Voting with a vengeance
An act that I have perversely enjoyed for most of my life lost much of its luster a score of years ago
Democracy
Tuesday
Monday
Why the lame-duck Congress is a threat to democracy
Lawmakers relish the fact that there is little to no accountability from voters
Thursday
Democrats made Kari Lake a star
Why did Biden’s party labor to put ‘election-deniers’ on the ballot?
Wednesday
Homage to Kyiv
It feels like the only city that matters, a place where people still believe in honor
Monday
The slumber of the Anglosphere
Can democracy in the West survive its attenuation in the US and UK?
Monday
Giorgia Meloni is no springtime for Italian fascism
Italy’s new populist leader is a symptom of European ills
Tuesday
Exhausted by America’s culture of fear
I’m not sure I should worry about our democracy so much as our sanity
Thursday
What Americans can learn from the monarchy
The ceremonial side of British government remains very important
Saturday
The EPA’s loss is a win for democracy
The Supreme Court hands more power back to the people
Tuesday
America the busybody neighbor
Our foreign policy establishment acts like a Karen on the global stage
Wednesday
Hong Kong is now a police state
Soon to be run by a former policeman
Tuesday
Elon Musk let me back on Twitter
Reminding me just how nuts most journalists are
Thursday
Diversifying democracy
The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure by Yascha Mounk reviewed
Tuesday
Democracy and economic freedom are in decline
Two new reports show how Covid restrictions and technocrats are threatening liberties worldwide
Thursday
Welcome to body-camera democracy
Body cams on poll workers would do much to cool mounting tensions and put a stop to dangerous political theater
Thursday
Who won the Cold War, anyway?
Conservatism may have won the Cold War, but conservatives lost the peace in the West
The foremost challenge facing Western democracies
In the absence of a Brahmin class, any civilization worthy of the name is impossible
Monday
Welcome to the age of entropy
Our direction is not toward liberalism, but away from order of any kind
Thursday
A DC evening with Svetlana Tikhanovskaya
The Belarusian opposition leader is Washington’s ‘It Girl’
Wednesday
The tragedy of the Texas COVID-crats
They filibustered to protest filibustering then flew a bioweapon into the nation’s capital
