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Simple Justice
Is There A Mandate For Retribution?
Hakeem Jeffries, expected to be the next Speaker of the House of Representatives, made it clear that it was not his intention to use his majority over the next two…
Simple Justice
What Comes Next?
At the end of the movie, The Candidate, Robert Redford utters the prophetic words “What do we do now?” Indeed. Trump was crushed yesterday. Trump, of course, blames everyone and…
Balkinization
Thoughts on Progressive Ethnic Politics and El-Sayed
By markgraberbalkin-blogspot-com
Contemporary Democrats might benefit from thinking about how Democrats built winning coalitions during the New Deal and Great Society despite significant ethnic differences within progressive movements. Winning Democrats of the…
Althouse
"The Senate race in Michigan… will test moderate and independent voters’ appetite for a combative brand of unalloyed progressivism."
By Ann Althouse
"The party’s activist class believes Dr. El-Sayed’s success next week would establish a proof point that left-wing populism is a winning message, even in swing states. He has embraced an…
Althouse
"France has beautiful days ahead of it… its recovery begins here in Orléans. This is the symbol of the fight against stupidity, against abandonment, against resignation."
By Ann Althouse
Said Marine Le Pen, addressing supporters of France’s "far-right" National Rally in Orléans (where Joan of Arc defended France in 1429):
Verfassungsblog
Politisierung der Wissenschaft
By Uwe Volkmann
Wenn eine Partei wie die AfD gegen die Wissenschaft, wie sie derzeit an den Universitäten betrieben wird, den Vorwurf erhebt, sie folge einer politischen Agenda, stört sie offensichtlich weniger das…
Balkinization
Are we Experiencing a Constitutional Revolution?
By markgraberbalkin-blogspot-com
Some thoughts on constitutional revolutions in American history, whether Americans are experiencing a constitutional revolution at present, and what would have to happen for the attempted Trump constitutional revolution to…
Balkinization
Response to Our Readers
By guestbloggerbalkin-blogspot-com
For the Balkinization symposium on Mark Tushnet and Bojan Bugaric, Constitutionalism and Its Discontents (University of Chicago Press, 2026).Mark Tushnet and Bojan BugaricAs several contributors to this book review symposium…
Althouse
"… Americans love to turn to women when the house is burning down. Social scientists call it the glass cliff — the phenomenon in which women are recruited to lead failing companies."
By Ann Althouse
"President Trump’s businessman brand of governance has many Americans feeling this nation is failing. I suppose the dumpster fire of climate denialism, political corruption and general scamminess of, well, everything…
Althouse
Trump at the funeral.
By Ann Althouse
President Trump whips out Tic Tacs and hands them out at Lindsey Graham’s funeral: pic.twitter.com/yYhDG1mAoh— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) July 28, 2026 Trump takes issue with the Lindsey Graham eulogy he's…