# String in a Maze

> Media, politics, and power.

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## Posts
- [Abstraction And Lies In The New York Times](https://stringinamaze.net/p/abstraction-and-lies-in-the-new-york-times): Ross Douthat's final column is a feat of dishonesty
- [Welcome to the Age of Diarrhea](https://stringinamaze.net/p/welcome-to-the-age-of-diarrhea): The future is not knowing what ails you
- [Has The Right Found Their Next Roe v. Wade?](https://stringinamaze.net/p/has-the-right-found-their-next-roe-v-wade): Conservatives are turning birthright citizenship into a purity test
- [Thomas Chatterton Williams and the New Redeemers](https://stringinamaze.net/p/thomas-chatterton-williams-and-the-new-redeemers): The Atlantic columnist buys what white supremacists are selling
- [Bari Weiss and the Incompetence Spiral](https://stringinamaze.net/p/bari-weiss-and-the-incompetence-spiral): The hire of Nick Bilton is a glimpse into how reactionary institutions collapse
- [Rich Guy Quote Journalism](https://stringinamaze.net/p/rich-guy-quote-journalism): How the media turns rich guys' opinions into news
- [What's Political Violence?](https://stringinamaze.net/p/what-s-political-violence): When the media talks about political violence, they're only telling part of the story
- [The Little Mind of a Big Hawk](https://stringinamaze.net/p/the-little-mind-of-a-big-hawk): Bret Stephens loves a war
- [Purity Politics Is A One-Way Ratchet](https://stringinamaze.net/p/purity-politics-is-a-one-way-ratchet): The Hasan Piker drama is a proxy war for Democrats
- [On Blaming Israel](https://stringinamaze.net/p/on-blaming-israel): The Iran war discourse is being shaped by bad faith actors
- [Hollow Opposition](https://stringinamaze.net/p/hollow-opposition-de7b): On Iran, top Democrats only have procedural concerns
- [No War but Culture War](https://stringinamaze.net/p/no-war-but-culture-war): The right holds political power, but for them that's never enough
- [There Must Be Retribution](https://stringinamaze.net/p/there-must-be-retribution): Abolishing ICE isn't enough. So what is?
- [The Politics of Abolishing ICE](https://stringinamaze.net/p/the-politics-of-abolishing-ice): Some Democrats say it's not feasible - they're wrong.
- [The Moral Panic Machine in Minnesota](https://stringinamaze.net/p/the-moral-panic-machine-in-minnesota): From a child care scandal to a state-sponsored murder
- [Bari Weiss Fulfills Her Destiny](https://stringinamaze.net/p/bari-weiss-fulfills-her-destiny)
- [Pants on FIRE](https://stringinamaze.net/p/pants-on-fire): Greg Lukianoff's free speech organization can't admit to what they've done
- [The Pundits Were All Wrong](https://stringinamaze.net/p/the-pundits-were-all-wrong): The Republican collapse has exposed elite pundits as clueless
- [Who's Afraid of The New York Times?](https://stringinamaze.net/p/who-s-afraid-of-the-new-york-times): Zohran Mamdani's win shows the limits of the Grey Lady's influence
- [You Should Blame Merrick Garland](https://stringinamaze.net/p/you-should-blame-merrick-garland): Garland's incompetence gave the Supreme Court the chance to set Trump free
- [What's a Scandal Anymore?](https://stringinamaze.net/p/what-s-a-scandal-anymore): On the media's failure to cover Trump's weaponization of the IRS
- [Bari Weiss Takes Her Grift Mainstream](https://stringinamaze.net/p/bari-weiss-takes-her-grift-mainstream): Journalism's biggest fraud takes the reins at CBS
- [Your Mourning is Mandatory](https://stringinamaze.net/p/your-mourning-is-mandatory): Authoritarians need you to perform for them
- [Policy Can't Solve a Propaganda Problem](https://stringinamaze.net/p/policy-can-t-solve-a-propaganda-problem): On immigration and everything else, pundits are missing the point
- [Why Are Liberals Cutting Off Their Conservative Family Members?](https://stringinamaze.net/p/why-are-liberals-cutting-off-their-conservative-family-members): Are liberals too sensitive, or are conservatives too awful?
- [Is Activist Vocabulary Hurting the Democrats?](https://stringinamaze.net/p/is-activist-vocabulary-hurting-the-democrats): Third Way's latest memo has weak advice and a hidden agenda
- [The End of Information](https://stringinamaze.net/p/the-end-of-information-bfd4d6184bfb4d49): Donald Trump doesn't need statistics because there is only one truth
- [The New York Times Puts An Asterisk On A Starving Child](https://stringinamaze.net/p/the-new-york-times-puts-an-asterisk-on-a-starving-child-727e31e3a5a63b11): The Times takes the bait on Israeli propaganda
- [You Can't Turn MAGA Against Trump](https://stringinamaze.net/p/you-can-t-turn-maga-against-trump): A movement founded in conspiracy won't be moved by facts
- [The Moral Panic Exception to the Constitution](https://stringinamaze.net/p/the-moral-panic-exception-to-the-constitution-0bd804ec1e338ed3): A rule has emerged from the incoherence of the Supreme Court's recent decisions
- [The Triumph of the American Moron](https://stringinamaze.net/p/the-triumph-of-the-american-moron): Clarence Thomas's anti-trans concurrence is the culmination of right-wing anti-intellectualism
- [The Politics of Eternal Distraction](https://stringinamaze.net/p/the-politics-of-eternal-distraction): To some Democrats, everything Trump does is designed to distract you
- [Kilmar Abrego Garcia's Homecoming](https://stringinamaze.net/p/kilmar-abrego-garcia-s-homecoming):  Trump brings Abrego Garcia home, but only in an effort to make his punishment official
- [Can The Federalist Society Survive Donald Trump?](https://stringinamaze.net/p/can-the-federalist-society-survive-donald-trump-05b8150e50eac2c3): For the conservative legal group, Trump presents an existential crisis
- [Democrats Can't Buy Themselves A Joe Rogan](https://stringinamaze.net/p/democrats-can-t-buy-themselves-a-joe-rogan-e5f81d6d2b15c372): The effort to replicate the right's influencer network is destined to fail