Tag: politics

Columns

The “Free Speech” Cheat

Shane Burley

May 03, 2019

College Student Senate chambers are not historically hotbeds of nationwide controversy, but Turning Point USA is set to rewrite the rules of campus politics. The ultra-conservative student group, which could easily be labeled “the youth wing” of Trump Republicanism, has ...

The Great Untaxed

Whitney Curry Wimbish

April 12, 2019

The Republican tax bill is now kicking in—and the rich are making off like bandits

In the Kingdom of Mitch

Dave Denison

March 12, 2019

What comes after McConnellism?

Becoming Unbecoming

Rafia Zakaria

January 30, 2019

How the role of First Lady diminishes strong and ambitious women.

HyperNovelization

Olivia Parkes

January 30, 2019

Olga Slavnikova’s "The Man Who Couldn’t Die" and the post-Soviet reality deficit.

Solutionism for Students

Richard A. Greenwald

November 15, 2018

The authors of "The Coddling of the American Mind" diagnose a generation of students and then offer a cure—mass therapy.

Vigo Shrugged

Rafia Zakaria

November 09, 2018

Indiana Democrat Joe Donnelly ran a textbook centrist campaign. And lost.

Land of Extraction

Sammy Feldblum

November 02, 2018

New Mexico heads into an election that will decide how to handle an oil and gas boom.

Populist Persuasions

Joe Lowndes

October 31, 2018

Imagine that the left set out to reclaim populism. Is it possible?

Bolsonaro Rising

Alex Hochuli

October 29, 2018

Brazil, the world’s fourth-largest democracy has elected a neofascist as president.

Making Sausage of Salazar

Max B. Sawicky

September 18, 2018

There are long-standing, reasonable arguments about why socialism is terrible. I don’t think they hold up, but these arguments are not what animates criticism of left challenges to the Democratic Party establishment. Instead we are treated to a barrage of evil, inane gossip, ...

Seizing Socialism’s Moment

The Nostalgia Trap

July 31, 2018

We don’t have a very visible fighting feminist movement in the way that we’ve had in the past.