The Film That Explains Contemporary America
The Sorrow and the Pity has lessons for how authoritarianism takes root—and how to fight against it.
Ideas
Ukraine Has Finally Given Up on Trump
Zelensky has written off the United States.
The Scapegoat Scam
Hungarians stopped falling for an authoritarian’s trick.
Israel Moderates Are Losing the Democratic Party
Their position has become untenable. But liberal Zionists can adapt.
Pope James David Vance the First
The vice president has decided he’s a more accomplished theologian than Leo XIV.
A Pillar of the Economics Establishment Admits That It Was Wrong
In a new report, the World Bank thinks better of its old free-market absolutism.
History Is Running Backwards
Why reactionaries are taking over the world
We Shouldn’t Need Accountants
America’s insane tax-filing process
What Viktor Orbán’s Opponents Sacrificed to Beat Him
Hungary offers lessons in defeating right-wing populists.
A Blasphemous President
Bullying won’t work against a power that has little need to curry favor.