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My Non-Prediction Predictions For 2025

Brian's 2024 Pundit Accountability

Trump, Tech Weirdos, And The Republican Crusade For Cultural Dominance

AMA Thursday

More On Ethical Populism

Yes “Anticipatory Obedience” Would Be Harder If Democrats Weren’t Cowering

Democratic Capitulation Is Contagious

What A New Health Care Populism Might Actually Look Like

AMA Thursday

Democrats Need To Understand That Persuasion Is A Business—A Big One

It Isn't 2005 Or 2017 Anymore

Free Idea: No Democratic Votes For Loyalty-Tested Republicans

The New Gilded Age Will Be Streamed

AMA Thursday

Biden Owes The Country More Than One YOLO Power Play

Real News Companies—And Most Reporters—Should Be Off Twitter

19 Thoughts On The Pardon Of Hunter Biden

Democrats Need Real Leaders

Thanksgiving Mailbag

Thanksgiving Mailbag Thread

Democrats Just Need To Decide What They Believe

AMA Thursday

There's Nothing Exciting Or Constructive About This

Democrats Can Be Defiant Now And Hopeful For The Future

No, Trump's Cabinet Is Not A "Distraction"

The End Of Litmus Tests?

AMA Thursday

Democrats Don't Have To Be Perfect—But In Today's Media Environment They'll Always Be Seen As Failures

Democrats And Trump Loyalists Have One Shared Interest

Democrats PLEASE Try To Fix This Problem

AMA Thursday

Reflections On America's New Autocracy

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36 Thoughts On The 2024 Campaign

Why Everyone In Politics Panders To Republicans

Obama and Biden Were Not That Different

AMA Thursday

Run Up The Score

The Resistance Demands Respect, Too

Kamala Harris: For Men!

Kamala Harris Should Steal Donald Trump's Best Quality

AMA Thursday

OCTOBER SURPRISE: Donald Trump A World-Class Piece Of Sh*t

Democrats Still Don't Get The Power Of Accountability

24 Confessions Of A First-Time Canvasser

The Rotten World Elon Musk Is Trying To Force On Us

AMA Thursday

Let's Stop Playing Dumb

Don't Let This Man Have The Last Laugh

"When Did That Become Okay?"

Donald Trump Is Both Candidate And Insider Threat

AMA Thursday

The Case Against Bedwetting

What's Behind Creeping Democratic Doomerism?

MAGA's Hurricane Helene Lies Are A Trial Run For The Election

Jack Smith's Roadmap To Donald Trump's Corrupt Mind

AMA Thursday

Thirteen Thoughts On The VP Debate

Donald Trump, Hurricane Helene, And The Folly Of "Turning The Page"

How The Media Incentivizes Right-Wing Authoritarianism

A Year In Preview

AMA Thursday

Republicans Have A Nazi Problem

Kamala Harris Should Explain WHY She's The Underdog

Trump's Desperate Pandering To Young Men Is Probably A Dead End

The Trump Lie Machine Is Broken

AMA Thursday

Harris Should Prepare To Govern Around MAGA Sabotage

Vance Lets Slip: He and Trump Are Coming For Your Health Care

How Democrats Can Compete With The Trump Incitement Machine

We (Liberal Media Critics) Are Winning

Emergency Debate Pod: Concepts Of A Plan?

Project 2025 is Already Here

I Never Expected To Run For Office—Here's What I Learned

JD Vance Does NOT Have Six Nipples

Kamala Harris Learned The Most Important Lesson Of All

Kamala Harris Moderated Because Donald Trump Stopped Being President

24 Thoughts On Trump Accountability

Why Kamala Harris Can Be Insurgent And Incumbent Simultaneously

Democrats Find Confidence Without Complacency

AMA Thursday

Why Fact Checkers Mangle Facts To Provide Donald Trump Cover

Kamala Harris Understands The Real Challenge

The GOP Plan To Invert January 6

The New Three-Legged Stool Of GOP Politics Is Weird

AMA Thursday

Twenty-Four Thoughts On What Kamala Harris Owes The Press...

Trump Email Hack Is A Moment Of Reckoning For Him—Or The News Media

Kamala Harris's Rise Refutes An Influential Democratic Theory Of Politics

Donald Trump's Project 2025 Coverup Is Failing

AMA Thursday

Moderates Should Learn To Stop Worrying And Be Walznuts

Biden Should Declassify "Jaw-Dropping" Trump-Egypt Bribe Intelligence

Twenty-Four Thoughts On The Harris Veepstakes

Trump Flails Without EMAILS Or Age Smears

AMA Thursday

The Coming Trump-Harris Double Standard

JD Vance And The Second Faceplant Of The Reformicons

Republicans Are About To Become Desperate

The Perils Of Backseat Driving Kamala Harris

Don't Let The GOP's Harris Smears Go Unanswered

Have We Entered A New Era Of One-Term Presidents?

Joe Biden Has Given America A Fighting Chance

Trump Reminds Democrats He's Beatable—Against A Party That Can Fight

AMA Thursday

How Biden Should Answer Trump's Nomination

Taking Stock After Three Disorienting Weeks

Four Maxims For A Scary Moment Of Uncertainty

Desperate Times, Desperate Measures, And The Biden Question

AMA Thursday

What A Biden Turnaround Might Look Like

Joe Biden Might Still Choose To Stand Aside—Here's How

A Methodical Approach To The Democratic Succession Crisis

AMA Wednesday

A Better Way To Respond To The Supreme Court's Intolerable Immunity Decision

What We Can Expect Of The People Closest To Joe Biden

Calling For Biden To Retire Is No Longer Knee-Jerk; Doubling Down On Him Is

Emergency Debate Pod: Bye Bye Biden?

The Business Elites Who Know Trump 2.0 Would Be A Disaster Should Say So

Trump's 'Bumfights For Migrants' Plan Exposes The Toxic Rot Of MAGA Nativism

A Four-Part Plan For Outdebating Donald Trump

Why Conceding To Lies About The Economy Is A Big Mistake

AMA Thursday

Call MAGA's Jeffrey Epstein Bluff

The Republicans Feeding You Cheapfakes Think You're Stupid

The GOP's Finely Tuned Bribery Machine

AMA Thursday

How Republicans Bootstrap Lies And Conspiracy Theories To Gain Power At The Expense Of Functioning Democracy

How Joe Biden Can Improve Perceptions Of The Economy

Republicans Are Revealing Their Own Weaknesses

Yes, Democrats Should Still Care How Real Journalists Cover The News

AMA Thursday

The F-Word Is Not Enough

There's No Shortage Of Ways To Keep Donald Trump's Felony Convictions On The Front Page

Democrats Need To Join The Fight Over The Trump Verdict Now

15 Thoughts On The Conviction Of Donald Trump

AMA Thursday

Why Are These Business Leaders So Dumb?

Biden Beat Trumpflation And The Trump Crime Wave

Biden's Critics On The Left Should Rethink The Concept Of 'Leverage'

AMA Thursday

Lacking Campaign Guidance, Biden Allies Fritter Away Opportunities Against Trump

No, The Hush Money Trial Isn’t Helping Donald Trump

Expose The Shadow Docket

OK, Now What?

AMA Thursday

Jail Donald Trump

How To Reanimate The Democracy Fight

Can Democrats Ever Learn From Experience?

Democrats Are Not Helpless Victims Of Forces Beyond Their Control

AMA Thursday

No, Donald Trump Is Not Entitled To Secret Service Protection In Jail Or Prison

The Mainstream Media's Guilty Conscience

Democrats Need To Tell Better Stories

AMA Thursday

Donald Trump Sees The Threat Of Violence As A Skeleton Key To Unchecked Power

Are Democrats (Finally) Breaking Up With The Mainstream Media?

How Democrats Should Prepare For A Corrupt SCOTUS Trump-Immunity Decision

What Democrats Can Learn From Trump's Arrangement With The National Enquirer

AMA Thursday

Why Are Democrats Leaving This To Liz Cheney?

CIVIL WAR Is A Good Movie With A Big Flaw (SPOILERS)

No Strange New Respect For Mike Johnson

Republicans Never Abandoned Their Hatred Of The New Deal

AMA Thursday

Meet The Dead-Enders Still Trashing The Biden Boom

Biden Should End His Vow Of Silence On Trump's Legal Jeopardy

How To Beat Back Donald Trump's Most Insidious Lie

The Political Effects Of Policy Stem From Vibes, Too

Trump Can't Wriggle His Way Out After Banning Abortion

Don't Let Donald Trump Confess—Expose Him First

The Embarrassingly Weak Case For Sonia Sotomayor To Stick It Out

Unmask Donald Trump

AMA Thursday

Trump Did Collusion And Is Also A Fascist, Even If Democrats Can Be Pretty Lame Sometimes

Are Democrats Getting Better At Moving Public Opinion?

Donald Trump, COVID-19, And The Francis Scott Key Bridge Calamity

AMA Thursday

The Political Economy Of Normalization

The Psychological Roots Of Trump-Impunity Politics

Another Shady Impeachment Witness Exposes The GOP's Twisted Game

The Case For 2024 Optimism

AMA Thursday

Donald Trump Isn't Running A Presidential Campaign

Desperate Trump Turns Once Again To Paul Manafort For Money, Cheating

Joe Biden Should Deny Donald Trump Classified Candidate Briefings

Has Joe Biden Quelled Democratic Panic?

AMA Thursday

How To Drive Donald Trump's Biggest Flip Flop Home For Voters

Trump’s Corruption-Policy Nexus Comes Into Focus

Reporters Missed Katie Britt's Huge Lie; What Else Are They Missing?

The First Part Of Joe Biden’s Speech Was SO Important

AMA Thursday

Four Years Ago, Donald Trump Knew How Dangerous COVID Was—And Lied About It

The Trump Hush-Money Case Is A Righteous Opportunity, Not An Embarrassment

Joe Biden Can't Win Without Looking Backward

"I Don't Know If Most People Even Know What Party Is In The Senate Majority"

AMA Thursday

Biden Should Tell The Public What The Government Knows About Trump's Collusion

The Curious Case Of Nikki Haley And The Missing Democratic Also-Rans

IVF And The Faithlessness Of The GOP

Will Democrats Really Shrug Off The GOP's Latest, Biggest Betrayal?

AMA Thursday

Donald Trump’s Cynical Abortion Feint Carries Important Lessons

Trump's Huge Fraud Verdict Is A Watershed Moment for Accountability—And New Corruption

How False Republican Bravado Warps All Politics

AMA Thursday

Why Bombshell News Never Seems To Break Democrats' Way

The Warnings Against Biden Alternatives Are Mostly Meritless

The Democratic Party Owes Us Some Candor

Liberal Justices Should Demand A Price For Blessing Trump's Candidacy

Special Edition: Five Thoughts On The Hur Report

AMA Thursday

It's The Bad Faith, Stupid

The Mainstream Media Should Be Honest About Trump’s Border Sabotage

Eight Reasons Democrats Shouldn't Cave To Trump's Latest Ploy

Reminder To Democrats: Donald Trump Is One Of America's Worst People

AMA Thursday

Joe Biden's Patience Is His Biggest Strength And Weakness

Taylor Swift Exposed The GOP Freakshow By Being Normal

This Is Why Trump Is So Desperate To End The GOP Primary

The Material Stakes Of The GOP Assault On Democracy Become Obvious

AMA Thursday

Republicans Are Playing With Fire—Again

Politics Is Lowbrow

Biden And Trump Tacitly Agree About 2024

A Novel Theory Of Joe Biden's Political Woes

AMA Thursday

The Democrats' Alarming Nonchalance About The Juggernaut Of Reactionary Media

Republicans Choose Chaos, Violence, And Election Lies

Democrats™ Awaken To The Consequences Of Conflict Avoidance

AMA Thursday

Donald Trump Wants The Economy To Crash—That Means He’ll Try To Make It Happen

We Can't Afford Weak-Kneed Liberalism In The Trump Era

Biden's January 6 Speech Was The Template For A Winning Campaign

Jamie Raskin Uncovers Proof Of Trump's Foreign Bribes

AMA Thursday

Liberals In Open Primary States Should Vote For Nikki Haley

The Arguments For Placing Trump Above The Constitution Are Glib And Shrinking

My Non-Prediction Predictions For 2024