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Trump’s war on public education

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One Elite, Two Elites, Red Elite, Blue Elite

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The uncoupling of urban and rural America.

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Revenge of the Courtier

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Curzio Malaparte was never an authentic dissident, only a shit-stirrer.

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The Tip of Russia’s Spear

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On Wagner’s proxy war in Libya.

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January 29, 2025

A Ceasefire Is Not Enough

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Biden’s Final Humiliation

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We’ve no shortage of proof.

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The Failure of Liberal Zionism

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Israel has behaved exactly as its harshest critics predicted.

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Current issue, no. 77

Eastern Promises

Dylan Levi King

In a Tokyo of tourists, the citizens have become strangers

Bang the World

Adrian Nathan West

Passport Bros and the manosphere

Doctors Without Politics

Mary Turfah

What can medical workers do to stop genocide?

From the Archives

What comes after McConnellism?

In the Kingdom of Mitch

Dave Denison

March 2019

Why bother with mass appeal, when you’re rebuilding the ancien régime?

Mouthbreathing Machiavellis Dream of a Silicon Reich

Corey Pein

May 2014

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February 20

Perfecting the Art of Pedantry

Bailey Trela

Augusto Monterroso’s Rube Goldberg machine of self-critique.

February 19

Death Is Young

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Tove Jansson’s seniors are not going gentle into that good night.

February 19

Quid Game

Charlie Dulik

How Eric Adams sold out New York to Donald Trump.

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Perfecting the Art of Pedantry

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February 19

Death Is Young

Bradley Babendir

Tove Jansson’s seniors are not going gentle into that good night.

February 19

Quid Game

Charlie Dulik

How Eric Adams sold out New York to Donald Trump.

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Science Will Not Save Us

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RFK Jr. and the perils of anti-anti-science

February 12

The Volunteers of Death

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The novel that cost Ethiopian writer Baalu Girma his life

February 11

Grist of Empire

Anna Krauthamer

How the West uses sexual violence to advance its interests

February 6

Unhuman Resources

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The many grievances of Jack Posobiec

February 5

The Barbarians Are Coming Today

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A conversation with Bruce Robbins

February 4

Organized Abandonment

Sarah Jaffe

What would a truly democratic recovery look like?

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February 21

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That beach is dead girls.

February 7

Jack in the Country

Daniel Lefferts

“I fell very, very far.”

January 24

Nostalgia Act

Lena Valencia

I’m nothing till you say that you want me.

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