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My Non-Prediction Predictions For 2026

The gyre widens..

Dec 31, 2025 • Brian Beutler

Brian's 2025 Pundit Accountability

Nailed it! (Kinda did, actually...)

Dec 30, 2025 • Brian Beutler

Affordability As Quicksand

What’s to be done about a problem that has no defined dimensions?

Dec 19, 2025 • Brian Beutler, The New Republic, and Will Stancil

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The Unspoken Assumptions Driving The Jasmine Crockett Freakout

Inside the mailbag: Gavin Newsom ... James Talarico ... Hotel gyms

Dec 18, 2025 • Brian Beutler

Impeachment, 25th Amendment, Or Fire The Help

Parsing Vanity Fair's crazy Susie Wiles profile.

Dec 17, 2025 • Brian Beutler

It's Bad When People Get Murdered—Even People Who Don't Like Donald Trump

Politicize Rob Reiner. It's what he would've wanted.

Dec 16, 2025 • Brian Beutler

Crisis Of Confidence

Hakeem Jeffries will almost certainly become House speaker. Should he, though?

Dec 15, 2025 • Brian Beutler

Leave your question in comments.

Dec 14, 2025 • Brian Beutler

JD Vance's Inevitable Reckoning

Inside the mailbag: Usha ... Joe Biden ... Mark Warner

Dec 11, 2025 • Brian Beutler

No Kings Means No Colonial Wars

Time may be short, but it hasn't run out.

Dec 9, 2025 • Brian Beutler

Leave your question in comments.

Dec 7, 2025 • Brian Beutler

The Trump-Epstein Emergency Isn't in the Files

Trump has distorted the political landscape so badly that it's warping the moral intuitions of people and institutions of account.

Dec 5, 2025 • Todd Zwillich

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