In the latest LGM Podcast, Dan and I explore the logic behind the book project on American hegemony that he has outlined thus far in several blog posts. We talk at length about what we mean...
I have a new essay up in the Boston Review arguing that the left needs to take the policymaking of global trade regimes seriously, offering real alternatives to the corporate-political.
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This is the grave of Henry David Thoreau. Born in 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts to a middling family and a pencil making father, Thoreau attended Harvard and found the experience rather trying, beginning to question whether he was learning anything of real value. During these years,...
Dahlia Lithwick on the inane civility arguments for Brett Kavanaugh, which are used to exempt conservatives from criticism more broadly: This phase was launched, in Kavanaugh’s case, with the Carpool.
Rick Gates testified that he stole with, on behalf of, and from Donald Trump's former campaign manager: Rick Gates — the star witness against President Trump’s ex-campaign manager — admitted.
I hate to interrupt a beloved narrative with some actual data, but: But a brand new data analysis from Georgetown University’s Free Speech Project suggests that this “crisis” is more than a little overblown. There have been relatively few incidents of speech being squelched on college campuses, and there’s in...
It's unfortunate that not surprising that a major publication would run a lengthy piece about white racist Americans. We've seen approximately 780,000 since November 2016. However, it is amazing that.
It's hard to overstate the vital importance of the upcoming Missouri referendum to overturn the state's newly enacted right to work law. One of many states where Republicans have passed.
If you send me $100 via Paypal I'll tell you who is really behind QAnon.
To his credit, Al Franken did the right thing and resigned, clearing the path for a solid Dem replacement to cruise to victory in November. Bob Menendez, conversely, did not,.
This is the grave of Henry Adams. Born in 1838 into one of the nation's most elite families, if not the single most elite, young Henry was the son of.