Anne Applebaum: The Loss of 'Democratic Faith'
The U.S. has been a model for other aspiring democracies since 1776. At the same time, the idea of America as the leader of the democratic world has also had a unifying effect at home. It’s what has k...
16 Okt 202549min
Heather Cox Richardson: An Attack on Our System of Government
Republicans in Congress know that what they’re doing is deeply unpopular—on healthcare, supporting troops in the streets, and on redistricting. That’s why they’re basically in hiding, plotting new way...
15 Okt 202549min
JB Pritzker and Franklin Foer: Like Living in an Authoritarian Regime
After a court temporarily blocked the deployment of Guard troops in Illinois, ICE agents began ramping up their operations around Chicagoland. They are now demanding that residents produce their paper...
14 Okt 202554min
Bill Kristol and Ty Cobb: Recapturing America
Peaceful protesters in Chicago and Portland have been so clever and effective at ridiculing the masked Stasi agents in their cities that the political momentum for putting troops on the street feels l...
13 Okt 20251h 11min
Jacob Soboroff and Sarah McBride: Democracy at the Ground Level
The administration may be trying to lay the groundwork for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act by invading Chicago, but the real human stories are breaking through: ordinary Chicagoans are outraged t...
10 Okt 20251h 12min
Sam Stein: A Bunch of Violent Keystone Cops
ICE and other armed federal agents are doing their best to incite violence in blue cities so they can help Trump realize his unfulfilled dream from 2020 to impose a military crackdown. At the same tim...
9 Okt 20251h 2min
Casey Newton: Lawlessness and Danger in Tech's Brave New World
Trump's TikTok deal looks like classic crony capitalism as well as open theft. But China has bigger fish to fry with trade than its TikTok algorithm—which led Congress last year to ban the app in the ...
8 Okt 202559min
Jake Tapper: Trump Is Making the Country Less Safe
A new kind of McCarthyism has settled in at the Justice Department, where career prosecutors—including those handling tough national security cases—are getting canned for voicing any opposition to pol...
7 Okt 20251h 1min
