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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Donald J. Trump
The tragic reascent of Trump is not an anomaly to democracy but its fatal flaw.
The Parenting Panic
Contrary to both far right and mainstream center-left, there’s no epidemic of chosen childlessness.
Memory Lags
Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Nihon Hidankyo, an association of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors, is a small step to facing the truth so long denied.
Abortion’s Future
Activists, not elites, are leading the way forward in a world without Roe.
The View from Besieged Beirut
In the wake of exploding pagers, universalism plunges into the abyss.
Can Social Democracy Win Again?
The tangled legacy of the Swedish experiment.
The Cost of China’s Prosperity
For Hong Kong and Taiwan, neoliberalism’s falling tides made political repression inevitable.
The Politics of Price
How accounting protocols undermine public goals—from decolonization to climate action.
What Turned Poor White Counties Red?
Arlie Russell Hochschild blames an emotional blindness to facts, erasing the Democrats’ deep failings.
Remembering Andreas Eshete
A revolutionary, philosopher, and devoted patriot, he was among Ethiopia’s leading public intellectuals.
Post Colonialism
Along a recently designated historic trail on the U.S.-Mexico border, colonial legacies hide in plain sight.
Cooling Tensions in a Warming World
Lessons from the new alliances between labor and climate activism.
The Harris Doctrine
Would Kamala Harris’s foreign policy depart from Biden’s? Clues from the work of her national security advisor, Philip Gordon.
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