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How corporations took over the federal courts

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By Matthew Sheffield
| Flux Podcasts (Formerly Theory of Change) Verified
Judge Amy Coney Barrett, her husband Jesse Barrett, and Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas look at Barrett’s commission certificate from President Donald Trump at the White House. October 26, 2020. Photo: Andrea Hanks/White House American democracy has been widely seen as embattled for the last 10 years or so, but the factions seeking to undermine or replace it have been active for many decades.
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Antivax arguments haven’t gotten any better in 300 years

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By Matthew Sheffield
| Flux Podcasts (Formerly Theory of Change) Verified
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior poses for a picture to promote “The Secretary Kennedy Podcast.” April 2026. Photo: DHHS.
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The U.S. is inexperienced as a democracy, and it’s showing

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By Matthew Sheffield
| Flux Podcasts (Formerly Theory of Change) Verified
Photo: Reba Spike/Unsplash “We live in the worst timeline” is a phrase you often hear people say in left-leaning social spaces. It’s usually a joke, but I think it’s more than that. The truth is that, while Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in American history, democracy in this country has been at risk many times throughout its lifetime, and also that it really couldn’t be said to have fully existed until the passage of the civil rights acts of the 1960s.
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