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Back to SearchAnne Applebaum: The Loss of 'Democratic Faith'
The U.S. has been a model for other aspiring democracies since 1776. At the same time, the idea of America as the leader of the democratic world has …
9 months ago
Heather Cox Richardson: An Attack on Our System of Government
Republicans in Congress know that what they’re doing is deeply unpopular—on healthcare, supporting troops in the streets, and on redistricting. That’…
9 months ago
JB Pritzker and Franklin Foer: Like Living in an Authoritarian Regime
After a court temporarily blocked the deployment of Guard troops in Illinois, ICE agents began ramping up their operations around Chicagoland. They a…
9 months ago
Bill Kristol and Ty Cobb: Recapturing America
Peaceful protesters in Chicago and Portland have been so clever and effective at ridiculing the masked Stasi agents in their cities that the politica…
9 months ago
Jacob Soboroff and Sarah McBride: Democracy at the Ground Level
The administration may be trying to lay the groundwork for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act by invading Chicago, but the real human stories are b…
9 months ago
Sam Stein: A Bunch of Violent Keystone Cops
ICE and other armed federal agents are doing their best to incite violence in blue cities so they can help Trump realize his unfulfilled dream from 2…
9 months, 1 week ago
Casey Newton: Lawlessness and Danger in Tech's Brave New World
Trump's TikTok deal looks like classic crony capitalism as well as open theft. But China has bigger fish to fry with trade than its TikTok algorithm—…
9 months, 1 week ago
Jake Tapper: Trump Is Making the Country Less Safe
A new kind of McCarthyism has settled in at the Justice Department, where career prosecutors—including those handling tough national security cases—a…
9 months, 1 week ago
Bill Kristol and Jane Fonda: The New 'Fierce Urgency of Now'
ICE is intentionally provoking violence in the nation’s cities and then glorifying it with their crack video team. Meanwhile, the rhetoric coming fro…
9 months, 1 week ago
Tom Nichols: All The Circuit Breakers Are Gone
President Trump’s loyalty purges continue. Prosecutors are fired from the U.S. attorney’s office in Eastern Virginia, including people who had nothin…
9 months, 1 week ago