Trump’s National Garden of American Heroes will be a monument to randomness and a lazy, perhaps unthinking, version of the ideology he is supposed to despise.
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The U.S. government is activating a suite of algorithmic surveillance tools, developed in concert with major tech companies, to monitor and criminalize immigrants’ speech.
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An interview with Quinn Slobodian, the author of Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right.
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The government funds institutions that stretch across American society. The Trump administration is demanding the relinquishment of constitutional rights to keep the money flowing.
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Trump has destroyed a federal system of labor relations that helped contain conflict for decades. The move could have unintended consequences.
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The administration is attempting to incapacitate the redistributive and social protective arms of the state, while exploiting its vast bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport.
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If the secretary of state can simply declare a legal permanent resident deportable based on their constitutionally protected activities, the First Amendment no longer applies to noncitizens.
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There will surely be turf wars and palace intrigue within the administration, but there is little reason to think that its core figures will fracture in the pursuit of their basic goal: to break the twentieth-century state.
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An interview with Jessica Pishko, author of The Highest Law in the Land.
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The documentary No Other Land won an Oscar, but the conditions it depicts in the West Bank are only getting worse.
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Following the teachings of Murray Rothbard, Javier Milei wants to dismantle the state while also using it to consolidate his power.
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I’m Still Here defies the far right’s attempts to redeem Brazil’s military dictatorship. But it suggests a tidier closure to the regime’s disappearances than many real families have experienced.
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A discussion between Brett Christophers and Adam Tooze, moderated by Kate Aronoff, about the climate crisis and the limits of capitalism.
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Organized labor and its allies can and must do much more to respond to the crisis created by DOGE and the Trump administration.
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Red state governors and legislators are parroting Trump’s every move, promising to slash spending, and looking to tear down federal standards or guardrails that get in their way.
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The Chinese government has rebuffed bold consumption stimulus policy. But boosting domestic household spending is precisely what the country needs to achieve healthy growth.
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Guantánamo represents a place beyond the reach of morality and the law, where America’s most dangerous enemies can be thrown, never to be seen again.
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The chances for durable peace may depend on Trump’s whims.
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The rapid fall of Michel Barnier’s government will test the unity of the French left.
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If the motive for the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is the denial of coverage for essential medical services, what does it say that there could be tens of millions of suspects?
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The parts of the Biden agenda most targeted at addressing women’s economic vulnerabilities were never passed.
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Following the U.S. election, European foreign policy experts are reviving ideas about strategic autonomy from 2016. They fail to understand how much has changed in the last eight years.
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Trump has remade Americans, and to defeat Trumpism requires nothing less than the left doing the same.
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Progressives need to fight and organize for a politics that focuses on class inequality in a consistent and persuasive way.
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Without confronting the economic conditions that gave rise to right-wing populism, the Harris campaign could not meaningfully address a deepening crisis of liberal democracy.
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Israelis have seemingly grown accustomed to the atrocities of the Gaza war while continuing their day-to-day lives.
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Trump has invoked a 1950s mass deportation campaign as a blueprint for his nativist agenda. Its history shows that abuse and dehumanization are intrinsic to immigrant detention.
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Eight years into the fascism debate, few skeptics seem willing to admit that they were wrong.
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