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Vance Has a Solid Lead for the GOP Nomination in Trump’s Hardcore Populist Base, ISMA Survey Finds
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Last week’s Republican gathering in Dallas was billed as a “Trumpapalooza,” a bow to President Trump’s keynote and closing speeches and his desire to tie congressional Republicans’ 20...
Trump’s Trade War with Canada Will Make America Backward Again
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At a moment in the American Revolutionary War when things seemed bleakest for George Washington’s troops, in the dark winter that follo...
The Trump Administration Is Encouraging Illegal Acts by Government Employees and Agencies to Advance the President’s Agenda: An Executive Watch Roundup
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We launched Executive Watch early in Trump’s second term, and it has been meticulously documenting this White House’s illicit actions ever since. Below is our biweekly selection of new entries. Bookmark th...
Liberals Need to Loosen Up to Play the Social Media Game Against Authoritarians: A Conversation with Renée DiResta
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Twenty-Five Years Later: Our Staff Remembers 9/11
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What Might Have Been, and What Wouldn't Have Changed
On this fateful day 25 years ago, I was driving to The Detroit News, on whose conservative editorial board I had been a writer for about six years. As usual, I had th...
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Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Persuasion Author, The Identity Trap
Senior editor at The UnPopulist.
Thomas Shull is editor-at-large of The UnPopulist and survey research director for the Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism.
Debasish Roy Chowdhury is co-author of "To Kill A Democracy: India's Passage to Despotism" (OUP/Pan Macmillan)
Freelance journalist and contributing columnist for the Chicago Tribune. I always heed my doubts.
Ilya Somin is Professor of Law at George Mason University. He is the author of Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom, and Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter.
Senior Fellow at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, furniture maker, drone pilot, fan of classic social theory.
Current Counsel at Protect Democracy and former federal civil servant
Dr. Tim Ganser trained as a political economist, then left academia for the business world and retains a strong interest in politics and economics.
Justin Florence co-founded Protect Democracy and helps lead the organization’s work to advance its mission, including legal, policy, advocacy and communications strategies.
Grant Tudor is a policy advocate with Protect Democracy, where he develops and advocates for a range of reforms to shore up our democratic institutions.
Building a liberal movement. Comms at Liberalism.org. Board at Project Liberal. Husband and father. Views my own.
President of R Street.
Constitutional law professor and former litigator. Author of When Islam Is Not a Religion and The Politics of Vulnerability (Pegasus/Simon & Schuster). Writing on religious freedom, constitutional rights, and belonging. Founder @altMuslimah
Notes on AI, Democracy and China. Documentary: "Who's afraid of Nathan Law?" Book: "Freedom: how we lose it and how we fight back"
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