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Support for pro-Trump Republicans remains driven by relatively well-off whites in fast-growing, rapidly diversifying suburbs—not by economic despair in rural America.
Jacob Whiton
As we confront rightwing extremism in our own time, the history of American fascist sympathy reveals a legacy worth reckoning with.
Justin H. Vassallo
Leaders of the left abandoned the language of transformation in the 1980s—at a cost. Can it be regained?
Adam Przeworski
The pandemic holds important political lessons for the climate crisis, but they must be taught.
Aaron Karp
We cannot simply put the past behind us. The framework of transitional justice offers a promising path forward.
Colleen Murphy
Defying conventional political labels and capitalizing on widespread distrust, a range of new movements share the conviction that all power is conspiracy.
William Callison, Quinn Slobodian
The Republican Party has become a white nationalist party. If old fashioned politics can’t change that, we must consider alternatives.
Bernard E. Harcourt
Much maligned as a mere tactician of power, Machiavelli was in fact a philosopher of the people. His critique of oligarchic domination remains essential today.
Camila Vergara
In his new memoir the former president makes clear he had no intention of being a savior.
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
Far from a partisan for free markets, the Founding Father insisted on the need for economic planning. We need more of that vision today.
Christian Parenti, Michael Busch
If Trump was the end of the “party of ideas,” the rise of Reagan was its start. But what were those “ideas” in the first place, and were they really as new as people said?
Lawrence B. Glickman
Many reject privatization for its distributional consequences. The deeper problem is that it threatens the very foundation of political legitimacy.
Chiara Cordelli
Some on the right insist that efforts to curtail Thanksgiving are in reality sinister attempts to rewrite the country’s history.
Jonathan Beecher Field
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