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Unmusical Chairs

It’s often forgotten that the idea of the political spectrum—of politics having a left and right—has a physical origin. It comes from the seating arrangements at the National Assembly of…

Four More Years

by Thomas Frank,

The Trump reelection nightmare and how we can stop it

Empty Suits

by Ian MacDougall,

Defamation law and the price of dissent

The Uncertainty Principle

by Walter Kirn,

The first year of the Trump presidency is behind us. The unimaginable has become the historical. But time, the reputed healer of all wounds, has somehow only aggravated this one.…

The Minds of Others

by David Bromwich, Garth Greenwell, Hanif Abdurraqib, Kelly Clancy, Laila Lalami, Mychal Denzel Smith, T. M. Luhrmann,

The art of persuasion in the age of Trump

Preaching to The Choir

by Rebecca Solnit,

Once, on a river-rafting trip through the Grand Canyon, I traveled with a charming, good-humored man who happened to run an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. He liked…

Star Search

by Lisa Rab,

The race to rebuild the Democratic Party

San Francisco

by Anna Wiener,

Since Inauguration Day, across Silicon Valley I’ve been hearing software engineers who earn six figures talk about solidarity, collective action, and the rise of labor against capital. In July, word…

It’s My Party

by Andrew Cockburn,

The Democrats struggle to rise from the ashes

The March on Everywhere

by Leslie Jamison,

The ragged glory of female activism

Echt Deutsch

by Yascha Mounk,

How the refugee crisis is changing a nation’s identity