Jonathan Chait
@jonathanchait
Writer for the Atlantic. Tweets with links are intended as prompts to read the linked story, not self-contained arguments substituting for the linked story
Some personal news. Sad to say goodbye to @NYMag but thrilled to be joining @TheAtlantic nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Clear, sharp demolition of the Manhattan Institute's letter rationalizing Trumpian ideological domination of universities theunpopulist.net/p/a-manhattan-…
I think Carville's right that Democrats should simply propose to repeal Trump's megabill nytimes.com/2025/07/21/opi…
Labor leader objects to CEQA reforms that "undermine enviro standards that are important & that give us leverage." Um, if they were actually important, they wouldn't give you leverage. 1/2
"If the president is a Democrat, Trump complains that interest rates are too low. If the president is a Republican, he complains that they’re too high" theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
Trump doesn't actually think Jerome Powell is bad at his job theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
Fewer.
We need more electricians and less sociology majors.
I guess it's just New York Times house style to describe everything on the left as "liberal" even if it's explicitly to the left of liberalism.
Larry Summers is a billionaire? Sounds fishy, but @curaffairs wouldn't report it if it wasn't true currentaffairs.org/news/three-tra…
UNEARTHED: Donald Trump judges the 1991 Look of the Year modeling competition organized by Elite Model Management, featuring participants as young at 14-years-old. A 2020 Guardian investigation into Elite's Look of the Year competition uncovered allegations from former…
Now more than ever, Planned Parenthood should be the essential institution regarding women’s reproductive health. But just when they’re needed most, they’ve become a macabre shadow of themselves. Read this piece By the indispensable Pamela Paul wsj.com/us-news/what-i…
One of the first things Vladimir Putin did on becoming president was take over NTV, the TV channel that hosted a satirical puppet show because he didn't like the Putin doll and how he was portrayed. He arrested NTV's owner and only released him when he signed the channel over.…
Read @rosehorowitch on how conservatives pushed Columbia into creating a DEI bureaucracy for anti-Semitism theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
“I never wrote a picture in my life”
I know this doesn't matter but a lady in ohio solicited doodles from celebrities to auction for charity and in 2004 she said that trump was always literally the first to send in his drawings
This was a malicious misquote back in 2020 and it's a malicious misquote now. Attributes the quote to Yamiche and omits the fact she's *reporting what she heard from a Democrat*: "I was talking to a Democrat who just said . . ."
We were paying Yamiche's salary when she made the dumbest comment in the history of the news industry
5 Stars @jonathanchait , 5 Stars @TheAtlantic "Whatever probability you had in your mind that the Epstein files contain damaging material, you should probably raise it." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
"Sometimes people sound guilty even if they aren’t, especially government officials. Still, whatever probability you had in your mind that the Epstein files contain damaging material, you should probably raise it after listening to Trump yesterday" theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
I have some questions about Trump's position on the Epstein scandal theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
