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Canada: More American than the United States?

I’ve always found something charming about Canada Day, the July 1 national celebration, landing just three days before America’s Independence Day....

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Three ways Trump’s attack on Iran could spin out of control

When Vice President JD Vance appeared on Meet the Press on Sunday morning, anchor Kristen Welker asked him a simple question: Is the United States now...

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Trump doesn’t have a foreign policy

This story was adapted from the On the Right newsletter. New editions drop every Wednesday. Sign up here. For years, there has been an increasingly...

18.06.2025 10

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Trump’s military parade is a warning

Donald Trump’s military parade in Washington this weekend — a show of force in the capital that just happens to take place on the president’s...

14.06.2025 5

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The Israel-Iran war hinges on three big things

Last night, Israel went to war with Iran — launching a bombing raid targeting Iran’s senior military leadership and top nuclear scientists. The...

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The LA protests reveal what actually unites the Trump right

When President Donald Trump and Elon Musk had their dramatic falling-out last week, it appeared the right was on the brink of civil war — with...

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The fascinating backstory behind a bizarre State Department Substack post

Last week, the State Department published a strikingly radical screed on its official Substack. Titled “The Need for Civilizational Allies in...

04.06.2025 10

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Why the left gets the far right wrong

As right-wing populism has surged globally in the past 10 years, the socialist left has advanced a distinctive explanation for its emergence and how...

28.05.2025 10

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Two terrible truths about the antisemitic murders in DC

On Wednesday evening, the American Jewish Committee held a reception at DC’s Capital Jewish Museum. The gathering, aimed at Jewish foreign policy...

23.05.2025 4

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The forgotten book that foretold Trump’s power grab

In May 2015, prominent right-wing intellectual Charles Murray published a book calling on the superrich to fund an American rebellion against their...

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The anti-woke right won in 2024. Now they’re turning on each other.

It’s been a rough week in the world of the online intellectual right, which is currently in the midst of two separate yet related blowups — both...

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Americans have tuned out Gaza at the worst possible moment

Israel’s war in Gaza, which has long been a moral atrocity, is on the brink of becoming unimaginably worse. Earlier this month, Israel’s security...

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The elite intellectual outcasts shaping Trump’s authoritarianism

Conservatives frequently accuse liberals of being out of touch with Americans. It’s an accusation that stings partly because there’s truth behind...

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Trump is losing his war on democracy

In the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term, his administration has proven exceptionally good at breaking things. The Department of...

30.04.2025 30

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How Trump lost Canada

LONDON, Canada — Canada’s Liberals just pulled off one of the greatest upsets in modern democratic history: going from a predicted wipeout in...

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Canary Mission, the pro-Israel group taking credit for student deportation, explained

About nine years ago, a new organization called Canary Mission released a YouTube video describing their mission: maintaining a blacklist of...

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Trump’s new authoritarian role model

President Donald Trump’s press conference with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele was, at heart, an authoritarian political performance. This was...

15.04.2025 3

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Some elite Trump supporters are having regrets. We asked them why.

President Donald Trump’s tariffs haven’t only demolished trillions in wealth and raised the chance of a global recession. They’ve also led some...

09.04.2025 10

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What this disastrous week taught us about the Trump presidency

Donald Trump’s tariffs were at once predictable and shocking. Predictable, in the sense that Trump had been crystal-clear about wanting...

04.04.2025 4

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The real reason Trump is destroying the economy

The Trump administration’s tariffs are, by every reasonable account, an economic catastrophe in the making. So why are they happening? One...

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Where the right’s defense of free speech ends

In God and Man at Yale, the 1951 book that made William F. Buckley famous, American conservatism’s founding father argues that academic freedom is...

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A clarifying moment for democracy

At around 5:15 pm on Tuesday, a man in a black hoodie stopped Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk on the street in Somerville,...

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The deep divide lurking in Trump officials’ leaked group chat

The biggest story in America is, and should remain, the Trump administration’s accidental inclusion of Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg on...

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There’s a pattern in Trump’s power grabs

You’ve surely heard “First They Came,” German pastor Martin Niemöller’s famous poem about the road to Nazi Germany. It’s one of those texts...

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The Trump right’s pro-Israel antisemitism

Over and over again, the Trump administration has claimed to be fighting antisemitism while wielding power against its domestic enemies. Yet, at the...

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Canada is so furious at the US right now

The US and Canada are meant to be the best of friends, but they’re in the midst of a pretty ugly fight.  It began with President Donald Trump’s...

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The right’s new embrace of an old idea about race

Earlier this week, we learned that a senior State Department official called Secretary of State Marco Rubio stupid. The insult was delivered using...

12.03.2025 8

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The obscure manifesto that explains the Trump-Musk power grab

Russell Vought is the brain behind Donald Trump’s executive order blitz. The now-director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) spent months...

19.02.2025 30

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How to stop Trump’s power grab

At this point, there is little doubt that President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are engaged in a fundamentally unlawful effort to rewrite the American...

13.02.2025 40

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An eerie prophecy of Trump’s second term — from 1998

Marko Elez, a staffer at Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Oversight, operated an anonymous X account that spewed out-and-out race...

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Why do US politics affect the rest of the world?

Vox reader Jo Ní Coinnigh asks: Why do American politics (especially the presidential election) affect not just the US, but the entire world? On one...

07.02.2025 6

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Their democracy died. They have lessons for America about Trump’s power grab.

A leader who voters rejected several years ago returns to power, largely thanks to discontent with the incumbent party’s economic performance....

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Trump is already acting like a king

Late on Monday night, the Trump administration sent out a stunning memo suspending all federal grants. Chaos followed, with everything from...

29.01.2025 6

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Elon Musk doesn’t deserve the benefit of the doubt

Since Donald Trump’s rise to power, some liberals have developed a bad habit of seeing secret Nazi imagery everywhere on the right. Be it Laura...

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How Trump will hide his anti-democratic politics in plain sight

When I was researching my book on anti-democratic politics, I found a striking pattern in modern incarnations of it — that these movements, almost...

22.01.2025 10

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The Trump executive orders that threaten democracy

Ever since Donald Trump declared he’d act like a dictator on Day 1 during his presidential campaign, there have been real concerns that he’d be...

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Trump’s real inaugural address started when the teleprompter stopped

When it comes to speeches, there are two Donald Trumps. The first is Teleprompter Trump, who reads a prepared speech and tends to be staid, sleepy,...

21.01.2025 40

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What’s in the Gaza ceasefire deal? And can it last?

A ceasefire deal has been reached in Gaza. Long-running negotiations among Israelis, Palestinians, Americans, Qataris, and Egyptians yielded an...

16.01.2025 10

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The deeply American roots of Trump’s imperial ambitions

Back in 2016, when much of the political press was casting Donald Trump as a dovish counterpart to Hillary Clinton, I wrote a story arguing that...

15.01.2025 8

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9 predictions for Trump’s second term

The biggest question in politics right now is what the second Trump administration will actually look like. The most honest answer is that nobody...

08.01.2025 10

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Why conservatives condemn Luigi Mangione and celebrate Daniel Penny

The American right has spent the past week performing an interesting tap dance: condemning the left for cheering on one alleged killer while...

18.12.2024 40

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A far-right publication just got tricked into publishing Communist Manifesto excerpts

In an extremely normal turn of events, a far-right magazine recently published an essay consisting entirely of edited passages from The Communist...

11.12.2024 4

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I listened to hours of Trump’s FBI pick on Steve Bannon’s podcast. Oh boy.

04.12.2024 5

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Trump’s win is part of a mysterious — and ominous — worldwide trend

27.11.2024 5

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Trump’s coalition is a mess of contradictions — and they’re about to be exposed

20.11.2024 5

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The Trump Cabinet picks who seriously threaten democracy — and the ones who don’t

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Did Trump win in 2024 because of racism? It’s complicated.

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Why the attempt to deplatform Trump failed so utterly

13.11.2024 3

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The global trend that pushed Donald Trump to victory

06.11.2024 4

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Donald Trump has won — and American democracy is now in grave danger

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