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Jonathan Chait

@jonathanbchait.bsky.social
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Staff writer for the Atlantic. Messages with links are intended as prompts to read the linked story, not self-contained arguments substituting for the linked story.

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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Democratic Staffers Can’t Stop Complaining About Their Bosses
A New York Times report on Representative Mary Peltola’s management is revealing—about her younger employees’ self-regard.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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The Curious Left-Wing Argument Against New AI Regulations
The governing challenges raised by AI expose several unfortunate tendencies in the populist anti-monopoly movement.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Trump’s Attacks on the Media Are Self-Defeating
When the president asserts that all negative coverage is false, he seals his party off from necessary criticism.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Who Needs Regulation When Trump Is President?
The president is turning the charge of personalism into a promise.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
theatlantic.com
Trump Will Never Mail the $5,000 Checks
Deconstructing a policy proposal that makes no sense on any level
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
theatlantic.com
What Bush Understood That Trump Didn’t
The leaders of the American right have embraced the false idea that the United States is at war with Islam.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Trump’s Midterm Strategy Is All About Him
Traditionally, candidates laboring under the burden of an unpopular president seek to detach themselves from the national brand.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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J. D. Vance’s Disingenuous Defense of Tucker Carlson
The vice president’s relationship with a conspiracy theorist is, at bottom, a political partnership, not a personal friendship.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
theatlantic.com
Trump Meant It Literally When He Said He Was Taking the Oil
The Venezuela operation is the purest distillation of his amoral foreign policy.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
theatlantic.com
The Apocalyptic Style in Woke Thinking
Much of the climate movement, particularly its most radical elements, has pivoted to Palestine.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
theatlantic.com
How Karoline Leavitt Debased Her Job
In an administration where everybody’s role is to lie on television, the role of the press secretary is redundant.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
theatlantic.com
Abdul El-Sayed’s Hasan Piker Problem
In Michigan, the Democratic Senate candidate’s alliance with a hard-left streamer has become a political and moral crisis.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
theatlantic.com
Resistance 1.0 Was Not Crazy
The much-derided movement was right about Trump’s nature, and how to defeat him.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
theatlantic.com
What Trump Officials Mean by “Never”
The claim that the president could not possibly do something unethical marks a new frontier of impunity by the administration.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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Liberals Are Now Fighting a Two-Front War
Leftists like Abdul El-Sayed will take over the Democratic Party unless the center-left adapts to their rise.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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The Incoherence of the Iran Hawks
If bombing has limited, reversible effects, then it will have to continue indefinitely.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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America Isn’t Supposed to Have Political Prosecutions
The investigation of James Comey is vindictive and meritless—and unashamedly so.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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What Abdul El-Sayed’s Election in Michigan Would Prove
He and his allies are betting that an obsessively anti-Zionist left-wing politics can win everywhere.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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The DSA Isn’t Wrong About Everything
Abolish the Senate!
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This is a sympathetic Atlantic piece about a leftist who is also a Palestinian www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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A Palestinian American ‘Sex and the City’
Betty Shamieh’s debut novel is a rebellious rom-com.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
theatlantic.com
Susan Collins Is Not Concerned About Election Denial
Mortal threats to the republic are apparently a sideshow that distracts from cutting taxes, confirming judges, and deregulation.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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You Don’t Need to Vote for Socialists to Get Universal Health Care
Critics on the left and the right are, for different reasons, obscuring the Democratic Party’s long commitment to this cause.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
theatlantic.com
Trump’s Curious Affection for Communism
If the president fears Marxism, maybe he should stop mimicking its worst elements.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
theatlantic.com
With Graham Platner, Democrats Got Drunk on the Beer Test
He said there wouldn’t be any more scandals, but a new Politico report threatens to end his Senate campaign in Maine.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I appreciate the candor of critics who concede their principle is "don't punch left." Dispenses with the need to pretend they object to the substance of any individual act of left-criticism.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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The DSA’s Communist Revolution
The Democratic Socialists of America was formed in opposition to the very thing it has become.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
theatlantic.com
William Barr’s Dangerous Endorsement of Todd Blanche
Trump’s former attorney general proposes a Senate blessing of Trump’s threats to the rule of law.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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Why I Joined Team Algae
The greening of the Reflecting Pool is meaningless to everybody, except the president.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
theatlantic.com
If Only Trump Knew What Vance Is Doing
If the president is infallible, there must be some other explanation for his Iran defeat.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
theatlantic.com
All the Sad Hawks
Neoconservatives struggle to reconcile their hopes for Trump with the failure of his Iran war.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
theatlantic.com
All the Sad Hawks
Neoconservatives struggle to reconcile their hopes for Trump with the failure of his Iran war.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
theatlantic.com
Why July 4 Turned Into a Trump Rally
The president has never accepted that the head of state and the leader of the Republican Party are separate roles.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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Republicans Never Lose Elections, Apparently
Denying the legitimacy of vote-counting has become party doctrine.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
theatlantic.com
Donald Trump’s Superficiality Is Bone Deep
For the shallowest man ever to occupy the presidency, surface appeal is a guiding principle.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
theatlantic.com
John Cornyn Lost With His Boots Off
Like fellow Republicans exiled by the president, he still accepted Trump’s claim to inhabit the will of the party.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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The Antitrust Theory of Everything
Democrats are in thrall to the idea that corporate consolidation is America’s biggest, and maybe only, problem.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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The Strangest Thing Donald Trump Has Said in Some Time
Trump’s funniest riff ever?
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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Trump’s $1.8 Billion Slush Fund Is Worse Than Stealing
Recasting the January 6 insurrection as the work of heroic patriots remains the president’s highest priority.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
theatlantic.com
Donald Trump’s Inflationary Agenda
He was elected to tackle one problem. Instead, he’s made it worse.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
theatlantic.com
Big Brother Is ReTruthing You
Donald Trump is a victim of propaganda as much as he is a manipulator of it.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
In fact, Peterson does not even claim, let alone show, I misrepresented his remarks
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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Progressive Activists Are Sometimes on the Wrong Side of History
Thinking otherwise can enable the left’s worst instincts, as a speech at the University of Michigan’s commencement showed.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
theatlantic.com
How You Felt About Obama Saying ‘If I Had a Son’ Explains Everything
Would he look like Trayvon Martin?
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
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Donald Trump’s Disturbing Welcome for King Charles
At the White House, the president embraced the idea that the nation is an Anglo-Saxon one.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
theatlantic.com
Calling Trump a Tyrant Is Not a Call to Violence
Conservatives want to police how we talk about Trump—while excusing how the president talks about everyone else.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
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The Posting Will Continue Until Morale Improves
Trump’s Iran messaging seems desperate.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
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How Democrats Can Lose Michigan, Again
What Abdul El-Sayed doesn’t get about Trump
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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Israel Moderates Are Losing the Democratic Party
Their position has become untenable. But liberal Zionists can adapt.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
theatlantic.com
The Banality of MAGA-fication
A new book by an unremarkable Republican accidentally illuminates the devolution of the party.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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Pam Bondi Couldn’t Possibly Succeed
She did what Donald Trump wanted her to do. That turned out to be part of the problem.
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