Pluralistic: Strange Bedfellows and Long Knives (21 May 2025)

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Strange Bedfellows and Long Knives: My May 2025 Locus Magazine column.
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Pluralistic: Trump can't do ANYTHING for his base (12 May 2025)

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Trump can't do ANYTHING for his base: No oxen available for goring.
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Pluralistic: Mike Lee and Jim Jordan want to kill the law that bans companies from cheating you (29 Apr 2025)

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Mike Lee and Jim Jordan want to kill the law that bans companies from cheating you: Section 5 of the FTC Act is a century-old Swiss Army Knife for fighting corruption.
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Pluralistic: Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case (18 Apr 2025)

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Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case: A folder on his desktop called "mens rea."
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Pluralistic: Trump fought the law and Trump won (16 Apr 2025)

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Trump fought the law and Trump won: Administrative competence is trumped by total lawlessness.
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Pluralistic: Tariffs and monopolies (07 Apr 2025)

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Tariffs and monopolies: As American as eating all the apple pie.
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Pluralistic: End-stage capitalism (04 Apr 2025)

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End-stage capitalism: A transitional phase between feudalism and gangsterism.
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Pluralistic: What's wrong with tariffs (02 Apr 2025)

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What's wrong with tariffs: Trump's mirror-world policies fill the vacuum left by neoliberal gaslighting.
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Pluralistic: #RedForEd rides again in LA (29 Mar 2025)

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#RedForEd rides again in LA: Rest in power, Jane McAlevey.
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Pluralistic: Trump loves Big Tech (24 Mar 2025)

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Trump loves Big Tech: So much for the "Khanservatives."
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