Week of June 3

• Politics
  The Decline of Colombia’s Centaur State

  Julián Gómez Delgado

  Sociology and Historical Studies PhD student at The New School for Social Research
  We Don’t Need a Commission to Study January 6

  Claire Potter

  Professor Emeritus of History at The New School
  The Perfect Dictatorship

  Francisco Rodríguez

  Venezuelan economist; director and founder of Oil for Venezuela
• The Economy
  Corporate Handouts Kill Small Businesses. So Why Do Politicians Continue to Offer Them Up?

  Pat Garofalo

  Author and director of state and local policy at the American Economic Liberties Project
• The Media
  The Rise of the “Influencer-Intellectuals”

  Annabelle Schwartz-Horney

  Spring 2021 graduate of The New School with a major in politics.
• Books
  Murder, Marines, and the Mojave

  Bliss Bowen and Deanne Stillman
• Podcasts
  Cicadas!

  Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young
• Our Columnists
  Democrat-in-Chief

  Heather Cox Richardson

  Professor of History, Boston College
  No, It’s not Shocking that QAnon Believers Long for a Military coup. For Them, This Is the End Times

  John Stoehr 

  Visiting assistant professor of public policy and liberal studies at Wesleyan University, and editor and publisher of the Editorial Board