Yesterday in Brazil, incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated Flávio Bolsonaro—the son of former president Jair Bolsonaro ...

The other essays you will read this week that delve into the philosophy and the history of liberalism are also excellent. What I will offer you instead is something simpler, and perhaps harder: a ...

Bret Devereaux, historian and author of the blog A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, explains why we're all still obsessed ...

Acts of violence are a sacrament in the fascist civic religion. The new fascist man must be posted into being.

Polling for the Ohio governor’s election has shown Democrat Amy Acton consistently a few points ahead of her GOP opponent ...

The Pax Sinica to which Xi Jinping aspires will be no imperialism-free paradise, but a world made safe for autocracy and domestic terror.

You don’t have to like Iñárritu’s new film to appreciate its refusal to confuse the punishment of villains with the repair of the world.

There have been many near-misses at dislodging Rep. French Hill ever since the state hard-shifted from blue to red in 2010.

The gist of it is as follows: In 2017, the Netherlands Defense Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD) flipped a Russian ...

Ilhan Omar's residence is continuous with President Donald Trump's birther politics and immigration obsessions, but it also touches on elemental constitutional issues—similar to the issues that once ...

Elias Isquith is a writer and editor based in New York City. He writes Necessary Fictions, a newsletter about film and US politics, and is on Bluesky at @eliasisquith.blog.

Beth Macy, the Democratic nominee to flip Virginia’s Sixth Congressional District, might have national name recognition, but ...