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Politics

Yevgeny Prigozhin: Act III, Scene II

A criminal turned caterer turned patriot

September 11, 2023 • by Peter Nohrnberg

I come to bury Prigozhin, not to praise him, nor dwell upon his three medals “For Merit to the Fatherland” awarded by the Kremlin....

Reviews

Can American Liberalism Reinvent Itself?

How obscuring the public side of public-private partnerships from FDR to Clinton rendered the liberal state politically precarious

June 27, 2023 • by Henry Tonks

The DLC, soon to anoint Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas as their chairman and presidential standard-bearer, were leaving the legacy of New Deal and postwar liberalism behind. They were, after all, “New Democrats.” Or were they? ...

Can American Liberalism Reinvent Itself?

Past Present

The Trump Indictment

Past Present Podcast, Episode 379

June 20, 2023 • by Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Natalia, Neil, and Niki discuss the indictment of former President Donald Trump. ...

Democracy

The 2023 Turkish Elections—A Roller Coaster Ride between Hope and Despair

The opponents of Erdogan feel “ghosted” by their leaders

June 14, 2023 • by Selin Bengi Gümrükçü

About a week after the runoff of the Turkish presidential elections in 2023, I had a vivid dream. In this dream, the elections extended to a third round, scheduled for a few weeks later, and the dates for diaspora voting were yet to be released. As a diaspora voter myself, ...

The 2023 Turkish Elections—A Roller Coaster Ride between Hope and Despair

Past Present

Car Buying and the History of Car Dealers

Past Present Podcast, Episode 377

June 6, 2023 • by Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young

Car salesmen play an underappreciated role in GOP power politics...

Car Buying and the History of Car Dealers

Toward a Postliberal Future?

Patrick J. Deneen’s Regime Change and the Meletus option

May 16, 2023 • by Geoffrey Kurtz

Deneen invokes Machiavelli, but at a deeper level his model is Meletus: the whole class of “ordinary people,” all of them, have the right political instincts, and only the liberal “ruling elite,” like the deplorable Socrates, is corrupting the American polity....

Europe & Central Asia

The Voice of Ukraine

“Break your heavy chains and water with the tyrants’ blood the freedom you have gained”

May 10, 2023 • by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed

For many in Ukraine, the war is not simply about the territory: it is about freedom and democracy, about the memory of identity eradication perpetrated by Russia....

Corporations

Taking on Ticketmaster

A California bill would eliminate a key tactic Ticketmaster uses to rip you off

May 8, 2023 • by Pat Garofalo

Pat Garofalo writes about a California bill that would eliminate a key tactic Ticketmaster uses to rip you off....

Activism

Atlanta’s Haunted Forest

Reckoning with a city’s settler colonial and racist legacies

May 3, 2023 • by Juliana Jones-Beaton

Atlanta is built on cycles of violence, and it is the permeating violence of convict labor, slavery, and settler colonialism that has led us here....

Capitalism

A World to Win

Talking with socialist feminist Nancy Fraser about her recent book, Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It

May 1, 2023 • by Nancy Fraser and Claire Potter

Claire Potter sits down with New School for Social Research political theorist Nancy Fraser to discuss her latest book, Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It (Verso, 2022)....

Democracy

Putin’s Atom

An excerpt from Paul Josephson’s Nuclear Russia

April 26, 2023 • by Paul Josephson

The concept of preempting an enemy’s nuclear weapons that was a central point of Soviet military thought has been reiterated by President Vladimir Putin....