16+ hour, 26+ min ago  (1821+ words) It's never just one minority. In the space of a few years, the UK has moved from a broadly inclusive status-quo to being the most aggressively anti-trans developed democracy in the world. Though pushed by a miniscule number of people,…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (368+ words) We must end the permanent retreat that began with Reagan. Taxes are not a punishment. They're the fuel in the engine of the republic, a positive affirmation of and direct investment in our values, and a system of incentives and…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (179+ words) Is this chatbot sentient? Is AI my friend? Is isolation hackable? Trent and Caitlin discuss recent AI news, Sam Altman's troubles legal and otherwise, labor organizing as a strategy against the worst fears of AI experts, and whether Richard Dawkins…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago  (173+ words) Strategic self-interest says that NATO should stay out of Trump's misbegotten war. Of course, the combat in the Persian Gulf began with American attacks against Iran, so a mutual defense treaty cannot reasonably extend to include them. But geography also…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago  (274+ words) Show out with new Liberal Currents merchandise. Do our tactics throw out democracy and rule of law while purportedly aiming at saving them? On Saturday, we published an essay by Robert Black arguing, essentially, that Virginia Democrats should ignore the…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago  (895+ words) Classical liberals must rejoin left liberals in fighting for emancipatory politics and against the illiberal right. In one form or another, liberalism used to stretch across almost the entire American political spectrum. Policy debates were about how to implement liberal…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago  (808+ words) What will replace U. S. global leadership after the Trump-accelerated American decline is not a rising China, but multipolar chaos. Meanwhile, China has been rising'economically, technologically, militarily'and looking to many countries like a more attractive option merely by being consistent compared to…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (207+ words) The promise of future blessedness can never authorize the murder of innocent human beings and the desacralization of the human form. The logic of the modern war strategist is eminently utilitarian. He sees the deaths of unfortunate thousands as the…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago  (1392+ words) We can and must prosecute the degenerate officials and corrupt oligarchs and brutal thugs who would destroy our Constitutional system. "Let bygones be bygones."" Do you remember that? I do. I remember Barack Obama's choice not to prosecute Bush-era torturers…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (301+ words) Democrats will have'and in Virginia, do have'the tools to win the redistricting free-for-all. These provisions were a part of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, written by Founding Father George Mason and adopted on June 12th, 1776, a few weeks before the national…...