What Comes After Mistrust? Liberalism Needs a Theory of Repair
Liberals need practical approaches to earn trust through visible, messy, and ongoing responsiveness.
How the Court Built Trump's Imperial Presidency (Neon Liberalism #87, with Josh Chafetz)
Supreme Court rulings stretching back decades laid the groundwork for expanded executive power.
Editor's Notes: Karoline Leavitt Was a Sloppy Hack
The war on professionalism will continue even with the departure of one of its most visible soldiers.
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Institutional Reform That Can Be Done With a Simple Majority in Congress
Chapter 2 (pp. 8–12) from The Reconstruction Papers.
Natalie Harp and the American Don (Juan)
Even as the right cheers Trump dispensing punishment to their enemies, they crave to be disciplined themselves.
The Voter Roll Purge That Helped End Trinamool Rule
Are elections more safely run by one accountable body, or by 10,000 uncoordinated ones?
Liberal Currents Live: Natalie Harp Is the Most Powerful Woman in the World
And that's why we have to talk about Natalie.
The Reasonable Liberal
We must begin the process of making our political rivals not just more legible but human in a way we can also recognize in ourselves.
Editor’s Notes: Liberals Need to Know the Reading to Do
Let’s put some thought toward making a better canon of central works in liberalism.
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Liberal Currents Live: Natalie Harp Is the Most Powerful Woman in the World
And that's why we have to talk about Natalie.
Midterm Madness: Political Ads from Michigan to Texas (Half the Answer #98, with Jonathan M. Katz)
Floating in a hideous soup of extremism, slander, bad art, and dirty dealings.
The Moral Case for Dynamism (Neon Liberalism #86, with Sonja Trauss)
Finding the space between articulating a radical liberal idealism and meeting people where they are.