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Constitution class is back in session!
We could all use a refresher course on our rights. Jill Lepore's "We the People" can help
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MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: The salooning of America
A major case on guns at the Supreme Court, new limits on the First Amendment, a manifesto from a galaxy much like our own
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MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: An offer universities can't refuse?
Gavin Newsom raises the stakes, the cold civil war heats up, Taylor Swift gives cause for hope
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Trump’s Plan
To invoke the Insurrection Act
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RANT: Calling Taylor Swift MAGA is why the left loses
You don't win in politics by waging a war on normal people doing normal things
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MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: The Kavanaugh stop
Fighting the Supreme Court's dismantling of the Bill of Rights, and Bad Bunny's bigger idea of what it means to be American
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Has it ever been this bad before?
In "We the People," historian Jill Lepore explains the constitutional crisis before us
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Leigh Haber
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WEEKEND READS for October 4, 2025: Across a divided country
Folk wisdom, medical grifters, love and climate, a yacht heist, and more
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In "The Lost Bus," a plea to show up for other people's children even when your own are in the fire
The climate/economic/masculinity/political polycrisis as art
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Anand Giridharadas
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MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: Comedy's free speech crisis
Laughs and limits at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, Russia's shadow war, an older and wiser return to rock
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An actual, detailed plan to save Democrats — and democracy
Strategist Corbin Trent on how to beat MAGA in 2026, 2028, and beyond
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Anand Giridharadas
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Corbin Trent
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How to message a shutdown
Anat Shenker-Osorio weighs in
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