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Liberty Briefs: If MAGA Is an Existential Threat, Act Like It
This Is Not the Time for Purity Tests
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Private Profits, Public Pain — The Logic of the Trump Economy
Why Trump’s economic chaos is working exactly as intended
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I’ll Tone Down My Rhetoric the Second Trump Does
The right’s cavernous silence on the stochastic violence of the inciter‑in‑chief
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The MAGA Playbook for Undermining Elections
How voter suppression, federal overreach, and legal intimidation are converging ahead of 2026 and 2028
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MAGA’s Quiet Embrace of Warrantless Surveillance
Section 702 and the unresolved danger of warrantless searches
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Liberty Briefs: Inside ICE and CBP’s Growing Threat to Civil Liberties
Liberty Briefs is a new series of brief, shareable essays on topics core to the pro-democracy mission of Liberty’s Lens. These pieces are always free to read, and readers are encouraged to share them widely—whether here on Substack or copied into other formats where personal text travels
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So, Trump is Unfit. What Now?
What comes next when removal is unlikely
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Are you on the Trump regime’s domestic terror watch list?
An editor’s essay on dissent, surveillance, and NSPM‑7
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Trump’s Iran Debacle and the Authoritarian Turn Against the Press
How a politically desperate deal gave way to retaliation against those who exposed it
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Trump Went to War—and Now Americans Are Paying for It
From the Strait of Hormuz to higher prices and fewer services at home.
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The Cosmic Con: When "Transparency" Becomes Distraction
Aliens.Gov and the politics of spectacle in a moment of crisis
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Iran Is Weaponizing Energy — Welcome to the New Economic Normal
How asymmetric energy shocks exposed the fragility of a globalized economy