Category: Politics

It wasn’t the economy. It wasn’t inflation, or anything else. It was how people perceive those things, which points to one overpowering answer.

Mark Krotov at n+1: Trump is America’s choice. No one, I think, is more responsible for this week’s result than Joe Biden.

Hafsa Kanjwali in Aeon: India is a postcolonial power. Its rule in Kashmir is colonial.

Four tremendous forces — AI, the energy transition, climate change and geopolitics — will accelerate over the next president’s term.

Democracy is best understood as a game, one in which the players pursue power and resolve conflicts through elections rather than brute force.

Roman empire lasted for a 1000 years, Ottoman 600 years, British 400 years. American empire is now about 150 years old…

In an unfortunate echo of Hillary Clinton’s loss in 2016, Harris spent far too much time trying to argue that Trump was unfit for the presidency.

On Trump winning the mandate for change: The realignment is real. The results this time weren’t, to put it in poker terms, a rare inside straight easily manipulable by nefarious forces.

Not even the fall of Dhaka in December 1971 can begin to compare with the scale of national humiliation involved.

When I teach young people today, it’s hard for them to grasp the magnitude and the seriousness of the Cold War and how it shaped every aspect of American life…

From the NY Times: A documentary filmmaker and a mathematician discuss our fear of numbers and its civic costs.

“The former President will return to the White House older, less inhibited, and far more dangerous than ever before.”