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When Donald Trump assumed the presidency in January 2025, the Pink Tide governments in Latin America were losing ground. The approval rating of Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, reached the lowest of his...

You might think that Syria had entered a new era. Speaking to the United Nations’ General Assembly on September 24 — the first Syrian head of state to do so in six decades — interim...

For years, Democrats have been flummoxed by organized religion. The party has long stood for the separation of church and state. But when it comes time to court religious voters by speaking to their values,...

The Trump-Vance administration says it got the message loud and clear from its drubbing last Tuesday: it needs to do better on alleviating the country’s cost-of-living crisis. “We had an interesting evening, and we learned...

“What a stadium, man,” Liam Gallagher shouted at the audience, just over thirty-seven minutes into Oasis’s first of two sold-out shows at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey — an 82,500-seater venue. “Nearly as...

Why did the Democrats cave in on the shut down? It seems clear that the main issue was not electoral backlash, since most of the senators who caved are not up for reelection, and the...

Amid a lobbying blitz and a flood of campaign cash, senators inserted language into this week’s emergency spending bill that eliminates rules designed to prevent food contamination and foodborne illnesses at farms and restaurants, according...

An invitation to visit the White House has always been the pinnacle of political whitewashing, at least from a Western perspective. In the Oval Office this Monday was Ahmed al-Sharaa, after he mutated overnight from...

The sun had only just begun to inch over Rio de Janeiro’s horizon when it began. On October 28, in the tangled shantytown of flimsy dwellings that cluster beneath a Baroque church in the Penha...

Half a century ago this week, Australia was rocked by the removal of its prime minister, Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), by the governor-general, Sir John Kerr. Whitlam, a solid social democrat...

The day after New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech last week, the political commentariat appeared untethered from reality. Veteran liberal talking head Van Jones said that Mamdani’s “tone was sharp” and that he...

Dan Hicks There are two very different kinds of monumentality at play here. The book traces how they have unfolded in real time. On the one hand, there are the dead white men whose memory...