Every time a president of the United States proclaims himself to be in favor of returning power to states, cities, and neighborhoods, and opposed to our trying to solve national problems from Washington, he is echoing, probably unconsciously, a little book published in 1953 called The Quest for Community, by Robert Nisbet. Nisbet’s work is the […]
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Democrats have multiple paths to the Senate majority but losing their contrarian member would make every one of them harder.
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Even before Donald Trump launched his ill-advised war on Iran, America’s allies were already pronouncing the end of the era of U.S. leadership of the free world. “The West as we knew it no longer exists,” European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said in April of 2025 as she tried to rally governments in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe to counter massive tariffs that Trump had recently imposed. “The old order is not coming back,” declared Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney this past January in a widely reported speech at Davos after fresh attempts by Trump to seize…
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Surveys show that large swaths of Americans, across parties and political beliefs, accept and even endorse political violence.
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Risky financial maneuvers and mountains of debt mean the AI economy is in trouble, says Vanderbilt’s Asad Ramzanali. America needs to get ready.
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The insurgent Maine Democrat just ran the incumbent governor out of his Senate primary after overcoming his controversial Reddit posts. Will McMorrow get equal grace?
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We can’t seem to accept that terribly gifted people can do terrible things.
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