Jonathan Chait

What Are Conservatives Trying to Conserve?

Ira Glasser | Posted 05.24.2012

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Chait's emphasis on demographic shifts is powerful and mainly on target, but there is a broader historical context to his analysis that complements, extends and better explains the hysteria dominating the current rhetoric of the Republican party.

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Guess Who Obama Was Channeling In Kansas

Jim Sleeper | Posted 02.07.2012

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You really can't get more egg on your face than Barack Obama's neoliberal Beltway apologists have after his big speech in Kansas. That's because a portion of the speech reads as if the president were channeling the pundits' nemesis, Drew Westen.

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New York Magazine Ramps Up 2012 Coverage

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 12.04.2011

NEW YORK -- On Nov. 21 New York magazine hit newsstands with dueling pieces, one titled "How the GOP Went Mad," by former Bush speechwriter David Frum...

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As Obama Mishandles the Economy, Pundits Misjudge the Politics

Jim Sleeper | Posted 01.08.2012

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About bare-knuckled politics, Beltway commentators have little to say. Ezra Klein gives us the inevitable, inexorable, crippling worldview in which the people don't exist, except in Pew polls.

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Common at the White House: What's All the Fuss About?

Danny Groner | Posted 07.15.2011

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Jon Stewart will debate Bill O'Reilly tomorrow night about the Obama administration's decision to invite rapper Common to participate in a poetry reading at the White House last week.

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Ideology, Politics and Guns

Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jonathan Chait's description of conservative economic reasoning is equally true of "gun rights" reasoning: "It begins with the conclusion and marches back through the premises."

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A Progressive Primary to Push for Jobs and End the Wars

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011

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The worst thing we must now face is that the 2010 election is likely a preview of 2012, unless some dramatic new element is introduced into our national politics that changes the character of national debate.

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On False Equivalencies

Jonathan Weiler | Posted 05.25.2011

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The left side of the political divide relishes attacking progressives in a way that ensures that the boundaries of political discourse will be policed consistent with an information environment slanted in favor of the right-wing.

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Sarah Palin Isn't Alaska's First Feminist

AlaskaDispatch.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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On the whole, I'd say Alaska is the kind of place where people don't tend to cling to outmoded ideas of what makes a woman a woman. Everybody looks equally silly in chest waders.

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Hypocrisy Now!: The Pro-Israel Crowd's Sins of Omission

Sasha Polakow-Suransky | Posted 05.25.2011

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In their zeal to demonize Goldstone, some Israel defenders miss the point that it is possible to condemn the Goldstone Report without promoting a hypocritical campaign of character assassination.

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Kent Conrad's Repeated Explanation Of Budget Reconciliation Not Good Enough For Mike Allen

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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No discussion of the media's ongoing battle to understand basic seventh-grade civics would be complete without enjoying Jonathan Chait's post in which...

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The Washington Post: Always Fighting the Wrong War

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

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If the Washington Post will outsource financial reporting to an anti-spending conservative, why wouldn't they outsource their health reform reporting to ... insurance companies?

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Right On Cue, The White House Press Corps Awakens From Its Bush Slumber

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

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Beltway reporters have tossed aside the blanket of calm that had descended on them during the previous administration, a blanket of calm that defined their Bush coverage.

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Chait Notes Lack Of Outrage At Obama Dinner

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jonathan Chait, writing for The New Republic, notes that President-Elect Barack Obama's decision to have dinner with a room of conservative writers di...

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