The Name is Mamdani.
Zohran Mamdani is a relentlessly disciplined messenger on affordability. So it’s all the more interesting when he gives a speech about something else. A week...
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What Abraham Lincoln Understood About the Founders
Co-founder and Executive Director Jeff Shesol reviews a new book by Akhil Reed Amar that paints a sprawling portrait of 19th-century America in thrall to...
Before QAnon and the Deep State, There Was Iron Mountain
Co-founder and Executive Director Jeff Shesol reviews a new book by Phil Tinline that recounts the history of a 1967 hoax and its ongoing influence...
John Roberts Is on a Collision Course with Trump
Alexander Hamilton saw it coming. In the Federalist Papers, he described the judiciary as a feeble branch of government, easily “overpowered, awed or influenced” by...
The Story Biden Ought to Be Telling in This Debate
The mythology of the presidential debate — as a kind of civic single combat, mano a mano, with the nation’s future at stake — has...
Total Eclipse Of The Mind
WWW alumn Laurence Pevsner on chasing solar eclipses, the fallibility of memory, and the value of looking at things only our eyes can see.
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How to Nail Your High School Graduation Speech Even If You’re Not that Popular
In his new column, "How to Write Every Speech You'll Ever Need To Give In Your Life," Chandler Dean gives partly satirical, partly genuine advice.Congratulations!...
Is There Fascist DNA in the U.S. Body Politic?
Jeff Shesol reviews Rachel Maddow’s “Prequel” and Heather Cox Richardson’s “Democracy Awakening,” two new books about plots against America hatched by homegrown autocrats.
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Outwit. Outplay. Outlast. Outspeak.
Note: This piece contains spoilers about Survivor Season 42.
Maryanne Oketch started Season 42 of Survivor at the bottom of her tribe (this piece uses the...
The Tragedy of John Roberts
The chief justice is portrayed by some as a tragic figure, powerless to save his court from itself. But the tragedy of John...