California, Politics in America “To label something ‘un-American’ is to imagine America as it should have been or as it might yet be but not as it ever was” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 May 2017 On the surface, “un-American” implies consensus: It carries a punch only when everybody agrees...
Politics in America “What does it mean for the American presidency itself to become a fake out?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 May 2017 Now that the trolling ethos has infiltrated the actual core of government, whole systems...
Politics in America “Trolls work through abstraction, leveraging the internet and irony to carve out a space between actions and consequences” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 May 2017 Trolls work through abstraction, leveraging the internet and irony to carve out a space...
England, Politics in America “The parties and politicians of the center have become the managers of the status quo in an era when people want change. So, the center — in both its center-right and center-left camps — is marginalized, even despised” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 May 2017 The same dynamics are splintering the left, too. One element has aligned with the...
Politics in America ” It turns out that what Democrats were missing was a sense of existential emergency. Mr. Trump has provided it” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 May 2017 One hundred days into his administration, President Trump has few legislative achievements to his...
England, European Union, Politics in America “Politics is being reshaped, and this phenomenon is the same whether it is in the United States or in Europe” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 May 2017 Politics is being reshaped, and this phenomenon is the same whether it is in...
Family, Politics in America, Work “The idealized vision of 1950s womanhood that still permeates our politics ignores the fact that staying home may not actually make mothers happy” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 May 2017 The idealized vision of 1950s womanhood that still permeates our politics ignores the fact...
Politics in America “The intellectual and political task ahead is at once to resist the ugliest manifestations of the new right-wing populism…and to confront the consequences of globalism, technology, and cultural change” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 May 2017 The opposition to Trump also has to give deeper thought to why a demagogue...
Politics in America “Trump flouts truth and liberal values so brazenly that he undermines the country he has been elected to serve and the stability he is pledged to insure” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 May 2017 Trump flouts truth and liberal values so brazenly that he undermines the country he...
Politics in America “…a basket is just the kind of zany, cheerful container that makes light of the deplorables while still putting them in their place” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 May 2017 In the United States, Hillary Clinton calls half the supporters of Donald Trump “a...