Thanks to conservative justices, the law doesn’t allow him to compel cities, like Minneapolis, to bow to his immigration orders, and so he used ICE thuggery. It backfired. Now what?
J.D. Vance
Posted inPolitics
How the Murder of Good Changes the Stakes for Good
ICE won’t melt, but traumatic events of this kind create their own force fields that bring change.
Posted inFeatured
How National Service Can De-Polarize America
Nowadays, it’s less about doing good than pathways to jobs and restoring face-to-face connections that can help bridge the divide.
Posted inPolitics
The Disinformation Is Coming From Inside the House
Combatting information warfare is challenging. The EU offers some instructive lessons.
Posted inPolitics
J.D. Vance Is the Most Disliked New Vice President in History
The public isn’t taking to his obnoxious style, which bodes well for politics in the post-Trump era.
Posted inRussia’s War on Ukraine
How Ukraine Can Survive Without America
The European Union has the means to stop Russian aggression—if it has the will
Posted inRussia’s War on Ukraine
Trump’s Moral Blindness Should Disqualify Him as a Peacemaker
The president can’t tell the difference between the aggressor and the victim in Ukraine.
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Trump Provokes Fear in the Western Alliance
Trump’s Phone Call to Putin About Ukraine Provokes Fear in the Western Alliance: Whatever happens in Russia’s war on Ukraine, there is trouble ahead between Washington and its European allies.
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Trump and Musk’s Game of Thrones
The South African-born hand of King Trump is doing the leader’s bidding, and their twin ambitions are proving very hard to thwart.
Posted inBooks
Hillbilly Legacy
In December 1763, the “Paxton Boys,” a vigilante group of white settlers on the Pennsylvania frontier, killed and scalped six Conestoga Indians living under the colonial government’s protection on a contested tract of land. Two weeks later, the vigilantes rode into neighboring Lancaster and shot, scalped, and dismembered 14 more Conestoga—three elderly men, three women, […]
