The “Consumer Socialism” Trap
This past January, in his inaugural address, Zohran Mamdani memorably promised to “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the...
This past January, in his inaugural address, Zohran Mamdani memorably promised to “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the...
The official line remains the same: The 10-month campaign of strikes on small boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific...
Colorado’s rural Fourth Congressional District is Republican territory. In the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump carried it by 18 percentage...
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Donald Trump’s favorite movie is “Sunset Boulevard.” That movie tells the story of an aging silent film star, Norma Desmond,...
One evening in May, passengers boarded United Flight 661 from Newark, New Jersey, to Chicago. As the plane readied for...
On Juneteenth, I watched Doug Jones, the Democratic nominee for Alabama governor, deliver a speech at the Scottsboro Boys Museum,...
This past May, the globally famous pop star Lizzo was spotted on the side of a busy road in Los...
Even before the Supreme Court reached its decision in Trump v. Slaughter, the joke was that the decision would slaughter...
President Trump is set to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States today with an elaborate celebration in Washington,...
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Two hundred years ago, on July 4, 1826, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died within hours of each other. Today,...
George Washington, this nation’s first general, its inaugural president, the eponym of its capital city, left one of his most...
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY, in the middle of the presidential campaign, an essay in The Atlantic set out to explain...