The path to autocracy; A second Trump term will leave America’s political system and culture looking even more like Orbán’s Hungary politics Article 2317 words, published Jun 15 2020 31 votes
Europe's young not so woke? Generational divisions in European countries seem less pronounced and young people seem to be less consistently aligned with the left than expected politics Article 3635 words, published Sep 30 2019 8 votes
Germany has woken up to a problem of far-right extremism in its elite special forces. But the threat of neo-Nazi infiltration of state institutions is much broader politics Article 3311 words 12 votes
"Together, you can redeem the soul of our nation" - John Lewis, the civil rights leader who died on July 17, wrote this essay shortly before his death, to be published upon the day of his funeral Article 603 words 8 votes
Trump is putting on a show in Portland; The president is deploying the kind of performative authoritarianism that Vladimir Putin pioneered politics Article 528 words 13 votes
Interview with Thomas Chatterton Williams on race, identity, and "cancel culture" politics.identity Article 6675 words 5 votes
The United States needs a third Reconstruction; whatever its shape, the era ahead must rekindle the aspiration of a nation molded in the ideal of perfect equality that we have always seeked politics Article 2298 words 21 votes
Throw the bums out: The USA is in the midst of a world-historic failure of governance. Why isn’t anyone in charge acting like they are responsible for it? politics Article 2005 words, published Jul 14 2020 23 votes
The time Bernie Sanders almost ran against Barack Obama, explained politics Article 2173 words, published Feb 19 2020 5 votes
The obscure US Supreme Court case that could be used by the Republican Party to gut the First Amendment politics Article 501 words, published Jun 17 2020 8 votes
How Trump corrupts everyone around him; For most of Trump’s aides, the only good move is not to play politics Article 571 words 6 votes
Why Republican senators do not challenge Trump politics Article 548 words, published May 25 2020 8 votes
Trump's "law and order" rhetoric won't help him like Nixon in 1968 politics Article 575 words 10 votes
The US is tearing itself apart because its political system has failed politics Article 1120 words 14 votes
Riots are the American way: The US was founded on revolutionary blood; the Civil War took 400,000 lives and the civil rights movement was a reaction to white violence politics Article 353 words 18 votes
The injustice of this moment is not an 'aberration' politics Article 3803 words, published Jan 17 2020 8 votes
How Western media would cover Minneapolis if it happened in another country politics Article 1077 words 15 votes
The corruption of the Republican Party: The modern GOP is best understood as an insurgency that carried the seeds of its own corruption from the start politics Article 2260 words, published Dec 14 2018 10 votes
How the pandemic has silenced the USA's biggest gubernatorial election politics Article 1960 words 7 votes
EU ambassador says Australia played 'bad cop' to Europe's 'good cop' to get coronavirus motion up politics Article 640 words 5 votes
The system failed the test of Trump: The story of the recent years is of institutions that were unable to constrain the presidency politics Article 557 words 8 votes
Did the coronavirus kill ideology in Australia? How a government both sectarian and divisive learned (briefly) to become inclusive politics Article 602 words 5 votes
Lesotho's prime minster wants to stay in power to avoid being charged for his wife’s murder politics Article 689 words 4 votes
The prophecies of Q: American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase politics Article 6 votes
The paranoid style in American politics: It had been around a long time before the Radical Right discovered it (1964) politics Article 5880 words, published Nov 1 1964 5 votes
Rep. Justin Amash “looking closely” at third-party run in US presidential election politics Article 476 words 14 votes
As COVID-19 gets worse, Trump is talking about things that the average American couldn't care less about politics Article 513 words 10 votes
#DemocracyRIP: What the Russian government did to the 2016 elections in the US was just the beginning politics Article 7698 words 9 votes
Pandemic has shown Australians we have less in common with the US than we thought politics Article 843 words 8 votes
Scott Morrison is now very popular in Australia. He hasn’t earned that. politics Article 819 words 10 votes