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Trump 0.2: The Failing Revolution
The 2025 Trump was supposed to be a more refined version of the 2017 original. But according to National Interest editor Jacob Heilbrunn, Trump 2.0 h…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
The Arrival of the American Future: Stephen Marche on the Crisis in 2025 United States
Whither America? For the Canadian writer Stephen Marche, that’s no longer the question. America in 2025, for Marche, has already withered. The Toront…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Bethanne's Best Books of 2025: Where Fact & Fiction Blur
The best fiction seems real, the best non-fiction books read like fiction. That, at least, is Bethanne Patrick’s take on the best books of 2025. Sele…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
2025 as the New 1925: Will Crypto be Trump's Teapot Dome Scandal?
Might 2025 turn out to be the new 1925? In other words, are we currently in the Roaring Twenties and on the brink of another Great Depression? This h…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Ray Suarez on 2025: America's Last Idealist Looks Back at a "Jaw-Dropping" Year
“If they want to put on my tombstone ‘The Last Idealist’, that’s fine,” the iconic (and I don’t use that word lightly) American journalist Ray Suarez…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Hollywood's Last Dance: Time Warner and the Death of the American Dream Machine
So what does the latest Time Warner brouhaha tell us about the state of America? According to Daniel Bessner, host of the American Prestige podcast, …
10 months ago
Big Brother Down Under: Is it 1984 Already in Australia?
It’s been quite a week in tech. The Australian social media ban, the Netflix vs Paramount fight over Warner Bros & the Disney-OpenAI deal. That Was T…
10 months ago
Mount Rushmore: America's Most Monumental Contradiction
Mount Rushmore, with its images of four Presidents carved into the Black Hills of South Dakota, is America’s most identifiable monument. It might als…
10 months ago
George Packer's Emergency: When Facts Fail, Turn to Fiction
George Packer is one of the most celebrated non-fiction writers on contemporary America. So why, in his new book The Emergency, has he turned to fi…
10 months ago
How 9/11 Broke the News, Both Then and Now: CNN's Finest Hour Was Also Its Last
The CNN anchor Carol Lin was on air on September 11, 2001 when the first plane hit the tower. So, in that now seemingly distant broadcast media age, …
10 months ago