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North America

How Moderate Republicans Went Extinct

Reconsidering Nelson Rockefeller and his legacy

September 18, 2024 • by Henry Tonks

At the Aspen Ideas Climate Summit in spring 2022—one of those gatherings of the well-informed and the well-to-do so beloved by American politicians—Nancy Pelosi, then Speaker of the House of Representatives, urged Republicans to “take back” their party from Donald Trump. “This country,” the veteran Democratic leader opined, “needs a ...

Democracy

Venezuelans Battle a Crumbling Democracy and a Stolen Election

How a revolution ignites

September 17, 2024 • by Alexandra Panzarelli

Highly charged protests continue to erupt in Venezuela following President Nicolás Maduro's blatantly forged electoral results at the end of July. The US and 10 Latin American states have rejected Maduro's unsubstantiated vote certification. But rather than face mounting pressure from the opposition to release evidence of the votes behind ...

Venezuelans Battle a Crumbling Democracy and a Stolen Election

North America

When Politicians Make Nice

A conversation with sociologist Julia Sonnevend about her new book, Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics

September 11, 2024 • by Claire Potter and Julia Sonnevend

When United States president Joe Biden stumbled on the debate stage on June 27, 2024, it wasn’t that he just seemed old, it was that a man who had charmed voters for half a century with his bright smile, kindness, and folksy quips seemed to have vanished. ...

East Asia & Pacific

“Village NBA” in China

When sports fandom meets rural governance

September 9, 2024 • by Gil Hizi

The driver of bus number 25 knew where I was heading the moment I stepped inside. Although he met few foreigners during his three years on this line (as he later told me), he assumed that I could only be heading to the “NBA village” of Taipan in the Guizhou ...

North America

Project 2025 and Its Imaginative Hellscape

Apparently, Marxist elites have even compromised the fighting fiber of our troops

August 28, 2024 • by Carl Landauer

Over the summer, I committed myself to reading the entirety of Project 2025, a policy document compiled by the Heritage Foundation, with contributions from many veterans of the Trump administration, which I printed out in four thick three-ring binders. What follows is a review of the vision of governance the ...

Project 2025 and Its Imaginative Hellscape

South Asia

The Future for India’s Opposition

Democracy remains at risk

June 24, 2024 • by Udeepta Chakravarty

This result is certainly a setback for Modi, the BJP, and the Hindu nationalist Right more broadly; it is certainly a respite for opposition forces. But it would be foolhardy to celebrate this moment as a victory....

Education

The Post-Brown Realignment and the Structure of Partitioned Publics

Public schools are crucial infrastructures in the reproduction of social inequality

June 12, 2024 • by Ujju Aggarwal

Public schools are crucial infrastructures of the reproduction of social inequality and the US carceral state. ...

The Post-<em>Brown</em> Realignment and the Structure of Partitioned Publics

Philosophy

Ideology After Marxism

From Karl Mannheim and Daniel Bell to Vaclav Havel

June 10, 2024 • by Alex Rossen

Among the many reckonings of [the twentieth century] was a reckoning, not merely with Marxism—but with the process of ideology-making itself....

Democracy

Mexico’s First Woman President Is Not a Fluke

Constitutional reform has led the country to hold some of the highest proportions of women in politics worldwide

June 6, 2024 • by Adriana Piatti-Crocker

Mexico has just elected its first woman president, the result of well-designed women-friendly policy. ...

Mexico’s First Woman President Is Not a Fluke

Democracy

The Right Hand of the State and the American Left

Progressives are increasingly wary of the “national securitization of the state”

May 31, 2024 • by Basak Kus

The rift within the Democratic base stems not so much from disagreement over the left hand—which both sides support, albeit in varying ways and degrees—but over the excesses of the right hand....

The Right Hand of the State and the American Left

South Asia

The World’s “Largest Democracy”?

Modi leads India down a dark path

May 30, 2024 • by Udeepta Chakravarty

Corrosive nationalism and monarchic consciousness have become so normalized that other political forces, including the opposition, are now mimicking Modi’s practices....

Podcast

MAGA Is the Newest, and Oldest, American Myth

Episode 51: A conversation with American Studies scholar Richard Slotkin about his new book, A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America

April 12, 2024 • by Claire Potter

Slotkin examines the history of the two Americas that exist side-by-side today, with their clashing and common myths, two American cultures that will meet at the ballot box in November 2024 to decide the fate of American democracy....