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Transcript: Why So Many of Trump’s Authoritarian Moves Have Failed

This is a lightly edited transcript of the March 11 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack.Perry Bacon: I’m Perry Bacon...

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A 79-Year-Old Freshman Senator?

“I’ll share my lipid profile with anybody!” Janet Mills, the governor of Maine, pledged to me.These are the kinds of assurances that candidates make when everyone keeps harping on their age.Mills, ...

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The College-Educated Working Class

This is an age of mutinies. For more than a decade in America, they’ve come so thick and fast that they trip over one another: the Tea Party, Occupy, Black Lives Matter, the Resistance, the anti-lo...

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Understanding Demonic Policies

Matt Yglesias has a good post on the UK’s Triple Lock, which requires that UK pensions rise in line with whichever is highest: wages, inflation, or 2.5 percent. Luis Garicano calls this “the single...

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A 95th birthday tribute to legendary SCOTUSblog reporter Lyle Denniston

The inimitable Lyle Denniston, who served as the primary reporter for SCOTUSblog from 2004 until 2016, celebrates his 95th birthday today. Lyle began his reporting career in 1948 at the county cour...

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Democrats push Trump for more details of Iran vision as war rages on

Democratic lawmakers on Sunday pushed the Trump administration to more clearly lay out its goals in Iran as war continues to rage on in the Middle East.With the war extending into its third week an...

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The Trump health policy both parties are bullish on

More states are encouraging businesses to help employees sign up for Obamacare.They’re using a policy backed by President Donald Trump — the same Donald Trump who spent much of the fall deriding Ob...

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The National Park Service race to rewrite history becomes a slog

The Trump administration's campaign to remove National Park Service exhibits that "inappropriately disparage" historical figures is bogged down more than nine months after Interior Secretary Doug B...

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Sunday links: consequential things

MarketsIf you're not confused right now, you're doing it wrong. (howardlindzon.com)Degens are now trading perpetual oil futures 24/7. (wsj.com)StrategyThere's no investing without some anxiety. (tk...

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Formula 1 cancels races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia amid Middle East conflict

Formula 1 has canceled races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia scheduled for April, as the ongoing war between Iran and the U.S. and Israel disrupts international sports throughout the Middle East.“Due t...

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Trump’s latest tariffs face a fresh set of legal hurdles

Just three weeks after the Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a stinging defeat over the sweeping tariffs he imposed last year, the legal battle over his first move to replace those import...

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Poll: Trump era tilts US allies toward Beijing

The 21st century is more likely to belong to Beijing than to Washington — at least that’s the view from four key U.S. allies.Swaths of the public in Canada, Germany, France and the U.K. have soured...

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‘Deportations have a different look after Minneapolis’: White House changes rhetoric on immigration

The Trump administration quietly shifted its immigration messaging in the weeks after its violent operation in Minneapolis that included the fatal shooting of two Americans, largely dropping mentio...

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The great Russian disconnect

Anton, a 44-year-old Russian soldier who heads a workshop responsible for repairing and supplying drones, was at his kitchen table when he learned last month that Elon Musk’s SpaceX had cut off acc...

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What’s Trump’s Phone Number Worth?

Washington’s hottest commodity is a 10-digit number that can swing financial markets, drive the news, and shift policy—but only if the timing is right.The White House has received reports in recent...

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It's not just oil. Here comes Hormuz inflation.

The war with Iran is driving up more than gasoline prices. It is beginning to hit semiconductors, medical imaging, backyard gardens and even children’s party balloons.While much of the world is foc...

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The Saviors review: Adam Scott and Danielle Deadwyler delve into suburban paranoia in a sharply funny thriller

We all tend to imagine ourselves as the hero of our stories. The trouble with that is it requires someone to be the villain. That way of thinking can get dangerous when tumbled into our personal we...

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Senate Republicans worry they’re losing ground in the midterms

Senate Republicans are growing anxious about the midterms.They once felt like they had a glidepath to keep or even grow their majority in November, unlike in the House, where GOP control is razor-t...

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The reviews are in. It's not looking good, America.

Many Americans give their country positive reviews. Some of the United States’ closest allies give far less flattering ratings.The POLITICO Poll, conducted across five countries, reveals a stark di...

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2028 Dem veteran? Uncle Sam wants you.

In the 15 days since President Donald Trump launched Operation Epic Fury on Iran, Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) is approaching nearly a dozen media appearances, offering his often visceral reaction ...

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Hasan Piker on Why the US Empire Is in Decline

We’re living in the imperial end times, argues Hasan Piker. With Trump entering a quagmire in Iran after having cast off America’s allies, a new era of belligerence, cruelty, and MAGA fascism looms...

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