Jonathan Chait (@jonathanbchait.bsky.social)

Jonathan Chait

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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

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theatlantic.comTrump’s Cheesecake Factory DissentEvery Republican wants to paint Obama as an out-of-touch elitist—except one.

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theatlantic.comThis Is Not a Cycle of RetributionThe Republican response to Senator Elissa Slotkin is revealing.

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theatlantic.comMamdani Is the Centrist We’ve Been Waiting ForThe New York City mayor deserves a new cult following—among pragmatists.

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theatlantic.comFive Fabulous Days of Katie ZachariaThe Trump administration returns to classic form.

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theatlantic.comTrump’s Affection for Russia Is No MysteryThe best explanation is the least complicated one.

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theatlantic.comWhat Hasan Piker BelievesHe’s right to complain that a few provocative quotes do not capture his worldview.

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At no point in this column do I claim Rufo's previous stance was sincere.

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the idea that rufo has, at any point in his public career, been a sincere advocate for “colorblind meritocracy” is brain dead

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taking even a moment to google anything I've written about Rufo previously would have easily dispelled the notion I admire his career before now

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theatlantic.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.

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theatlantic.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.

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21 Sept

theatlantic.comThe Curious Left-Wing Argument Against New AI RegulationsThe governing challenges raised by AI expose several unfortunate tendencies in the populist anti-monopoly movement.

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20 Sept

theatlantic.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.

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14 Sept

theatlantic.comWho Needs Regulation When Trump Is President?The president is turning the charge of personalism into a promise.

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12 Sept

theatlantic.comTrump Will Never Mail the $5,000 ChecksDeconstructing a policy proposal that makes no sense on any level

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10 Sept

theatlantic.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.

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9 Sept

theatlantic.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.

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5 Sept

theatlantic.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.

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1 Sept

theatlantic.comTrump Meant It Literally When He Said He Was Taking the OilThe Venezuela operation is the purest distillation of his amoral foreign policy.

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31 Aug

theatlantic.comThe Apocalyptic Style in Woke ThinkingMuch of the climate movement, particularly its most radical elements, has pivoted to Palestine.

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28 Aug

theatlantic.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.

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28 Aug

theatlantic.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.

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20 Aug

theatlantic.comResistance 1.0 Was Not CrazyThe much-derided movement was right about Trump’s nature, and how to defeat him.

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17 Aug

theatlantic.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.

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5 Aug

theatlantic.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.

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31 July

theatlantic.comThe Incoherence of the Iran HawksIf bombing has limited, reversible effects, then it will have to continue indefinitely.

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30 July

theatlantic.comAmerica Isn’t Supposed to Have Political ProsecutionsThe investigation of James Comey is vindictive and meritless—and unashamedly so.

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30 July

theatlantic.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.

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22 July

theatlantic.comThe DSA Isn’t Wrong About EverythingAbolish the Senate!

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21 July

This 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.

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17 July

theatlantic.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.

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15 July

theatlantic.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.

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8 July

theatlantic.comTrump’s Curious Affection for CommunismIf the president fears Marxism, maybe he should stop mimicking its worst elements.

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6 July

theatlantic.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.

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2 July

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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1 July

theatlantic.comThe DSA’s Communist RevolutionThe Democratic Socialists of America was formed in opposition to the very thing it has become.

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26 June

theatlantic.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.

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24 June

theatlantic.comWhy I Joined Team AlgaeThe greening of the Reflecting Pool is meaningless to everybody, except the president.

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18 June

theatlantic.comIf Only Trump Knew What Vance Is DoingIf the president is infallible, there must be some other explanation for his Iran defeat.

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17 June

theatlantic.comAll the Sad HawksNeoconservatives struggle to reconcile their hopes for Trump with the failure of his Iran war.

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17 June

theatlantic.comAll the Sad HawksNeoconservatives struggle to reconcile their hopes for Trump with the failure of his Iran war.

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16 June

theatlantic.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.

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8 June

theatlantic.comRepublicans Never Lose Elections, ApparentlyDenying the legitimacy of vote-counting has become party doctrine.

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3 June

theatlantic.comDonald Trump’s Superficiality Is Bone DeepFor the shallowest man ever to occupy the presidency, surface appeal is a guiding principle.

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27 May

theatlantic.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.

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26 May

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theatlantic.comThe Antitrust Theory of EverythingDemocrats are in thrall to the idea that corporate consolidation is America’s biggest, and maybe only, problem.

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21 May

theatlantic.comThe Strangest Thing Donald Trump Has Said in Some TimeTrump’s funniest riff ever?

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19 May

theatlantic.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.

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14 May

theatlantic.comDonald Trump’s Inflationary AgendaHe was elected to tackle one problem. Instead, he’s made it worse.

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12 May

theatlantic.comBig Brother Is ReTruthing YouDonald Trump is a victim of propaganda as much as he is a manipulator of it.

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7 May

In fact, Peterson does not even claim, let alone show, I misrepresented his remarks

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Derek Peterson corrects the record about his remarks at U of M graduation, the remarks that are being misrepresented by ambitious Republicans, Chait, and worst of all the university president in his statement.

facultysenate.umich.eduStatement from the Outgoing Chair of the Faculty Senate | U-M Faculty Senate