When Medicare for All took center stage in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, opponents undercut growing support for the initiative by homing in on how it would raise taxes and eliminate health insurers. Those opponents...
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Review of Capitalism: A Global History by Sven Beckert (Penguin Press, 2025) Sven Beckert’s doorstop of a book is supremely ambitious, an insightful and well-illustrated history by the Harvard historian who has been a pioneer...
At a time when Democratic voters are demanding new, antiestablishment leaders, the Democratic Party’s power brokers are pushing a seventy-seven-year-old candidate for a key 2026 Senate race who’s spent the past six years as governor...
In December 2023, just as ChatGPT marked its first birthday, Politico asked Signal president and tech critic Meredith Whittaker which tech trend she thought was most “overhyped.” The role of a critic, the interviewer seemed...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may be moving forward with its reported plans to buy up vacant Amazon-style warehouses to create “mega” detention centers, new procurement records reviewed by the Lever reveal. On Friday, the agency inked a new $29.9...
It’s 1975, and Wall Street has just refused to purchase New York City’s short-term notes. It’s nothing less than a coordinated credit strike that instantly lit the match on the worst fiscal crisis in the...
A House of Dynamite is written like an op-ed. Its characters speak in terse paragraphs that tend to close with punchy kickers. And true to the op-ed genre, all the film’s big ideas are communicated...
Review of King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation by Scott Anderson (Doubleday, 2025) Scott Anderson’s new book, King of Kings, takes its title from the English translation...
If you keep tabs on the more unsavory segments of the American right, you’ve probably heard the phrase “heritage Americans” in the last year. It’s used by the most militant anti-immigrant conservatives, who reject inclusive...
Review of Collaborations: Enquête sur l’extrême droite et les milieux d’affaires by Laurent Mauduit (La Découverte, 2025) In 2024, the blue-chip companies on France’s CAC 40 stock index issued a record-breaking €98.2 billion in dividends....
More than a decade ago, I asked a question that seemed fit for a Black Mirror episode: Who cannot be put on a president’s extrajudicial kill list? Only that query wasn’t something out of a dystopian sci-fi series. It was in...
On November 16, Chile held its first general election since former student movement leader Gabriel Boric won the 2021 presidential runoffs as a candidate of a promising new left coalition. This time, however, a hard...
