Chief Justice John Roberts built his reputation as an institutionalist while authoring some of the most radical expansions of executive power in modern U.S. history. Elie Mystal of The Nation puts it bluntly: “If you are a nonwhite citizen, he is the person stopping you from voting. Not Donald Trump, not Stephen Miller, not the Republican Party in the White House – it has been, and it always has been, John Roberts.” Mystal says Democrats must pursue Supreme Court expansion. “If you don’t control the Supreme Court, you control nothing.”
See what TAC staff have been up to this week. The post TAC Media Appearances: 8/10–8/17 appeared first on The American Conservative .
- Executive Director Curt Mills joined Next Up with Mark Halperin to discuss Gavin Newsom’s position as the leading contender for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination - Mills and Senior Editor Andrew Day joined Robert Wright on Nonzero to discuss Iran War negotiations, strains within the MAGA coalition, and the war’s implications for the Middle East - Nicastro and Associate Editor Joseph Addington interviewed Charles Benoit on the Trump administration’s tariff policy for TAC Right Now - Senior Editor Luke Nicastro joined Security Dilemma to make the conservative case against the interventionist right - Mills was cited in the Nation as an influential foreign-policy restrainer close to senior Trump…Open
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani held a press conference on July 10 to announce a new consumer-protection rule, and turned the Q&A into a curated showcase for the socialist press. Video from the event captured Mamdani calling on reporters from The Nation, Mother Jones, and Jacobin by name and outlet, one after another. The […] The post Mamdani cherry-picks socialist media for press conference questions, then scrubs the transcript appeared first on American Almanac .
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani held a press conference on July 10 to announce a new consumer-protection rule, and turned the Q&A into a curated showcase for the socialist press. Video from the event captured Mamdani calling on reporters from The Nation, Mother Jones, and Jacobin by name and outlet, one after another. The official transcript his office later posted to the city website omitted every one of those call-on cues. The pattern is worth examining closely. This is the mayor of the largest city in America hand-selecting ideologically sympathetic journalists, feeding them a policy rollout, and then erasing the evidence from the public record. The outlets obliged with coverage that the Washington Free Beacon described as reading…Open
Demographics and technology have conspired to keep the streets clear of protestors. The post Where’s the Antiwar Left? appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Where’s the Antiwar Left? Demographics and technology have conspired to keep the streets clear of protestors. The world remains fixated on President Donald Trump’s war with Iran, with concerns rising over how it may harm the global economy and Middle Eastern stability. It’s already killed 13 Americans and could kill far more. Yet, unlike past conflicts, there are no large-scale demonstrations against the war. The opposition party also remains rather muted about the conflict. Right-leaning podcasters and influencers seem to be driving more of the opposition towards the war than the traditionally dovish parts of the…Open
