Populism
The politics of permanent outrage
This week, guest host Eric Boehm is joined by Lauren Hall, a political science professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the author of The Radical Moderate's Guide to Life, a Substack newsletter that…
When Washington crossed the Delaware on Christmas 1776, it wasn’t in the name of Christian nationalism
I grew up a few miles from where George Washington and his Continental Army crossed the Delaware River to launch a surprise attack on Hessian mercenary soldiers stationed in Trenton, N.J. Down on his luck, Washington launched…
The world moves to the right
From the BBC, Chile elects far-right José Antonio Kast as next president. Every sentence of the BBC report is better than the last, Chile has elected the far-right wing José Antonio Kast to be its next president, after an…
The bipartisan war on prices is coming for your credit card
In a scene that perfectly captures the strangeness of American politics today, President Donald Trump, a billionaire and self-styled champion of American business (at least the ones he likes) was all smiles during an Oval…
Populists Left and Right Say America Is Failing. The Facts Don’t.
Spend five minutes listening to the American left's most theatrical tribunes—Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.), or Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.)—and you'll probably hear tales of…
Democrats offer a false choice between socialism and technocracy
The unity that once held the Democratic Party together has given way to ideological meandering, oscillating between "woke" moralistic left-wing populism and technocratic managerialism. These two impulses now define…
You must remember this
Andrew E. Busch is associate director and professor at the Institute of American Civics in the Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is also a frequent contributor to…
Vance says he’ll discuss 2028 presidential run with Trump after 2026 midterms
Sat Nov 15, 2025 - 1:58 pm EST (LifeSiteNews) – Vice President JD Vance gave his strongest hint yet about running for president in 2028 while tabling any firm answer until after the 2026 midterm elections. Vance sat down with…
How Lina Khan is busy striving to maximize Zohran Mamdani’s power
Lina Khan has quickly thrown water on any hopes that she might be a benign force on New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition team. The former Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair suggested in a recent…
The Democratic thrill for Zohran Mamdani is a tell
There are any number of personal qualities that make New York mayoral front-runner Zohran Kwame Mamdani's political prominence seem improbable: his youth, his inexperience, his socialism, his terrible rapping, his…
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