For decades, mainstream economists insisted that consumers benefit from the dominance of chains like Walmart. New evidence shows otherwise.
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Posted inForeign Policy
As Trump’s Greenland Threat Grows, Europe Begins to Find Its Voice
Trump appeasers are being challenged by reformers who take a tougher stand with the rogue American president.
Posted inPolitics
Mamdani: The Unique Voice of NYC’s First African-Born Mayor
With a global platform, Mamdani can call attention to human rights abuses in his birth country, Uganda, particularly those against the musician-turned-politician Bobi Wine.
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Tatiana Schlossberg (1990-2025)
My personal admiration for her Proustian writing and her Job-like mother.
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The Trump Boomerang Effect: Bari Weiss, Meet Ozymandias
While Trump muscles the media and renames the Kennedy Center, history will get the last laugh. Just ask the good people of Appleton, Wisconsin.
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“Our Shared Humanity Is Our Greatest Strength”
For all of the talk of division, the nation is more united than you might think.
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The Kalven Trap
University leaders are increasingly clinging to “viewpoint diversity” and institutional neutrality in the face of MAGA assaults. This is a mistake.
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What Pete Hegseth Could Learn from Ulysses S. Grant
Trump’s Defense Secretary said he’d stop drinking if confirmed. A recovering alcoholic explains why the first year of sobriety is so hard and how the Civil War general and president got control.
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Elie Wiesel’s “Wounded Faith”
The late Nobel laureate’s lessons for an age of masked ICE raids, antisemitism, and dehumanization.
Posted inHigher Education
The Quiet War on Hispanic-Serving Colleges
Trump’s bid to strip race from policy has landed squarely on the institutions educating the country’s future.
