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The Editors' Chat #10

Ideological axes, Venezuela, Greenland, what to pitch us, and more.

Half the Answer #61: The Year We Lost Everything: Appraising 2025 and Fighting Back in 2026

Trent and Caitlin ask Evan Urquhart about his 2025 wrap up piece on Assigned Media: "The Year We Lost Everything." They discuss the need to take stock of where we are on trans rights, autonomy and the various freedoms we hold dear, and the value of acknowledging that

After Trump, the Flood

On the ending of things and the need for post-diluvian politics.

FDR’s Four Freedoms and the Second Bill of Rights

The social welfare state, winning World War II, and building the liberal order after Trump.

Liberalism Did Not Fail, Conservatism Did

We are moving from an ideologically multipolar world, to a bipolar one.

We Have Organized, and More Must Do So

Minneapolis has shown us the path.

Half the Answer #60: 2025's Word of the Year

Caitlin and Trent chat with linguistics scholars Savi Namboodiripad and Daniel Midgley on what word most exemplifies 2025. Was it a new coinage? A pre-existing word that gained a new meaning or usage this year? A word that seemed to be on everybody's lips in 2025? Half the

Neon Liberalism #60: Minneapolis Under Siege

Samantha and guest Will Stancil talk the murder of Renée Good and the Trump administration's larger assault on Minneapolis. Will is on the front lines of monitoring ICE in Minneapolis, working with his neighborhood rapid reaction group, and remains a vital commentator and activist in this disturbing time.

Half the Answer #59: Understanding Stephen Miller

Trent and Caitlin catch up with Greg Sargent from The New Republic about his recent piece exploring the family history and ideology of Stephen Miller. How did the product of Russian Jewish refugees come to see today's refugees as incapable of integration in American society? What are the

The New Epstein Island Is Right in Your Pocket: It’s Time to Abandon Elon Musk’s Paradise of Abuse

It has long been time to leave X. Now, it’s essential.

So, How’s the Occupation Going for You?

What’s it like to live in America with a domestic military occupation? Minnesota has the answer.

Cancel Culture Goes MAGA

MAGA's campaign of government censorship and repression is an assault on fundamental free speech values.

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Half the Answer #58: The U.S. in Venezuela: The International Community and the Donroe Doctrine

Caitlin and Trent speak with Mark Copelovitch, a political science professor from University of Wisconsin–Madison. They discuss the problem of a world power going rogue, the lack of viable responses for countries like Venezuela and Denmark, and the costs to international trust when the US is so unreliable. Half

Return of the Silver Shirts

In ICE's invasion of Minneapolis, an echo of a dark past.

Remigration, Recolonization, Rechristianization, Restoration: How Some of America’s Most Extreme Christian Nationalists See the New (Old) World Order

On the right's masculine, white nationalist, and theocratic framework.

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Neon Liberalism #59: Venezuela and the State of American Strategy

Join Samantha and Giselle Donnelly, foreign policy analyst and American Enterprise Institute alumna, as they discuss the recent attack on Venezuela. Does this reflect a considered strategy? Or multiple factions "working towards the sleepy Führer"? Can we make predictions about future American foreign policy, or is it all

Setting a Fire by the Powder Keg

Trump, Miller, and ICE are playing with fire and we cannot help them stick the blame elsewhere.

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Half the Answer #57: The U.S. in Venezuela: Why Is Corporate Media Being So Weird?

Trent and Caitlin check in with The Handbasket’s Marisa Kabas about the year that has been the first week of 2026. What are we doing in Venezuela, and why is corporate media being so weird about it? What are the ethics of publishing scoops that involve military actions? Why

The Spirit of the Laws

The Constitution is not in heaven. Without honorable and virtuous public officials, constitutional limits have no meaning.

Murder in Minneapolis

What this violent crime perpetrated by agents of the state means for the next three years.

We Need to Get Off the Defensive About Immigration

Free movement is a fantastic thing, and we should say it.

To My Students on the Anniversary of January 6

The political violence of the Trump era is all today's teenagers have ever known.