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After Ten Months: What We've Learned About Power, Policing, and the Word We Hesitate to Use
Ten months into Trump's second term, we have enough evidence to test the term "fascist" in practice. Not by tallying tweets, but by looking at state power: who it targets, how it moves, and what it leaves behind. Three arenas tell the story: immigration enforcement, elections, and deployments as leverage.
Oct 31, 202518 min
governanceInventing Tradition: Originalism as Judicial Activism
Call it the constitutionalist's promise: decide by text, history, and structure rather than by vibe or partisan appetite. In principle, that's healthy. In practice, on the current Supreme Court, the methods deliver outcomes that lean the same direction over and over—and create a new vision of the.
Sep 1, 202518 min