Politics in America “…despite the country’s fondness for aspirational rhetoric, our illiberal traditions have serious staying power, too” Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 April 2017 As a point of strategy, it may behoove Democrats to embrace patriotic or nationalistic...
Politics in America “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” Author Drew Kaplan Date 31 March 2017 To outsiders, #GamerGate looked like a cesspool of angry, entitled young men nobody else...
Politics in America “The problem in Washington is not a Deep State; the problem is a shallow man…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 30 March 2017 The problem in Washington is not a Deep State; the problem is a shallow...
Europe, Politics in America “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” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 March 2017 The party structures on both sides of the Atlantic have their origins in the...
Politics in America “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” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 March 2017 Mr. Trump and company seem to be betting that much of the electorate will...
Politics in America “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” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 March 2017 “That’s not who we are.” So said President Obama, again and again throughout his...
Environment, Politics in America “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” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 March 2017 Arctic ice cover reached record lows this summer and fall, while in Antarctica, we...
Politics in America “Bipartisan agreement about the future of the planet falls apart not over the bomb but over the climate” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 March 2017 Trump has often contradicted himself on the subject of nuclear weapons, but one of...
Politics in America “Fortunately for Trump, most voters have no real idea how the government spends its money…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 March 2017 Trump won’t be sending a formal budget to Congress for a few weeks. But...
Politics in America “Mr. Trump understands that attacking the media is the reddest of meat for his base…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 March 2017 Mr. Trump understands that attacking the media is the reddest of meat for his...