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Liberal Societies Need Grand Stories About Themselves
11+ hour, 27+ min ago (233+ words) Let's agree that liberalism is in a global crisis. By liberalism, I mean the ideas and institutions underlying the modern social operating systems of capitalism, democracy, and science. By global, I mean throughout the WEIRD world: western, educated, industrialized, rich,…...
Armenia Rejects Populism and Chooses Democracy Despite a Devastating Military Defeat
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (695+ words) Nikol Pashinyan, Armenia's prime minister since 2018, has lost a war, surrendered territory, and abandoned the central ambition of post-Soviet Armenian politics: keeping Nagorno-Karabakh, long contested by neighboring Azerbaijan, in Armenian hands. Earlier this month, voters rewarded him with another term....
Trump Phone'Made In Everywhere But America: A Video Roundup
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (375+ words) In this week's roundup of clips, we bring you three videos well worth your time. First, video correspondent Landry Ayres tells the story of the Trump Mobile T1the "made in America" phone that quietly stopped " claiming to be made in America....
The Unfortunate Necessity of Court Packing to Stop America's Authoritarian Drift
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (1324+ words) It is an innovative plan that we hope generates debate and discussion. Indeed, over the course of the next few months, we will invite critical responses from legal experts. Stay tuned for more. Meanwhile, we are very curious about what…...
How the Internet Became a Tool for Domination and Control Instead of Liberation
6+ day, 16+ hour ago (1136+ words) Fourteen years later, almost to the day, the man who founded and still runs Facebook sat in a place of honor at the inauguration of an American president openly contemptuous of democratic norms. He was seated ahead of that president's…...
Pete Hegseth Echoes a Fascist Novel to Commemorate D-Day
1+ week, 5+ day ago (233+ words) Trump's "invasion" rhetoric has continued during his second term, even directly eventuating in policy. This was evident in his administration's egregious misapplication of a John Adams'era law to groundlessly declare an invasion as the basis for sending hundreds of Venezuelan…...
Does Immigration Lead to "Democratic Drain" and Illiberalism in Native Countries?
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1383+ words) theunpopulist. net Does Immigration Lead to "Democratic Drain" and Illiberalism in Native Countries? A fascinating book by a political scientist says yes'but, in fact, there is strong evidence for the opposite case, too In his new book Democratic Drain: Global…...
The Administration's Conduct During the World Cup: Inhospitable and Un American'A Video Roundup
2+ week, 2+ day ago (165+ words) In our latest episode of Zooming In, published yesterday, senior editor Berny Belvedere sat down with the Washington Post's Le'n Krauze to discuss the one event rivaling Lib Con2026 for everyone's attention this summer: a little thing called the World Cup....
The Trump Administration's Anti-Foreigner Animus Is a Betrayal of the World Cup'the Most Cosmopolitan Sport on Earth
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1497+ words) Listen to Zooming In at The Un Populist in your favorite podcast app: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | You Tube On Wednesday, the eve of the cup, I sat down with Le'n Krauze, contributing columnist at the Washington Post and host of…...
Hindu Supremacists " Laura Loomer Despite Her Racist Anti-Indian Tirades Because She Hates Muslims
2+ week, 6+ day ago (934+ words) A celebrity MAGA influencer and conspiracy theorist walked into a conclave in India under fire for mocking Indians as "third-world invaders" with low IQ and bad hygiene, but walked out as a new mascot for India's Islamophobes earlier this year....