Donald Trump’s imposition of a 25 percent tariff of Canadian goods, coupled with his threat to annex Canada as the fifty-first state, is one of the most antagonistic actions of the first months of his...
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David Leonhardt has written a detailed article for the New York Times arguing that the Danish Social Democrats and their leader, Mette Frederiksen, could be a model for the center left throughout Europe and North...
The 1996 movie Twister contains a memorable moment of bovine elevation. As a powerful pair of tornadoes touch down, a cow suddenly flies across the screen. “Cow,” says Jo (Helen Hunt). “We got cows,” says...
President Donald Trump’s environmental regulators are advancing a proposal to block states from warning consumers about herbicides and other agricultural products in their food, according to federal documents reviewed by the Lever. Among the substances...
Can a party mount a comeback by rejecting its own activist base? Democrats seem to want to use Donald Trump’s second term to test the idea. This certainly is not what the Right has done....
Once Russia invaded Ukraine, many seemed determined to deduce Russia’s war aims from its sentimental-ultranationalist folklore oriented toward the home front (and pleasing it) rather than examine Russia’s recent history, political economy, its position in...
Review of Left Adrift: What Happened to Liberal Politics by Timothy Shenk (Columbia Global Reports, 2024) and Beyond Social Democracy: The Transformation of the Left in Emerging Knowledge Societies, Silja Häusermann and Herbert Kitschelt, eds....
Andrew Cuomo is presenting himself as a sensible, competent executive who can pull New York City back from its current leadership crisis. His candidacy announcement video claims that he will bring back a new era...
Review of Pourquoi l’écologie perd toujours by Clément Sénéchal (Éditions du Seuil, 2024) In 2024, average global surface temperatures were 1.55 degrees Celsius higher than preindustrial levels — the latest in a string of dismal...
On the surface, this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was a garish pageant of jubilance and cruelty. But beneath this flashy exterior lurked something more serious: the outline of a transnational far-right coalition hell-bent...
Review of The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It) by Michael A. McCarthy (Verso Books, 2025) Michael McCarthy’s The Master’s Tools opens with an evocative description of life...
The first few weeks of Donald J. Trump’s second term in office have provided no shortage of weirdness, but the choice of Robert F. Kennedy Jr as secretary of health and human services was high...
