Zuckerberg’s Gamble
Facebook is taking a major step to appease its mostly liberal post-election critics, who charged that disinformation that proliferated on its platform affected the election outcome (read: helped elect...
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Blue States Have Bigger Pension Debts Than Red States
The strong (if uneven) economic performance of coastal blue states like California and New York has led a number of leading liberal thinkers, including former Labor Secretary Robert Reich and political...
View ArticleA Leftist Who Gets It
Writing in Dissent, Columbia University professor N. Turkuler Isiksel has an important message for her fellow left-liberals about what to fear from a Trump presidency: Progressives err in assuming that...
View ArticleThe Danger of President Obama’s Farewell Address
The core arguments of Barack Obama’s final speech as president of the United States—that the liberal democratic system of government is imperiled, in America and abroad; that the rule of law will not...
View ArticleThe Biggest Threat to the Media is the Media Itself
Many Democrats and journalists are worried that Donald Trump is an authoritarian-in-waiting who will make his bid to consolidate power by cracking down on Democratic institutions, beginning with the...
View ArticleIs Trump an Ordinary Republican?
One of the most remarkable developments of the 2016 campaign was the ease with which Donald Trump’s profound differences with Republican elites—on immigration, trade, entitlements, infrastructure and...
View ArticleThis Is How the Country Breaks Apart
The Golden State is symbolically showcasing its commitment to tolerance and inclusion… by cutting off state funds for travel (including for college athletic competitions) to states that the legislature...
View ArticleAfter Gorsuch
President Trump’s selection of Neil Gorsuch to fill Antonin Scalia’s seat on the Supreme Court is likely to produce a procedural frenzy in the Senate as Democrats try to show their base that they are...
View Article“Negative Polls” and the Essence of Populism
When he lost a primary contest, it was not uncommon for Donald Trump to declare that the process had been rigged against him and the results were invalid; when he seemed unlikely to win the general...
View ArticleMaking Sense of Trump’s Bull Market
If you looked at the politics section of the papers every morning, you would think that Washington was descending into chaos, with a corrupt president out of his depth, a foreign power pulling strings...
View ArticleHow Does This End?
The New York Times reports that Democratic elites, caught off guard by the outpouring of fury from their base in the wake of Trump’s inauguration, are losing the ability to set their party’s agenda:...
View ArticleDeVos Missed the Mark on Politics and Academia
Newly-confirmed Education Secretary Betsy DeVos won plaudits from conservatives last week for blasting American higher education as an indoctrination mill where moderate and conservative students are...
View ArticlePolitics Is Ruining Millennials’ Love Lives
The popular dating application Coffee Meets Bagel recently surveyed its members on the impact politics are having on their romantic lives, and the results are … bleak for those of us who still imagine...
View ArticleInfrastructure Spending Will Be Hard for Democrats to #Resist
The unveiling of the Trump-backed GOP healthcare plan was chaotic, met with declarations from crucial Republican senators that it was dead on arrival and followed by the release of polls showing that...
View ArticleWhy Did Harvard Scrap the LSAT?
It’s a revolutionary change in American legal education: Harvard Law School has announced that it will no longer require the LSAT—a one-of-its-kind reading and logic exam offered only a handful of...
View ArticleSocial Media: Savior of Democracy, or Nemesis?
In 2011, at the height of the Arab Spring, it looked like new media technologies were going to give rise to democracies in the developing world. In 2017, it looks like their main influence will be to...
View ArticleWhy the Gorsuch Hearings Are Boring
The progressive commentator Chris Hayes tweeted the following jab at Judge Neil Gorsuch’s solemnly apolitical responses to hostile questioning from Democratic Senators: "Who me? I'm just a humble...
View ArticleThe Real Reason California Turned Blue
The State of California has long been thought of as the vanguard of American progressive politics, offering a preview of the Democratic Party’s (and in many cases the country’s) leftward drift. But in...
View ArticleNuke the Filibuster to Save the Supreme Court
Senate Democrats, scrambling to state their base’s desire for scorched-earth opposition to the Trump administration at every turn, seem less and less likely to let Neil Gorsuch ascend to the Supreme...
View ArticleThe Stakes of the Gorsuch Showdown
It seems to really be happening: Senate Democrats reportedly have the votes to filibuster Judge Neil Gorsuch, Donald Trump’s first Supreme Court nominee, prompting a near-certain invocation of the...
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