‘Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to incompetence, they say. Sure enough, there is plenty of the latter at work in national politics. The Democratic side of the presidential race has become a muddle, with too many candidates and no clear message.’
Impeachment: the verdict of history
The 22nd century looks back on the last days of liberal democracy
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In 2020, the best is marked for oblivion
A progressive-minded man born into the 14th century would have fought the Renaissance tooth and nail
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We’ve been pansexual for a while now
Like ‘television’, ‘pansexuality’ is a bastard form, founded half on a Greek word and half on a Latin one
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Democracy in danger
Nothing quite matches the scale of today’s disillusionment with democracy
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Will you guys take Harry and Meghan to your hearts?
California, here one comes…
By Rod Liddle
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Moderation, one day at a time
A part of my brain is perpetually searching for an excuse to drink — and what better excuse than half the country descending into a collective existential crisis?
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What the new nationalism means
The revolution is complete. The old revolutionaries are now the establishment
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Global warning: 2020 Dems are floundering on foreign policy
We must end forever wars, except when Trump tries to end them
By Matt Purple
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Andy Khawaja: ‘the whistleblower’
Andy Khawaja is charged with campaign finance violations. He says there’s a bigger story
By Paul Wood
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Bernie Sanders is The Corbynizer
A true socialist, Sanders has been poised on his Marx all his life for this moment
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My favorite gun is the gun that will save my life
‘Any man with any strength should go to a .45’
By John Meroney
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The Democrats are fracking insane
Proposing a ban is election suicide. The Democrats are doing it anyway.
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Democrat blues: the leadership fears and loathes the grassroots
Party bosses appear to espouse the betrayal of their base as a core value
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Trump steals the Dems’ spotlight at New Hampshire rally
‘We have the highest poll numbers we’ve ever had — thank you, Nancy, very much’
By Amber Duke
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2020 is a mirror image of 2016
Bernie is the Chinese finger trap of the election — the harder you pull, the stronger he gets
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Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address was nothing less than magnificent
His major speeches will go down as among the most eloquent and important in the nation’s history
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Books + Arts
The human clay
As he collects more than three decades of thinking and writing about sculpture into a new book, Eric Gibson introduces a few of his favorite things
By Eric Gibson
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Around the world in 49 days
The Idealist: Wendell Willkie’s Wartime Quest to Build One World by Samuel Zipp reviewed
By David Bahr
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How close is humanity to destroying itself?
The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity by Toby Ord reviewed
By Tom Chivers
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‘All rock ’n’ roll starts and ends with Lou Reed’
Our rock critic has made an album with R.E.M.’s Peter Buck. Here he explains how…
By Luke Haines
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Uniform beats
Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany by Uwe Schütte reviewed
By Jay Elwes
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An old master who still feels new
El Greco is at the Art Institute of Chicago. Can we trust the modernists on the gifts of ‘The Greek’?
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Cats: The Snuff Movie
Too many Netflix true-crime documentaries are tiresome and overlong. This one was a lot worse than that
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Birth of a nation
India’s Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy by Madhav Khosla reviewed
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I won’t read American Dirt — but not because the author has the wrong skin color
You can’t own stories. You can’t patent topics and classes of character
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Life
I fell out with my friend Chrysanthia over abortion
As a transwoman, the chance of me ever being able to have an abortion in my lifetime is slim
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Do cry for her, Argentina
‘Poor people don’t want someone to protect them who is old and dowdy,’ Eva once explained
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Why do monsters make such good writers?
Hitler put down ‘writer’ as his occupation while starving and unemployed in Vienna
By Taki
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The remarkable Martha Treichler
Black Mountain left a mark on her and her husband Bill
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Addicted to Addis
We downed jugs of turbo, a popular Ethiopian concoction of white wine, beer and Sprite
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Ganging up on Israel
To paraphrase Mark Antony in Julius Caesar, the evil that men tweet lives after them, while the good is oft interred with their bones
By Toby Young
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The lessons I learned cycling across Rwanda
‘There is no ethnicity here now’, said my escort Eric, moments before I shot headfirst over the handlebars
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Food and Drink
Say cheese
Forget Kraft Singles: North American cheesemaking is thriving
By Jane Stannus
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Vintage Brooklyn: the wines of Red Hook
We tasted six or seven maturing wines straight from the barrel. It was a little like watching some young ballerinas
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