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The Biggest Political Divide Is Not Left vs. Right
The biggest divide in our politics isn’t between Democrats and Republicans, or even left and right. It’s between people who follow politics closely, …
2 years, 1 month ago
The View From the Israeli Right
On Tuesday I got back from an eight-day trip to Israel and the West Bank. I happened to be there on the day that Benny Gantz resigned from the war ca…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Economic Theory That Explains Why Americans Are So Mad
There’s something weird happening with the economy. On a personal level, most Americans say they’re doing pretty well right now. And according to the…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Republican Party’s Decay Began Long Before Trump
After Donald Trump was convicted last week in his hush-money trial, Republican leaders wasted no time in rallying behind him. There was no chance the…
2 years, 1 month ago
Your Mind Is Being Fracked
The steady dings of notifications. The 40 tabs that greet you when you open your computer in the morning. The hundreds of unread emails, most of them…
2 years, 2 months ago
‘Artificial Intelligence?’ No, Collective Intelligence.
A.I.-generated art has flooded the internet, and a lot of it is derivative, even boring or offensive. But what could it look like for artists to coll…
2 years, 2 months ago
A Conservative Futurist and a Supply-Side Liberal Walk Into a Podcast …
“The Jetsons” premiered in 1962. And based on the internal math of the show, George Jetson, the dad, was born in 2022. He’d be a toddler right now. A…
2 years, 2 months ago
The Disastrous Relationship Between Israel, Palestinians and the U.N.
The international legal system was created to prevent the atrocities of World War II from happening again. The United Nations partitioned historic Pa…
2 years, 2 months ago
This Is a Very Weird Moment in the History of Drug Laws
Drug policy feels very unsettled right now. The war on drugs was a failure. But so far, the war on the war on drugs hasn’t entirely been a success, e…
2 years, 2 months ago
Watching the Protests From Israel
Ultimately, the Gaza war protests sweeping campuses are about influencing Israeli politics. The protesters want to use economic divestment, American …
2 years, 2 months ago