Weekend Reading

Monsters and Their Enablers

A Weekend Reading Reboot

Sep 10 • 

Michael Podhorzer

512

30

June 2025

Trump’s Split with Leonard Leo Is No Victory for the Rule of Law

The enemy of your enemy is not always your friend.

Jun 10 • 

Michael Podhorzer

, 

Alex Aronson

, and 

Court Accountability Action

178

20

May 2025

The Re-Emerging Anti-MAGA Majority

If voters had known in November what they know now—which could and should have been possible—Trump would have lost.

May 21 • 

Michael Podhorzer

536

61

April 2025

The Trump Regime’s War on Working People: The First 100 Days

How Unions are Resisting Authoritarian Attacks on Workers’ Rights—and Why It Matters for Everyone

Apr 28 • 

Michael Podhorzer

99

4

From “Deportation” to Abduction

How the media and consultant class’s poll-washing enabled the abduction of Kilmar Abrego Garcia—and what comes next

Apr 17 • 

Michael Podhorzer

69

4

March 2025

America’s Second “Redemption”

The accelerating MAGA assault on democratic freedoms echoes America’s first “Redemption,” a backlash to Reconstruction after the Civil War…

Mar 18 • 

Michael Podhorzer

188

17

The Courts Will Not Save Us

We must resist the learned helplessness of judicial supremacy.

Mar 3 • 

Michael Podhorzer

1,673

217

February 2025

Oligarchs Understand Power. Do We?

Unions make us strong.

Feb 6 • 

Michael Podhorzer

607

29

Don’t Praise in Advance

A Cure for Mad Surrender Disease

Feb 4 • 

Michael Podhorzer

379

37

January 2025

Change No One Would Have Believed

Audacious hopes recede in the rear view mirror

Jan 20 • 

Michael Podhorzer

290

26

Virtual Event Thursday, Jan. 16: The U.S. Judiciary and Democratic Backsliding

Join me and two panels of top experts to discuss how captured courts enable autocracy, at home and abroad.

Jan 15 • 

Michael Podhorzer

28

4

Outrunning the Bear

A recording from my live conversation with Chris Cillizza

Jan 10 • 

Michael Podhorzer

 and 

Chris Cillizza

93

5

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