For American defenders of economic liberalism and free markets, China’s rise has been deeply disorientating. Unmoved by concerns about the market distorting effects of picking winners, the Communist Party of China has engaged in a...
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On Tuesday, February 5, 2025, the second Trump administration announced that it was slashing the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), pulling almost all of its employees from their jobs. Response from the liberal...
If you’re in one of the nine million organizations that use Google Workspace, your company likely just received notice that it’ll have to fork over a lot more cash to use its ubiquitous office applications....
Interview by Meagan Day If you’ve noticed that the Right’s female beauty standards switched overnight from realtor mom to blackshirt Barbie and are wondering what this augurs for American politics, we have just the podcast...
In recent weeks, a feeling of national unity has surged in Canada in response to Donald Trump’s suggestion that the United States could annex its northern neighbor. Hats emblazoned with “Canada Is Not for Sale”...
The Trump administration has been in power for just over a month, and in that time it has worked to dismantle basic institutions of American government and democracy as quickly as possible, engaging in gross...
“I have to admit that about 75 hours in this country have made me pretty nervous,” Francesca Albanese told a small audience in a Berlin newspaper office last week — including several riot police, observing...
Review of Beauty Is in the Street: Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe by Joachim C. Häberlen (Penguin, 2024) One February morning in 1976, residents of Bologna woke up to strange sounds on the airwaves. The...
On November 1, 2000, less than a week before a presidential election in which health care was a central issue, Americans tuning into Star Trek: Voyager got a critical look at a dystopian alien medical...
The Trump administration has withdrawn a slate of proposed carbon dioxide safety regulations inspired by a pipeline failure that sent nearly fifty people to the hospital with “zombie”-like symptoms, and the new regulator overseeing these...
On Monday, February 17, in a series of demonstrations across Indonesia, students challenged President Prabowo Subianto. The protests continued all week, culminating in major events on Friday. Organized under the hashtag #IndonesiaGelap or #DarkIndonesia, the...
Review of Believe: Why Everyone Should be Religious by Ross Douthat (Zondervan, 2025) How seriously should we take a “boom in religion”? The thriller writer, wit, and Catholic priest Ronald Knox asked that question back...
