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Today: "A New Report Reveals the Real Reason Democrats Lost in 2024" Plus, The self-delusions of Olivia Nuzzi’s American Canto; Zohran Mamdani’s first big housing test; firewood banks are a sign of collapse; and more...

 
 

Firewood Banks Aren’t Inspiring. They’re a Sign of Collapse.

Rural communities are banding together to chop firewood so that people in need can heat their homes. This shouldn’t be necessary.

By Sean Carlton

 

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Zohran Mamdani’s First Big Housing Test Is Already Here

The mayor-elect is about to inherit a messy bankruptcy affecting thousands of rent-stabilized New Yorkers. He’s also inheriting a growing tenants’ movement ready to fight back.

By Sam Russek

 

The Self-Delusions of Olivia Nuzzi’s American Canto

Her memoir frequently shows an indifference toward truth, falsity, and meaning. In that way, it’s an artifact of our age.

By Christopher Hooks

 

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Can the "Sistine Chapel of the New Deal" Be Saved From Trump?

Precious murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, and others are even more endangered than we knew.

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A New Report Reveals the Real Reason Democrats Lost in 2024

It wasn’t because Biden voters shifted to Trump—but because so many of them stayed home. Here’s how Democrats can motivate them once more.

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MAGA’s State-by-State Plot to Butcher Democracy

By David Daley

Political insiders, GOP legislators and governors, the president, even the Supreme Court—they’re all in on the flagrantly unconstitutional conspiracy to destroy democracy by the way they draw lines on a map.

 

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Mike Johnson Finally Reveals GOP’s Health Care Plan—and It’s Rough

Johnson presented his caucus with 10 ideas but told them just to pick a few to implement.

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Sorry, but You Had to Be an Idiot to Believe Trump Could Lower Prices

The president’s disastrous affordability rally merely reraises the question: How could anyone have fallen for his campaign promises in the first place?

By Michael Tomasky

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