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Articles tagged with trump
Noam Chomsky on his new book, the Capitol coup attempt, 2020 unrest, and the prospects for progress under Biden.
The Republican Party has become a white nationalist party. If old fashioned politics can’t change that, we must consider alternatives.
Joe Biden positioned himself as the “return to normalcy” candidate. But normalcy is not something we can afford—we must actively resist it.
Unless we bolster its foundations, our enfeebled democracy won’t be able to solve any of the daunting problems Biden has singled out as priorities.
Part two of a conversation on voter turnout, vote counting, and what we can expect now.
Tax policies like New Jersey’s new Millionaires Tax are morally and economically essential.
West German witchcraft trials after World War II reveal how political rupture can fuel magical thinking. What lessons might we draw for our own age of QAnon conspiracies, anti-vaccination, and strange COVID-19 cures?
The party’s fifty-year strategy has reached an electoral dead end.
The simultaneous success of Trump and Brexit was no coincidence: white supremacist politics are international in scope and often share entwined histories.
The Frankfurt School on the appeal of authoritarianism—and how to counteract it.
