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It’s been a rough few months for economic data parsers. The federal government shutdown meant an interruption of the usual torrent of official statistics, and those of us who use those numbers to make sense...

Last week, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a GOP-backed effort to repeal campaign finance limits on how much money parties can redirect to individual candidates. This case could expand the court’s 2010 Citizens United decision, which overturned...

Review of Rogue Elephant: How Republicans Went from the Party of Business to the Party of Chaos by Paul Heideman (Verso, 2025) In the days after January 6, 2021, when a mob of Trump supporters...

On a rainy day in August of this year, 105 Amazon delivery drivers employed by Cornucopia Logistics, one of the 4,400 delivery service partners (DSPs) with which the e-commerce company contracts, were told that they...

Before Americans imagined a democracy 250 years ago, they demanded land — the material independence that made civic life and resistance to tyranny possible. Thomas Jefferson believed that landownership was the foundation of a healthy republic, empowering...

A curious development is playing out in Europe today. At the same time as anti-migrant rhetoric and a politics of European nativism is on the rise across the continent, government schemes for the recruitment of...

Review of The National Interest: Politics After Globalization by Philip Cunliffe (Polity, 2025) Philip Cunliffe is an associate professor of international relations at University College London, an academic supporter of Brexit, and a prominent contributor...

Jocsan Rojas, sixteen, had traveled to Astoria from Staten Island with his mom, and the two were waiting excitedly to speak to mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. A junior at New York’s Harbor School, located on Governors...

Larry Summers, long-time stalwart of Democratic Party economics and academic governance, has been disgraced by the release of emails between himself and Jeffrey Epstein — a correspondence that continued long after Epstein’s conviction for sexual...

“This is pure gold,” says Khaldoun al-Mallah, holding up two bottles of cold water he bought in a shop rebuilt from the ruins of a neighborhood still struggling to recover, where electricity is scarce and...

The House passed the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Wednesday last week, which authorizes $901 billion in military spending — $8 billion more than Donald Trump asked for. An additional $156 billion was included in the Big...

The multitalented Rob Reiner is on everyone’s mind today after the appalling announcement that he and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead yesterday in an apparent double homicide. As favorite films flash through...