“In the pandemic, the invisible hand of the market is giving way to the visible hand of state. The big question is not whether the state will be back, but what form its presence will take” (Beata…
“President-elect Joe Biden intuited that legions of Americans wanted a return to normal — a restoration, a reversion. The earnest hope in his promise “to restore the soul of America” was that the…
“The contrast with Trumpism will quickly become apparent in Mr Biden’s approach to leadership, allies and engagement with international institutions. Writing in Foreign Affairs earlier this year, Mr…
The author explores after the election of Joseph Biden to the U.S. Presidency how “Serious questions about America’s role in the world will not go away just because Donald Trump was defeated” (Tom…
“Twenty-first century capitalism features financialization and monopoly power. A structural perspective of contemporary political economy illuminates how these aspects shape the COVID-19…
“Online platforms aren’t transparent about their decisions—which leaves them open to claims of censorship and masks the true costs of misinformation” (Joan Donovan, 2020).
“From an international perspective,...Trump is just one more example of the many populists on the right who have risen to power around the world...these people win elections but subvert democratic…
“Looking at the bigger picture, Democrats were done in by extreme voices that Mr. Trump was able to link to their party. Defunding the police will never be popular outside a few lefty precincts. The…
“The process of registering your democratic preference, the citizen’s core duty in a democracy. Can we take a moment to acknowledge how terribly inefficient, inaccessible, unfair and just plain…
If Facebook and Twitter functions “replaced algorithmically tailored and targeted newsfeeds with ones that simply displayed the most recent posts first, the sites would become less enraging — but…
