“…despite the country’s fondness for aspirational rhetoric, our illiberal traditions have serious staying power, too”
As a point of strategy, it may behoove Democrats to embrace patriotic or nationalistic...
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“To outsiders, #GamerGate looked like a cesspool of angry, entitled young men nobody else wanted to talk to. But some right-wing figures spied an opportunity”
To outsiders, #GamerGate looked like a cesspool of angry, entitled young men nobody else...
“The problem in Washington is not a Deep State; the problem is a shallow man…”
The problem in Washington is not a Deep State; the problem is a shallow...
“The party structures on both sides of the Atlantic have their origins in the Industrial Revolution and the debates engendered by that epoch about socialism and capitalism, the market and the state”
The party structures on both sides of the Atlantic have their origins in the...
“If we want to restore respect for facts and break through the intellectual ghettos on both the right and left, the mainstream media will have to be aggressive without being hysterical and adversarial without being unduly oppositional”
Mr. Trump and company seem to be betting that much of the electorate will...
“If close to half of America voted for Republicans in the Obama years and support Trump today, then clearly something besides the pieties of cosmopolitan liberalism is very much a part of who we are”
“That’s not who we are.” So said President Obama, again and again throughout his...
“Just as the world seemed poised to embark on a collective effort to wean itself off dependency on fossil fuels, its leading power elected as president a man who has claimed that global warming is a conspiracy invented by the Chinese and who went on to select as his secretary of state the chairman of Exxon Mobil”
Arctic ice cover reached record lows this summer and fall, while in Antarctica, we...
“Bipartisan agreement about the future of the planet falls apart not over the bomb but over the climate”
Trump has often contradicted himself on the subject of nuclear weapons, but one of...
“Fortunately for Trump, most voters have no real idea how the government spends its money…”
Trump won’t be sending a formal budget to Congress for a few weeks. But...
“Mr. Trump understands that attacking the media is the reddest of meat for his base…”
Mr. Trump understands that attacking the media is the reddest of meat for his...