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Photograph Source: ENERGY.GOV – Public Domain In his 2016 book, Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America, Donald J. Trump argued for a “massive rebuilding of our infrastructure.” As he wrote, Too many bridges have become dangerous, our roads are decaying and full...

Debs speaking in Canton, Ohio, in 1918, being arrested for sedition shortly thereafter. “I now think the United States may well be evolving,” Damon Linker writes at Persuasion, “to become a competitive authoritarian system in which free elections are still held but...

Image by Jez Timms. I didn’t want to write this article. In fact, I had something relatively uplifting planned: an Independence Day piece about the rich implications for the present moment to be found in the Declaration of Independence....

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair There are always worse political figures waiting in the wings. In Israel, for instance, Benjamin Netanyahu is a relative moderate compared to some members of his cabinet, like Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who believes that...

Image by Ash Hayes. While global attention remains fixed—yet helpless—by the horrors of the genocide in Gaza, a quieter but equally bedeviled Israeli plan is being implemented in the occupied West Bank. Under the fog of war, and aided by a willful placid Western...

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Across the globe, we are living in a moment of profound crisis where the very essence of education as a democratic institution is under attack. In the United States, the assault on higher education is part of a broader war waged by...

Image by Paul Teysen. U.S. President Donald Trump apparently aims to reassert his power to cause a full-blown economic catastrophe, perhaps reminiscent of 1930s-scale Make America Great Depression Again. The self-harm to his own MAGA lower-middle-class social base –...