is.

If Truth Social Is Worth $8 Billion, MAGA Ain't "Populist."

Donald Trump on the Cross

Trump Is Treated Differently Because He Insists on Being Treated Differently

The Disgorgement of Donald Trump

Busted Flat at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

Jeanne Shaheen, Monopoly Queen?

Is THIS Why the GOP Coddles Tax Cheats?

Supermarket Comes to the Supermarket

Is It Happening Here?

Partisan Attacks on California Are Harshing My Mellow

Who's Afraid of the Professional-Managerial Class?

How Layoffs Became A Routine Fact of Life

Why Elon Wasn't Worth the $56 Billion Tesla Paid Him

Amazon Decides Not To Roomba

Does Housing Construction Bring Rents Down?

Ban the Benjamin

"The Holdovers" and How I Became a Writer

Artificial Intelligence for President

On Ambiguity

Judicial Restraint Is So Ten Minutes Ago

Sultans of Swing On a Quiet Night in Austin

Bring Back the Whigs

Ackman Agonistes

This Article Isn't Really About Elon Musk

Forget the Ivies. The Economy Depends on the Land Grants

Meet the Richest Person Who Ever Lived

How Events Are Conspiring to Obscure That Claudine Gay Got Pushed Out For Plagiarism