Very Normal, Sir: Trump's Canadian and Iranian Quagmires (Half the Answer #101, with Greg Sargent)
Trump's unprovoked trade war with Canada and his chaotic attacks on Iran have him hemorrhaging support.
Very Normal, Sir: Trump's Canadian and Iranian Quagmires (Half the Answer #101, with Greg Sargent)
Trump's unprovoked trade war with Canada and his chaotic attacks on Iran have him hemorrhaging support.
Religion, Humanities, and the Public Good
The right wing's assault on Religion and Humanities programs is an assault on our ability to understand the world, from Hindutva abroad to Christian Nationalism at home.
After 1989
The current crisis of democracy was not inevitable, but a result of hubris and shortsightedness among generations of statesmen.
Bending the Knee at Yale
Why is it that Maurie McInnis and her fellow elites crumbled so instantaneously?
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Editor's Notes: The Culture of Elite Conformism Enabled the Capitulations of the Second Trump Term
We need a Reconstruction not only of our institutions but of our system of producing elites.
Liberal Currents Live: Russia and Ukraine—All the Ruin That Putin Can Buy
Vladimir Putin does not care about Russian lives or Russian territory. For dictators like him, those things are negotiable.
Editor's Notes: The New Fugitive Slave Controversy Is Already Upon Us
The crisis is older than the second Trump term.
Editor's Notes: They Hate Us For Our Freedoms
The existence and idea of freedom and cosmopolitan diversity is an existential threat to authoritarians big and small.
The World That Woke 2.0 Seeks to Build
We can learn from the Civil Rights Movement, but we can also learn from its opposition.
Guardrails for Democracy: How Congress Can Reinforce Privacy Rights and Independent Oversight
Chapter 4 (pp. 18–25) from The Reconstruction Papers.
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Liberal Currents Live: Russia and Ukraine—All the Ruin That Putin Can Buy
Vladimir Putin does not care about Russian lives or Russian territory. For dictators like him, those things are negotiable.
How Taylor Sheridan's Fever Dreams Explain MAGA Foreign Policy (Neon Liberalism #88, with SecDef Rock)
The demented politics of "Lioness" have infected the Pentagon.
