Weekend Reading

Calling This Court "Supreme" Is Obeying in Advance

When will legal elites stop passing off tyranny in robes as the rule of law?

Oct 28 • 

Michael Podhorzer

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13

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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

300

50

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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

50

5

10

Shadows and Shadow Casters

Politics is about power.

Sep 17 • 

Michael Podhorzer

66

9

20

Monsters and Their Enablers

A Weekend Reading Reboot

Sep 10 • 

Michael Podhorzer

708

38

178

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

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24

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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

604

63

162

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

102

4

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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

13

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

52

The Courts Will Not Save Us

We must resist the learned helplessness of judicial supremacy.

Mar 3 • 

Michael Podhorzer

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214

578

February 2025

Oligarchs Understand Power. Do We?

Unions make us strong.

Feb 6 • 

Michael Podhorzer

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