Every generation gets to recreate the environmental movement to suit its own purposes
Some big-picture reactions to a recent NYT piece
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The Making of the Penha Massacre
On October 28, Rio de Janeiro’s police besieged the Penha favela for 15 hours, killing at least 121 people in the city’s worst massacre. Brazil’s right is hailing it as an anti-crime victory while ove
The Greatest Illusion
Trade Specialization Does Not Make War Less Likely And Cannot Be Undone Quickly
The Zohran Mamdani Model of Exuberant Good Cheer
The relentless negativity and performative cruelty of American politics is exhausting. Following Zohran Mandani’s lead, leftists can distinguish ourselves with a concrete political program paired with
Did prison just replace mental hospitals?
Deconstructing a statistical myth
Hospice Commodification and the Limits of Antitrust
As hospice care is increasingly dominated by private equity firms, an antitrust response, while necessary, has the potential to normalize the language of the market as the default mode for discussing
The Whitewashing of Ahmed al-Sharaa
Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa was just welcomed to Donald Trump’s White House. His visit represents Washington’s embrace of a sectarian government with little respect for democracy. Ahmed al-Sharaa
The Government Shutdown Deal Is Endangering Food Safety
After intense lobbying and major campaign donations, the emergency spending bill intended to end the federal government shutdown is including language abolishing rules designed to prevent food contami
Democrats Caved in the Shutdown Because of the Filibuster
For Democrats, the main issue in the shutdown wasn’t electoral backlash — it was the filibuster. Leadership feared its removal, viewing it as a safeguard to keep the party’s rising left wing in check.
Trump’s Year of Living Dangerously
How Trump's second term is reshaping America and the world.
The Folly of India’s Illiberal Hegemony
China gains from New Delhi’s support for South Asian autocrats.
Tuesday discussion post
The COPs’ Fatal Flaw
It's the sovereignty, stupid
Why Trump Declared War on Immigrants
Explaining the ideological roots of America First
What if Italy joined the Central Powers in World War I?
A break from actual news
How Catherine Connolly Won Ireland’s Presidential Election
Catherine Connolly takes office as Ireland’s president today. Her left-wing insurgent campaign took the Irish political establishment by surprise, winning a record number of votes and proving the Left
How the US Intervened to Sabotage Angola’s Independence
Fifty years ago today, Angola gained its independence after centuries of Portuguese domination. But US officials like Henry Kissinger were already working hard to orchestrate a devastating proxy war t
Fictional Intelligence: Imagining the Future of (Nuclear) War
In a new Europe Dispatch, Minna Ålander writes about FICINT and what movies tell us about the present and the future. And how Trump is encouraging nuclear proliferation.
Cuba’s Role in Angola Changed the Course of African History
When Angola gained independence in 1975, the Cuban military came to the new government’s defense. The mission had global reverberations, from hastening the fall of South African apartheid to reshaping
Ukraine’s Hardest Winter
With the Donbas in peril, Europe must pressure Russia now.
A Hidden Hunger Crisis Is Destabilizing the World
Food insecurity provokes violence—and weakens even wealthy states.
The problem with condo liability rules
How well-intentioned policy choked the housing market
If You Were to Say "White People Have Good Genes," Yes, That Would Be Racist!
apropos of no recent celebrity controversies, I swear
How a German domestic spy agency classified a random man as a "potential right-wing extremist" for no reason and nearly ruined his life
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has published an amazing story about an anonymous professor in Hessen and his run-in with the Hessian Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
The Shutdown Surrender
I just... I mean... Whatever.
13 thoughts on the end of the shutdown
It’s about the filibuster much more than health care
Trump made a huge blunder on the shutdown. So why did Democrats cave anyway?
It's not entirely Chuck Schumer's fault, but the party needs new leadership.
Saturday Commentary and Review #198
Epstein the International Fixer, What The Trump-Xi Deal Means, The Triumph of the Managerial State, Pittsburgh vs. Cleveland: A Tale of Two Cities, Ancient Argentinians
Calls for Central Bank Independence Are Myopic
Donald Trump’s attacks on the Federal Reserve have been met with ardent defenses of central bank independence. Yet the Fed has always been vulnerable to political pressure, something that the insisten
The Digital Confessional
Why AI Chats Should Receive Legal Privilege
Democrats Caved in the Shutdown Fight. Unions Let Them.
The government shutdown was a test showing where progressive forces are strong and where they’re weak. The results are in after last night’s Democratic capitulation to the GOP: most top union leaders
The Broken Promises of the Green Transition
A decade ago, Western governments pitched the green transition as a solution to reindustrialization and economic decline. The failure of these policies to produce well-paying jobs has triggered a righ
The Socialist Who Helped Bring Marx to America
The early-20th-century socialist and New York mayoral candidate Morris Hillquit saw liberalism and democracy as providing a foundation for a transition to socialism. Alongside Eugene Debs, he helped t
Start Demagoguing Against the Old
It's better to adopt political narratives that get closer to the truth
“Affordability” is just high nominal prices
I think Trump is totally screwed on this one
The Long Anti-Tax Tradition of American Oligarchy
Throughout U.S. history, oligarchs have fettered the tax power of the state to ensure that the government would be too feeble to rein in their power. The Trump Administration's capricious tariffs and
Francesca Albanese and the Palestinian Fight for Survival
The US sanctions against Francesca Albanese are testament to her courage speaking up for the Palestinians. If international law lies buried underneath the rubble of Gaza, truth-tellers like Albanese h
One Day, Britain’s Monuments Will Fall
Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism,” presenting colonialism and enslavement as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past bu
How Netanyahu Survives
Divide and conquer in Gaza and at home.
America’s Self-Defeating China Strategy
A policy that confuses strength and weakness.
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