Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 3halso, local rule is not exactly a bulwark against segregation 010
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026taking even a moment to google anything I've written about Rufo previously would have easily dispelled the notion I admire his career before now 160
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026At no point in this column do I claim Rufo's previous stance was sincere. 5131
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 03/10/2026theatlantic.comThe Mainstreaming of Anti-Indian BigotryA Republican schism over a social-media post by a Texas politician revealed that the party’s defense of a color-blind meritocracy has its limits. 1592
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026theatlantic.comDemocratic Staffers Can’t Stop Complaining About Their BossesA New York Times report on Representative Mary Peltola’s management is revealing—about her younger employees’ self-regard. 584
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 21/09/2026theatlantic.comThe Curious Left-Wing Argument Against New AI RegulationsThe governing challenges raised by AI expose several unfortunate tendencies in the populist anti-monopoly movement. 222
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 20/09/2026theatlantic.comTrump’s Attacks on the Media Are Self-DefeatingWhen the president asserts that all negative coverage is false, he seals his party off from necessary criticism. 0101
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 14/09/2026theatlantic.comWho Needs Regulation When Trump Is President?The president is turning the charge of personalism into a promise. 050
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 12/09/2026theatlantic.comTrump Will Never Mail the $5,000 ChecksDeconstructing a policy proposal that makes no sense on any level 95912
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 10/09/2026theatlantic.comWhat Bush Understood That Trump Didn’tThe leaders of the American right have embraced the false idea that the United States is at war with Islam. 330
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 09/09/2026theatlantic.comTrump’s Midterm Strategy Is All About HimTraditionally, candidates laboring under the burden of an unpopular president seek to detach themselves from the national brand. 081
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 05/09/2026theatlantic.comJ. D. Vance’s Disingenuous Defense of Tucker CarlsonThe vice president’s relationship with a conspiracy theorist is, at bottom, a political partnership, not a personal friendship. 2234
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 01/09/2026theatlantic.comTrump Meant It Literally When He Said He Was Taking the OilThe Venezuela operation is the purest distillation of his amoral foreign policy. 392
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 31/08/2026theatlantic.comThe Apocalyptic Style in Woke ThinkingMuch of the climate movement, particularly its most radical elements, has pivoted to Palestine. 1581
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Right, but since the specifics strongly suggest his actual proposal is to only read pundits who flatter the author's priors, I don't think they should be set aside. 010
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Fine, Yglesias sucks, Douthat sucks, Ezra Klein sucks, I suck... is there anybody who ever criticizes the left who don't suck? I suspect the answer is no because Nolan simply hates criticism of the left. 150
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Would be more persuasive if 1) He could name a single writer who challenges his views he thinks doesn't suck, and 2) He urged readers not to post about writers whose work they aren't reading (which is an epidemic of the social media age). 310
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 28/08/2026theatlantic.comHow Karoline Leavitt Debased Her JobIn an administration where everybody’s role is to lie on television, the role of the press secretary is redundant. 2113
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 28/08/2026theatlantic.comAbdul El-Sayed’s Hasan Piker ProblemIn Michigan, the Democratic Senate candidate’s alliance with a hard-left streamer has become a political and moral crisis. 3273
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 20/08/2026theatlantic.comResistance 1.0 Was Not CrazyThe much-derided movement was right about Trump’s nature, and how to defeat him. 290
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 17/08/2026theatlantic.comWhat 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. 0101
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 05/08/2026theatlantic.comLiberals Are Now Fighting a Two-Front WarLeftists like Abdul El-Sayed will take over the Democratic Party unless the center-left adapts to their rise. 1160
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 31/07/2026theatlantic.comThe Incoherence of the Iran HawksIf bombing has limited, reversible effects, then it will have to continue indefinitely. 050
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 30/07/2026theatlantic.comAmerica Isn’t Supposed to Have Political ProsecutionsThe investigation of James Comey is vindictive and meritless—and unashamedly so. 1164
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 30/07/2026theatlantic.comWhat Abdul El-Sayed’s Election in Michigan Would ProveHe and his allies are betting that an obsessively anti-Zionist left-wing politics can win everywhere. 1253
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 22/07/2026theatlantic.comThe DSA Isn’t Wrong About EverythingAbolish the Senate! 440
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 21/07/2026This is a sympathetic Atlantic piece about a leftist who is also a Palestinian www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...theatlantic.comA Palestinian American ‘Sex and the City’Betty Shamieh’s debut novel is a rebellious rom-com. 061
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 17/07/2026theatlantic.comSusan Collins Is Not Concerned About Election DenialMortal threats to the republic are apparently a sideshow that distracts from cutting taxes, confirming judges, and deregulation. 3165
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 15/07/2026theatlantic.comYou Don’t Need to Vote for Socialists to Get Universal Health CareCritics on the left and the right are, for different reasons, obscuring the Democratic Party’s long commitment to this cause. 8174
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 08/07/2026theatlantic.comTrump’s Curious Affection for CommunismIf the president fears Marxism, maybe he should stop mimicking its worst elements. 1102
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 06/07/2026theatlantic.comWith Graham Platner, Democrats Got Drunk on the Beer TestHe said there wouldn’t be any more scandals, but a new Politico report threatens to end his Senate campaign in Maine. 392
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I 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. 9131
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 01/07/2026theatlantic.comThe DSA’s Communist RevolutionThe Democratic Socialists of America was formed in opposition to the very thing it has become. 18122
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 26/06/2026theatlantic.comWilliam Barr’s Dangerous Endorsement of Todd BlancheTrump’s former attorney general proposes a Senate blessing of Trump’s threats to the rule of law. 2123
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 24/06/2026theatlantic.comWhy I Joined Team AlgaeThe greening of the Reflecting Pool is meaningless to everybody, except the president. 0140
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 18/06/2026theatlantic.comIf Only Trump Knew What Vance Is DoingIf the president is infallible, there must be some other explanation for his Iran defeat. 5317
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 17/06/2026theatlantic.comAll the Sad HawksNeoconservatives struggle to reconcile their hopes for Trump with the failure of his Iran war. 091
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 17/06/2026theatlantic.comAll the Sad HawksNeoconservatives struggle to reconcile their hopes for Trump with the failure of his Iran war. 171
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 16/06/2026theatlantic.comWhy July 4 Turned Into a Trump RallyThe president has never accepted that the head of state and the leader of the Republican Party are separate roles. 073
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 08/06/2026theatlantic.comRepublicans Never Lose Elections, ApparentlyDenying the legitimacy of vote-counting has become party doctrine. 2174
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 03/06/2026theatlantic.comDonald Trump’s Superficiality Is Bone DeepFor the shallowest man ever to occupy the presidency, surface appeal is a guiding principle. 2183
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 27/05/2026theatlantic.comJohn Cornyn Lost With His Boots OffLike fellow Republicans exiled by the president, he still accepted Trump’s claim to inhabit the will of the party. 172
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 26/05/2026www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comThe Antitrust Theory of EverythingDemocrats are in thrall to the idea that corporate consolidation is America’s biggest, and maybe only, problem. 33011
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 21/05/2026theatlantic.comThe Strangest Thing Donald Trump Has Said in Some TimeTrump’s funniest riff ever? 051
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 19/05/2026theatlantic.comTrump’s $1.8 Billion Slush Fund Is Worse Than StealingRecasting the January 6 insurrection as the work of heroic patriots remains the president’s highest priority. 083
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 14/05/2026theatlantic.comDonald Trump’s Inflationary AgendaHe was elected to tackle one problem. Instead, he’s made it worse. 2124
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 12/05/2026theatlantic.comBig Brother Is ReTruthing YouDonald Trump is a victim of propaganda as much as he is a manipulator of it. 151
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Ive abandoned racism (and sexism) as a analytical category for understanding to current moment? What? 630
Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 08/05/2026In fact, Peterson does not even claim, let alone show, I misrepresented his remarks 240