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North America

When Politicians Make Nice

A conversation with sociologist Julia Sonnevend about her new book, Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics

September 11, 2024 • by Claire Potter and Julia Sonnevend

When United States president Joe Biden stumbled on the debate stage on June 27, 2024, it wasn’t that he just seemed old, it was that a man who had charmed voters for half a century with his bright smile, kindness, and folksy quips seemed to have vanished. ...

East Asia & Pacific

“Village NBA” in China

When sports fandom meets rural governance

September 9, 2024 • by Gil Hizi

The driver of bus number 25 knew where I was heading the moment I stepped inside. Although he met few foreigners during his three years on this line (as he later told me), he assumed that I could only be heading to the “NBA village” of Taipan in the Guizhou ...

North America

Project 2025 and Its Imaginative Hellscape

Apparently, Marxist elites have even compromised the fighting fiber of our troops

August 28, 2024 • by Carl Landauer

Over the summer, I committed myself to reading the entirety of Project 2025, a policy document compiled by the Heritage Foundation, with contributions from many veterans of the Trump administration, which I printed out in four thick three-ring binders. What follows is a review of the vision of governance the ...

Project 2025 and Its Imaginative Hellscape

South Asia

The Future for India’s Opposition

Democracy remains at risk

June 24, 2024 • by Udeepta Chakravarty

This result is certainly a setback for Modi, the BJP, and the Hindu nationalist Right more broadly; it is certainly a respite for opposition forces. But it would be foolhardy to celebrate this moment as a victory....

Democracy

Mexico’s First Woman President Is Not a Fluke

Constitutional reform has led the country to hold some of the highest proportions of women in politics worldwide

June 6, 2024 • by Adriana Piatti-Crocker

Mexico has just elected its first woman president, the result of well-designed women-friendly policy. ...

Mexico’s First Woman President Is Not a Fluke

Democracy

The Right Hand of the State and the American Left

Progressives are increasingly wary of the “national securitization of the state”

May 31, 2024 • by Basak Kus

The rift within the Democratic base stems not so much from disagreement over the left hand—which both sides support, albeit in varying ways and degrees—but over the excesses of the right hand....

The Right Hand of the State and the American Left

South Asia

The World’s “Largest Democracy”?

Modi leads India down a dark path

May 30, 2024 • by Udeepta Chakravarty

Corrosive nationalism and monarchic consciousness have become so normalized that other political forces, including the opposition, are now mimicking Modi’s practices....

Democracy

Liberalism Against Itself and the Return of the Cold War

An interview with Samuel Moyn

April 24, 2024 • by Julian Nicolai Hofmann and Samuel Moyn

Samuel Moyn annd Julian Nicolai Hofmann explore the resurgence of Cold War liberalism amid global crises. Through historical analysis, Moyn examines liberalism's evolution, highlighting its transformation and proposing a revival of its progressive elements for the future....

Liberalism Against Itself and the Return of the Cold War

Podcast

Goodbye, Beaver Cleaver

Episode 52: A conversation with historian Becky Nicolaides about The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in Los Angeles after 1945

April 19, 2024 • by Claire Potter

A conversation with historian Becky Nicolaides about her new book, The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in Los Angeles after 1945...

Podcast

MAGA Is the Newest, and Oldest, American Myth

Episode 51: A conversation with American Studies scholar Richard Slotkin about his new book, A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America

April 12, 2024 • by Claire Potter

Slotkin examines the history of the two Americas that exist side-by-side today, with their clashing and common myths, two American cultures that will meet at the ballot box in November 2024 to decide the fate of American democracy....

MAGA Is the Newest, and Oldest, American Myth

Middle East & North Africa

From the River to the Sea, There Is Space for Many Different Interpretations

Labeling the slogan “antisemitic” is a powerful tool used by Israel to deny the existence of the Palestinian people

April 9, 2024 • by Alon Confino and Amos Goldberg

It is often maintained that the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” expresses a genocidal and antisemitic intention. But this is generally not the case....

From the River to the Sea, There Is Space for Many Different Interpretations

Democracy

The Man Who Was Too Strong

Alexei Navalny will forever remain a symbol of hope for change in Russia

February 20, 2024 • by Anastasia Shteinert

One of the first rallies I covered as a journalist was the "voters' strike" in January 2018 in Saint Petersburg. Navalny declared the strike when he was barred from participating in the presidential elections due to his criminal record. Navalny's work and his courage often inspired me to continue my ...

Democracy

When Politicians Make Nice

A conversation with sociologist Julia Sonnevend about her new book, Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics

“Village NBA” in China

When sports fandom meets rural governance

Project 2025 and Its Imaginative Hellscape

Apparently, Marxist elites have even compromised the fighting fiber of our troops

The Future for India’s Opposition

Democracy remains at risk

Mexico’s First Woman President Is Not a Fluke

Constitutional reform has led the country to hold some of the highest proportions of women in politics worldwide

The Right Hand of the State and the American Left

Progressives are increasingly wary of the “national securitization of the state”

The World’s “Largest Democracy”?

Modi leads India down a dark path

Liberalism Against Itself and the Return of the Cold War

An interview with Samuel Moyn

Goodbye, Beaver Cleaver

Episode 52: A conversation with historian Becky Nicolaides about The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in Los Angeles after 1945

MAGA Is the Newest, and Oldest, American Myth

Episode 51: A conversation with American Studies scholar Richard Slotkin about his new book, A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America

From the River to the Sea, There Is Space for Many Different Interpretations

Labeling the slogan “antisemitic” is a powerful tool used by Israel to deny the existence of the Palestinian people

The Man Who Was Too Strong

Alexei Navalny will forever remain a symbol of hope for change in Russia

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