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Democrats Are Laughing at Trump’s Midterm Plan. They Shouldn’t.
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (329+ words) Welcome to this week’s historic edition of the Surge, here in our brand-new home. Do you like the imported marble floors and silk window treatments? We’ll tell ya, it was a real hassle getting those through the Strait of Hormuz....
Was It Worth It? SCOTUS and Big Law Pay the Price of Cowardice
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Rep Greg Casar’s anti-artificial intelligence populism.
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The Progressive Case for Midterms Optimism
3+ week, 4+ hour ago (89+ words) The Dems might—at last—be in array. Since losing the 2024 presidential election, Democrats have been doing a lot of finger pointing. But with the midterms this fall, it’s time to stop pointing and start saying what you actually believe…...
How a Stolen Seat Changed SCOTUS Forever
3+ week, 2+ day ago (629+ words) Advertisement Listen & Subscribe Choose your preferred player: Apple Podcasts Spotify TuneIn Pocket Casts RSS Feed For questions about subscriptions or your Slate Plus feed, check our FAQ. Please enable javascript to get your Slate Plus feeds. All Slate Plus Podcasts…...
Off the Record: We Don’t Talk About Natalie
3+ week, 2+ day ago (158+ words) When you’re talking about this printer, there is no black and white. Nobody objected to Jon Ossoff calling the president disinterested in doing his job. But an off-hand mention of Trump’s “human printer”? That, for some reason, took things way…...
How Islamophobia Got Even Worse
3+ week, 4+ day ago (84+ words) The GOP is embracing Islamophobia; Democrats aren’t stopping it. Islamophobia has never gone away. And while it has been wielded as an electoral strategy against Zohran Mamdani, Abdul El-Sayed and even Barack Obama, the shameless nature of the Islamophobia coming…...
Is Tech Dismantling Democracy?
3+ week, 5+ day ago (99+ words) Jill Lepore on how to fight back. Our Silicon Valley overlords, as they’ll tell you, aren’t huge fans of liberal democracy—and their products that we’ve integrated into our lives reflect that. As we rely on them more and more,…...
Donald Trump Has Committed Too Many High Crimes to Count. But Should Democrats Really Impeach Again?
4+ week, 3+ hour ago (422+ words) If, as seems likely, Democrats win control of the House of Representatives in November, there will be tremendous pressure from the Democratic base to start a third round of impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump. If Democrats also win the Senate,…...
It’s Obvious Now Why “Woke 1” Failed. I Have an Idea for How Progressives Can Be Less Annoying Next Time.
4+ week, 3+ hour ago (976+ words) It wasn’t the ideas that were the problem. It was the execution. I need to acknowledge up front that it is unwise for anybody—including me—to deduce any comprehensive conclusions about the Democratic Party and where it’s headed from…...