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Finding the Future in Radical Rural America

It's time to rewrite the narrative of “Trump Country.” Rural places weren't always red, and many are turning increasingly blue.

Elizabeth Catte

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Obama's Original Sin

A new insider account reveals how the Obama administration’s botched bailout deal not only reinforced neoliberal Clintonism, but also foreshadowed an ongoing failure to fulfill campaign promises.

Eric Rauchway

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

The Book on Marx That Arendt Never Finished

Hannah Arendt’s unfinished book on Marx offers a timely philosophical dialogue for our era of economic precarity.

Geoffrey Wildanger

Politics

Quantifying Love

Reputational currency, like China's Social Credit Score, rebrands repression as rational nudging. And these algorithmic governance models are spreading.

Frank Pasquale

Politics

What Anti-Semitism Is—And What It Is Not

Two Jewish activists discuss the place of anti-Semitism in contemporary movements for social justice.

Donna Nevel, Mark Tseng-Putterman

Politics

The End of the End of History

What does it mean to live in a world in which history has rusted under the monstrous weight of the permanent now?

Maximillian Alvarez

Politics

The Death and Life of the Jewish Century

The resurgence of anti-Semitism today is not a quirk of Donald Trump. As a new book shows, it has deep roots in powerful institutions.

Benjamin Balthaser

Politics

Two-State Head, One-State Heart

For a two-state solution to succeed, Israeli Jews must first forswear their righteous narrative of moral superiority.

Jeremy Pressman

Education & Opportunity, Politics

Teachers with Guns

What happens when a school district votes to arm teachers? A Rust Belt educator takes us through the grim realities of training to kill one of his own students.

Thomas Baxter

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

The Rawlsian Diagnosis of Donald Trump

Does Trump’s success vindicate or undermine liberal theory?

Samuel Scheffler

Politics

American Extremism Has Always Flowed from the Border

Donald Trump says there is “a crisis of the soul” at the border. He is right, though not in the way he thinks.

Greg Grandin

Politics, Science & Nature

No Collision

In the face of climate apocalypse, the rich have been devising escape plans. What happens when they opt out of democratic preparation for emergencies?

Bonnie Honig

Politics

Selling Outrage

Yochai Benkler argues that the mainstream media is our best hope for tempering the radical right. 

Yochai Benkler, Deborah Chasman

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