Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine

Jonathan Chait

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  • The Cut
  • Mother Jones
  • Vulture

Past articles by Jonathan:

Challenging Biden Is Risky. So Is Nominating Him.

A serious primary challenge from a mainstream Democrat could test and strengthen Joe Biden’s reelection campaign in 2024. And it’s a risky strategy to assume Biden’s dismal approval ratings don’t matter and that his health won’t decline. → Read More

Mitt Romney and the Doomed Nobility of Republican Moderation

Mitt Romney announced his retirement from the Senate. As Massachusetts governor, Romney invented the model for Obamacare, became a critic of Donald Trump and supporter of impeachment, and couldn’t arrest the party’s authoritarian lurch. → Read More

Republicans Already Told Us Impeachment Is Revenge for Trump

House Republicans began an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden. Donald Trump and his supporters have been threatening to impeach Biden as revenge for Trump’s impeachment since 2019 over the same charges. → Read More

Where Is the Republican Soul-searching for Getting COVID Wrong?

Anthony Fauci and Randi Weingarten are facing tough questions for their positions on COVID, some of which were wrong. But conservatives like Donald Trump denied the pandemic death toll and are abandoning the COVID vaccine. → Read More

Rage-filled Samuel Alito Baffled His Fairness Is Being Questioned

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito gave an interview with the Wall Street Journal in which he said he knows who the Dobbs leaker is, won’t say what evidence he has, and demands the Court’s fairness not be questioned. → Read More

The Left-Wing Case for Tucker Carlson Is Wrong

Tucker Carlson mixed racist rhetoric with populist attacks on elites and global finance. Some progressives find positive aspects in this rhetoric, but Carlson’s brand of anti-capitalism is distinctly right wing. → Read More

The Terrifying Threat That No Labels Will Re-elect Trump

“No Labels,” a third party group trying to obtain ballot access, says it won’t a spoiler candidacy in 2024. But the group’s own polling shows it would just help Donald Trump, and its promises are not reassuring. → Read More

The Strange Trials of Our First Criminal President

Donald Trump’s indictment in Manhattan by District Attorney Alvin Bragg, reportedly for lying about hush money paid to Stormy Daniels, ushers in a new phase in Trump’s political career. He’s a crook, but the merits of the case remain to be seen. → Read More

The Republican Debt-Ceiling Hostage Scheme Is Collapsing

House Republicans refuse to lift the debt ceiling without spending cuts but can’t agree on what those cuts should be. They want to negotiate anyway, but that is not how extortion works. You need to name a demand. → Read More

How Trump Can Use Social Security and Medicare to Destroy DeSantis

Forget Ukraine. Retirement programs are the real killer. → Read More

Why Do We Have Presidential Medals for Celebrities?

At the White House Tuesday evening, Joe Biden bestowed a National Medal for the Arts upon several famous and successful entertainers, including Bruce Springsteen, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, and Mindy Kaling. Why do these awards exist? → Read More

Ron DeSantis Thrills Tucker Carlson by Taking Pro-Russian Stance

Ron DeSantis gave Tucker Carlson a statement saying the United States has no vital interest in deterring Russian aggression, calling the war a “territorial dispute,” opposing sanctions, and saying military aid is hurting U.S. border security. → Read More

The Republican Party May Not Be Fascist, But It’s Definitely Getting Fasci-er

The left-wing case for downplaying authoritarianism is not convincing. → Read More

Trump Blurts Out ‘Peace’ Plan to Hand Russia Chunks of Ukraine

Donald trump, in a radio interview with Sean Hannity, says the reason Vladimir Putin wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine if he was president was that he would have made a deal to give Russia control of parts of Ukrainian territory. → Read More

CPAC Speaker Michael Knowles Urges Eradication of Trans Rights

Michael Knowles, a Daily Wire commentator, former host of Ted Cruz’s podcast appeared at CPAC where he called for the “eradication” of transgenderism. Knowles’ position on trans rights is rapidly becoming normalized. → Read More

DeSantis Promises Florida Will Control Disney Content

Ron Desantis appointed cronies to a board overseeing Disney, and promised it would block “woke ideology.” “I think all of these board members very much would like to see the type of entertainment that all families can appreciate,” he said. → Read More

DeSantis Promises Florida Will Control Disney Content

Ron Desantis appointed cronies to a board overseeing Disney, and promised it would block “woke ideology.” “I think all of these board members very much would like to see the type of entertainment that all families can appreciate,” he said. → Read More

The Surprisingly Contrarian Case Against Lying About Science

The philosophical debate behind the lab-leak question. → Read More

Ron DeSantis Goes Full Trump on Ukraine

Ron DeSantis attacked the Biden administration for a “blank check” policy in Ukraine, dismissed the threat posed by Russia, and suggested helping Ukraine has come at the expense of defending the border. He is throwing in with America First Trumpists. → Read More

Tucker Carlson Tried to Get Fox News Reporter Fired for Fact-Checking Trump

Dominion Voting Systems is suing Fox News for knowingly broadcasting lies that its machines rigged the 2020 election. Dominion obtained internal Fox News communications revealing its awareness that conspiracy theories targeting Dominion were false. → Read More