“What is the right historical analogy to America’s current crisis? The truth is, there is no precedent. We have never seen such a longstanding democracy in such a rich country break down before —…
“Tensions persist among today’s great powers” and China and the United States “are on a collision course fueled by the dynamics of a power transition and their competition for status and prestige,…
“In the months after the virus first surfaced, governments stepped in to address the concomitant economic and health crises...But it is not enough for governments to simply intervene...they should…
President Macron’s “notion of “separatism” seems to assume that a significant minority of Muslims are tempted to set themselves apart somehow from the rest of French society...but this diagnostic is…
“When minorities are pushed...they may retreat into a siege mentality that breeds radicalization. But India’s Muslims...have embraced and emphasized the blessings of liberal democracy by placing…
“Platforms are increasingly using transparency... to combat disinformation campaigns. In the case of state-controlled media outlets on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter this has taken the form of…
“Since entering politics, Trump has trafficked in conspiracy theories for political gain. Where other conspiracy theorists might demonize racial or religious groups, however, he focuses on the…
“The values of liberty, democracy, freedom of expression and the rule of law for which the United States has stood, albeit with conspicuous failings, over the postwar decades have been abandoned….the…
“The young are dissatisfied with democracy. More worryingly, they are more dissatisfied with democracy than previous generations were at the same age. This makes them inclined towards extreme…
“Our compromised liberalism has left a generation of writers weighing their every word for fear that a wrong one could wreck their professional lives. The result is safer, but also more timid; more…
