HeyJaredJonathan Chait
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- Sep 14, 2026
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Who Needs Regulation When Trump Is President? (opens the original)
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One consistent complaint against the Trump administration is that it is imposing personalist rule, in which the whims of the leader override the law. Now Donald Trump has come out forcefully against regulating artificial intelligence—and his argument is based almost explicitly on the superiority of his omniscience over any formal legal process. He is not so much refuting the charge of personalism as turning it into a promise. “The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART
Trump Will Never Mail the $5,000 Checks (opens the original)
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Donald Trump’s new promise to give a $5,000 check to every adult American citizen if Republicans win the midterm elections may be an effort to answer a variant of an age-old riddle: Can Trump devise a policy so ill-conceived that even Trump’s intelligence is insulted? Candidates often make inducements part of their campaign pitch. One obvious peculiarity of this plan is that Trump’s party already controls both chambers of Congress. Why, then, should the bonus checks be contingent on voters givin
What Bush Understood That Trump Didn’t (opens the original)
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The current New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has affronted one of his predecessors, Rudy Giuliani, by taking the inflammatory step of deciding to attend the city’s 9/11 commemoration. “It offends me,” Giuliani proclaimed earlier this week on Newsmax. One might suspect that the nature of Mamdani’s offense lay in his being a politician who is associating himself with a day that Giuliani prefers to associate with Giuliani. But the former mayor proceeded to lay out a much darker rationale. “They
Does Trump Want Republicans to Win the Midterms? (opens the original)
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Is Donald Trump trying to help Republicans win the midterm elections? The obvious answer to this question is yes, of course, simply because all political leaders benefit from their party winning elections. Yet several of Trump’s actions throw this normally perfunctory question into at least some doubt. Traditionally, candidates laboring under the burden of an unpopular president seek to detach themselves from the national brand. Trump is making this impossible. He has launched a national ad camp
J. D. Vance’s Disingenuous Defense of Tucker Carlson (opens the original)
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When J. D. Vance was asked at a press conference on Thursday about his relationship with Tucker Carlson, the media personality and ultra-right-wing conspiracy theorist, he displayed a surprising side of himself: human, vulnerable, almost touchingly naive. “Tucker is a friend, despite the fact that we disagree on a number of things,” the vice president said. “And I’m not going to play the game where I throw friends under the bus because I have political disagreements with them. I think that is a
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