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Will Sonia Sotomayor pull a last-minute Anthony Kennedy?
Seems unlikely, writes Stephen Robinson.
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Not just a spoiler. A conspirator
"The Kennedy voter and the Trump voter – our mutual enemy is Biden,” said Rita Palma, Robert F Kennedy Jr’s New York campaign director.
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Trump super fans are impossible to argue with because they don’t actually believe in logic
Helping people out of a cult begins by understanding why they are in it, writes Matthew Sheffield.
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No Labels is gone for now, but ‘centrism’ is never going away
Its vision of “unity” has always been a product of makebelieve.
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Kennedy’s fate is tied to Trump’s
Voters have entered a new stage in which they are remembering what the country was like the last time a demagogue was president.
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RFK Jr is the chaos factor
An anti-system candidate in an anti-system era, writes Lee Drutman.
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Third parties are a scam
They can’t win, but they can sap your will to make the world better.
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How a little girl named Virginia promotes Christian nationalism
Promoting white supremacy on the down-low, writes Claire Potter.
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The Republicans’ either/or trap
They ask us to choose God or trans people. Don’t fall for it.
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Trump world’s Easter parade of hate
How evangelical, writes Stephen Robinson.
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The important but overlooked detail in Trump’s bible sales pitch
It was a signal to believers of “the one true religion.”
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More Republicans are literally demonizing opponents
We laugh about the Satanic Panic, but we're living through something much worse, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.