Democracy depends on the free exchange of ideas. Help sustain it with a tax-deductible donation today. This is the first installment of a new bimonthly column by David Austin Walsh. “A moment of ...

How neoliberals fell in love with “human nature”—the glue that still unites the divergent factions of the new right.

Mutual aid is the brigade of volunteers mucking out basements after a flood, the church basement food pantry staffed by ...

In an image shared around the world, Elon Musk is seen grunting while waving a chainsaw over his head at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington in February. Perhaps less ...

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An immigrant to the United States with a green card walks into his apartment building. Homeland Security agents enter, handcuff him, whisk him into detention hundreds of miles away, and present him ...

Every ruling power tells itself stories to justify its rule. Nobody is the villain in their own history. Professed good intentions and humane principles are a constant. Even Heinrich Himmler, in ...

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers,” Dick the Butcher declares in Shakespeare’s Henry VI: Part 2. Trump understands that for authoritarianism to prevail, the first thing to do is to ...

In the midst of every crisis, the cliché goes, lies a great opportunity. And there has been no greater crisis for Israel than October 7, the country’s most devastating security failure under its most ...