Joyce Vance
Joyce Vance is a newsletter-driven opinion and analysis outlet focused primarily on U.S. politics, government, and the rule of law.
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- Sep 26, 2026
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Some Chickens (opens the original)
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It’s very good to be a chicken. I have been told it’s particularly good to be a Vance family chicken. And I believe it.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1410" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SZE9!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,f
What Happened to Liberal Democracy? (opens the original)
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Nobel laureate economist Daron Acemoglu joined us live this morning to discuss his new book, <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/what-happened-to-liberal-democracy-remaking-a-politics-of-shared-prosperity-daron-acemoglu/2c5194fdfe6a62bc?ean=9798217182169&next=t&next=t&affiliate=8899&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=dsa_nonbrand&utm_content={adgroupname}&utm_term=aud-1187518993648:dsa-19959388920&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=12440232635&gbraid=0AAAAACfld41AmUr3YkUzkv-9xdk21Zexk&gcli
King Trump: Privileges, Not Rights (opens the original)
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We’ve speculated that Trump’s “ban” on CNN, MS NOW, and Politico was not a policy that had been thought out in advance, but rather something the President launched off the cuff on Truth Social. It looks more and more like that’s the case. It’s not just that Trump TV was launched that same day with little more than a camera and bad audio. Shortly before midnight Tuesday, the government filed its response to the journalists’ motion for a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the ban. But
Listen to the Hearing in CNN et al v. Trump Today (opens the original)
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Last night, the court put an entry on its docket, advising the public that it could access the hearing scheduled for Wednesday afternoon in the case brought by CNN, MSNOW, and Politico against the Trump administration for banning them from the White House grounds. I’ll be teaching at 3:30 ET tomorrow, so we’ll flip our usual procedure; you listen to the hearing and let me know how it goes. I’ll catch up after I’m out of class and can see a transcript.<span
A Bad Tuesday in Maine if Your Name is Susan Collins (opens the original)
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ProPublica kicked off our day with reporting on Susan Collins and on corruption in Trump’s DOJ. This is the headline: “The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way.”The story begins with Susan Collins back in 2019, trailing in the polls and up for reelection the following year. Then, the head of her super PAC, Scott Reed, met with “three executives from a Hawaiian defense contractor, Navatek” at a Corner Bakery in Washington, D.
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