Kimye’s rewriting of some common cultural scripts about family might have felt like a political act, but their mission also came with a clear subtext: commerce. (“I am Shakespeare in the flesh. Walt Disney. Nike. ...
A fundamental aspect of politics is that domestic events impact international ones and the reverse. This month we have witnessed two events that appear to capture this truism. The visit to Taiwan by House Speaker ...
The past two election cycles have seen an explosion of attention given to “echo chambers,” or communities where a narrow set of views makes people less likely to challenge their own opinions. Much of this ...
Since 2018, with the election of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico, Latin America’s political landscape has been turning to the left following several years of conservative dominance. Argentina soon followed in 2019 with the ...
Comment on this story Comment The US Supreme Court’s decision last month to strike down an 111-year-old New York law mostly prohibiting the concealed carry of firearms has not won a lot of admirers in ...
Despite the absence of presidents from some of the region’s key countries, the US-hosted Summit of the Americas, taking place in Los Angeles this week, can serve as a venue of delicate dialogue and incremental ...
This is a story about America, an America that, even today, exists largely beyond the serious attention of mainstream politics and news media. Rather, these institutions ignore or marginalize the story’s deeper significance, at a ...
Retired Gen. David Petraeus waves after a retirement ceremony in Arlington, Va., 2011. (Susan Walsh / AP Photo) EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive ...
Despite the heroism shown in the massive airlift effort, the withdrawing troops left between 100 and 250 Americans, tens of thousands of Afghans eligible for protection from former US comrades, and an entire nation under ...
As regular readers know, I am a little (okay, more than a little) obsessed with and spend a lot of time reading about the Revolution, the Articles of the Confederation, the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention, and ...
