Category: Politics

Working the System: For or Against Democracy

Mary L Trump at The Good in Us: The system which, depending on your perspective,…

‘He Likes Scaring People’: How Modi’s Right-hand Man, Amit Shah, Runs India

Atul Dev in The Guardian: Today, Amit Shah isn’t home minister for Gujarat, but all…

Her Name is Natalie Harp. She’s 32. And She Has Unbelievable Access to the Man Who Might be President Again.

Marc A. Caputo at The Bulwark: WHENEVER DONALD TRUMP BRANDISHES a stack of papers or…

Mayor Eric Adams Looks to Rome to Solve NYC’s Migrant Problem

By Justin Klawans at The Week: It is no secret that New York City has…

A United States of Europe

Fernanda Gallo at Aeon: By 1941, as most European states were under the yoke of…

Tribalism

by Habib Khan, Quetta: Last week, fans of the Tottenham Hotspur football Club in England…

This Week’s Best Cartoons

Election 2024; Incumbency; Media Polls; Debate; Pornstar…

Israel, Gaza, and McNamara’s Lessons for War and Peace

by Ashutosh Jogalekar at 3 Quarks Daily: Once again the world faces death and destruction,…

Israel Can’t Win This War—Palestinians Told Us That From the Beginning

Peter Beinart in The Beinart Notebook: Our guest this week is someone I admire greatly,…

‘The Use of Political Power to Achieve Economic Gains’

by Umair Javed at Dawn: The Chinese state is remarkable in that it has struck…

A Top U.S. Diplomat on What America Gets Wrong

By Nahal Toosi at Politico: Victoria Nuland has long been known as a relentless, even…

Democracy Has Run Out of Future

Ivan Krastev & Leonard Benardo in Foreign Policy: We live today amid the dregs of…