Weekend Reading

Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight

“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.

Oct 4 • 

Anat Shenker-Osorio

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September 2025

Jimmy Kimmel Live! Lives On While the Oligarchs' Power Grab Rolls On

What the Kimmel dustup tells us about the demise of free speech

Sep 30 • 

Michael Podhorzer

48

5

Shadows and Shadow Casters

Politics is about power.

Sep 17 • 

Michael Podhorzer

66

9

Monsters and Their Enablers

A Weekend Reading Reboot

Sep 10 • 

Michael Podhorzer

706

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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

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Alex Aronson

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Court Accountability Action

208

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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

600

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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

101

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

71

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

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The Courts Will Not Save Us

We must resist the learned helplessness of judicial supremacy.

Mar 3 • 

Michael Podhorzer

1,674

216

February 2025

Oligarchs Understand Power. Do We?

Unions make us strong.

Feb 6 • 

Michael Podhorzer

607

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Don’t Praise in Advance

A Cure for Mad Surrender Disease

Feb 4 • 

Michael Podhorzer

379

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