

The 'Mandate for Leadership' is printed and done with. The plans to purge Trump's enemies from government, replacing them with ideologies and toadies, is humming along as planned.
The 'Mandate for Leadership' is printed and done with. The plans to purge Trump's enemies from government, replacing them with ideologies and toadies, is humming along as planned.
Authoritarianism is about power; mockery is about removing power. A narrative that undermines the authoritarian's illusion of strength is more dangerous to their movement than any law or army.
As purpose-built disinformation engines become nearly free to create and run, the production of researched and factual content remains expensive. The result could well be an internet so clogged with 'debris' that it loses everything that once made it useful.
Americans think the economy is worse than it actually is. Telling them everything is fine is probably the worst possible response.
The Bush administration response to a terror attack prioritized ideology over security. Two decades later, Netanyahu's far-right coalition scrambles to repeat the errors.
20 years after political blogs organized a new generation of activists, American liberalism has again lost its fire.
Launching yet another website in the current media environment might be an act of insanity, and yet here we are.