The America That’s Still Possible
What does it mean to celebrate America on its 250th anniversary? The Trump administration’s festivities — from the U.F.C. fight on the White House lawn to the Great American State Fair — have centered...
3 Jul 1h 45min
Chris Rufo Thinks the Right Can Control This. I Don’t.
Christopher Rufo is arguably the most successful activist of the MAGA era. He rose to prominence fighting D.E.I. initiatives and critical race theory. In President Trump’s second term, he’s had a huge...
30 Jun 2h 4min
I Keep Telling People We’re Living in This Dystopian Novel
A hypervisual, looks-obsessed, wellness-crazed, postliterate society where we’re constantly staring at screens and evaluating one another based on metrics, as the country around us feels like it’s fal...
19 Jun 1h 18min
Graham Platner, Jon Ossoff and the New Rules of Political Attention
Attention is working in really unusual ways this election cycle. Graham Platner, a political unknown a year ago, ended up dominating his Senate primary against Maine’s sitting governor – even as his c...
16 Jun 1h 18min
What’s the Left’s Vision for Foreign Policy After Trump?
The Democratic Party is in the middle of a rupture over foreign policy – with Israel and Palestine at the center. In recent weeks, the Democratic senators Brian Schatz and Chris Van Hollen both called...
9 Jun 1h 33min
The New Right’s Very Old Vision of Men
A new masculinist movement has gone mainstream on the right. The prominent voices in this movement yearn for an earlier time, when men were men and women were women. Sometimes that time seems to be th...
5 Jun 1h 43min
Ian Bremmer on the Risks America Poses to the World
Over the past month, there have been two dominant stories in American foreign policy. One, of course, is the war with Iran. The other is the much-anticipated summit between President Trump and Xi Jinp...
2 Jun 1h 31min
Does Trump Want to Lose the Midterms?
President Trump doesn’t seem to care that much about winning the midterms. He’s more unpopular at this point in his second term than basically any of his modern predecessors. Democrats seem poised to ...
29 Mai 1h 14min
