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July 7, 2021

Trump’s Social Media Lawsuit Is Doomed to Fail (and Work Exactly as Planned)

The former president’s class-action suit against Twitter and Facebook is a typically ham-fisted grab for power and money. It can die in the courts and still serve him well.

by Jacob Silverman

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Fox News Adds Climate Coverage to Its Portfolio of Destruction

Cable news’s traditional home for climate denialism and political radicalism is going to make a right-wing run at the Weather Channel.

by Alex Shephard

How Stephen Breyer Is Helping to Destroy the Norms He Claims to Cherish

The Republican Party will use the justice’s sentimental beliefs about democracy against him.

by Michael Tomasky

If You Want to Get Ahead in the GOP, You’d Better Support Trump’s Big Lie

Aspiring Republicans once had to sign Grover Norquist’s no-new-taxes pledge. Now they must be devoted to the former president’s perfidies.

by Alex Shephard

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Samuel Alito’s Boundless Contempt for Democracy

Fully unmoored from legal reasoning, the justice’s voting rights ruling is cynical and un-American.

by Matt Ford

When Seas Burn and Governments Do Nothing, Community Action Is the Only Way

Three days after its pipeline leak set the Gulf of Mexico ablaze, Pemex got a new offshore oil gig.

by Nick Martin

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