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Let's Contemplate the Alternatives to Liberalism This Holiday Season

A Libertarian Economist's Denialist Foray Into Feminism

MAGA's Conummist Propaganda: A Photo Essay

Is the Liberal Bias of Mainstream Media a Myth?: An Interview With Greg Sargent

Surprise: Both Parties Are Joining Hands to Prevent Another Jan. 6-Style Coup

Another Day, Another Book Against the Woke "New Puritans"

Trump Has Normalized Deviancy in the GOP

Trump’s Disrespect for the Constitution Underscores the Need for an Apolitical Military

Will Malaysia Succumb to the Rising Tide of Islamic Populism?

Abolishing ICE Is Still a Good Idea

A Typology of the New Right

This Thanksgiving, We Are Grateful for the Enduring Vigor of Liberalism

Hubris on the High Court Is Leading to a Legitimacy Problem

The Populist Right Isn't Interested in Elite Accountability

Hungary’s Orbán Has Become the Global Ringleader of Right-Wing Autocrats

Assessing the Midterm Election Results and the Future of Liberalism

Don’t Deny It: Democracy Was on the Ballot, and It Won

The New Right Has No Solution to the "Elite Problem"

India's Ruling Party Tightens the Vise on JournaIists it Doesn't Like

Bolsonaro Isn’t Playing His Trump Card For Now

Sohrab Ahmari's Vacuous Critique of the Anti-Hijab Protests

Life in Post-Apartheid South Africa Is Confusing For Both Sides

Abortion Bans Go Hand in Hand With a Draconian State

The UK’s New Prime Minister Faces a Stiffer Populist ‘Red Wall‘: An Interview With British Historian Stephen Davies

MAGA Is No Tea Party

Fears About Loss of Status Are Driving the Rise of Christian Nationalism: An Interview With Paul Matzko

An Extremist GOP Opponent Means Michigan's Governor Whitmer May Win Despite Rank Hypocrisy

America’s Criminal ‘Injustice’ System Is an Insult to Its Liberal Commitments

Putin's Reign, Like Russia’s Final Czar's, May End Following his Ukrainian Misadventure

There Is a Name for Meloni’s Blend of Socialism and Nationalism

This Time, The Women-Led Uprising May Succeed In Toppling Iran's Brutal Mullahs

Jordan Peterson: Putin's Useless Idiot

Should Merrick Garland Go Big or Go Safe in a Prosecution of Donald Trump?

Who is Giorgia Meloni, Italy's Next Prime Minister?

Watch Out for Bolsonaro, Brazil’s Trump, Pulling the Big Lie After His Likely Defeat

Actually, There Are Free Lunches Galore in Healthy Liberal Societies

The UnPopulist’s First Anniversary: A Ray of Hope, Even as Populist Authoritarianism Spreads

A Loophole That a President Could Drive an Army Through

How the American Right Gave Us Both Reagan and Trump—and What Comes Next: An Interview With Matthew Continetti

Ukrainians Won’t Live Under Russian Fascism After Escaping Soviet Communism

The Conservative Right's Undying Fascination With an Obscene Anti-Immigration Novel

The Dutch Farmers’ Revolt Isn’t Brexit or MAGA

Why Some Trump Critics Survived This Primary Season and Some Didn’t

On the Fifth Anniversary of Indian Journalist Gauri Lankesh's Assassination, Fight for Justice for Bilkis

Why Won't the Indian Prime Minister Condemn the Release of a Muslim Woman's Gang Rapists?

Clarence Thomas Would Jettison Part of America’s Heritage of Liberty

Salman Rushdie on Defending Free Speech in the Face of Fanaticism

Yes, It Was an Attempted Coup

J.D. Vance, the Apostle of Appalachia, Embraces His Inner Troll

India's Booker Prize Winner Explores the Human Cost of the Enmity Between Her Country and Pakistan

India Has the Antidote to Rising Hindu Nationalism: The Father of the Indian Constitution, B.R. Ambedkar

At 75, Is India Still a Liberal Country?

Coup-Proof the Electoral Process Before 2024

Can Liberalism Make Peace Between the Future and Its Enemies?: An Interview With Virginia Postrel

If Eliminating Fear of the State Is a Liberal Country's First Job, America Is in Trouble

Why Can't the West Persuade "The Rest" to Condemn Putin's Aggression?

The Jan. 6 Committee’s Findings Have Met the Appropriately High Bar for Prosecuting Trump

Did We Really Want Trump to Deploy the National Guard on Jan. 6?

The End of Boris Johnson Is Not the End of U.K. Populism

The Triple Justification for Liberalism

Josh Hawley's UnAmerican Nationalism

How to Lose an Election Gracefully

Trump Has Shown How Conspiracy Theories Can Supercharge Populism

The Religious Freedom of Muslims and Christian Evangelicals Is Bound Together

Why Donald Trump Poses a Unique Threat to America

Frederick Douglass on ‘Regarding Slavery as the Basis of Wealth’

How the Libertarian Party Became the Reactionary Arm of Trump and Trumpism

Slavery Enriched White Slave Owners But Robbed America, Not Just African Americans

Trump’s Lawlessness Has Brought Us to the Brink of a Constitutional Precipice

The Evils of Jim Crow Don’t Belong in a Memory Hole

How Can the Pro-Life and Pro-Choice Sides Coexist in a Post-Roe World?

On This Juneteenth, Let's Recognize that Formal Emancipation Did Not End Black Suffering

Republicans' Campaign of Half-Truths to Discredit the House Jan. 6 Committee

Why Did Staunchly Democratic Counties Go for Trump?

Ukrainians Are Fighting For Their Right To Exist

Falling For Nativist Myths Will Be Injurious to America

Diversity Is Not What Ails Democracies: A Review of Yascha Mounk’s New Book

A Post-Roe Court Will Need More Liberals to Defend Liberty

The Right-Wing Outrage Machine Is Doing Campus Conservatives No Favors

Immigrants Grow Their Hearts, Not Divide Their Loyalties

Preserving Americans’ Freedom Can’t Mean Closing Down Our Borders

Yes, Tucker Carlson’s Popularization of the Great Replacement Theory Deserves Blame for the Buffalo Massacre

Nativists Are Ganging Up on Their Fellow Citizens When They Ban Immigration

France's Macron Is No Liberty-Loving Liberal Hero

There Is No Good Alternative to Liberal Democracy

Zelenskyy: The Quintessential Classical Liberal Hero

The Past, Present and Future of Populist Politics in America

Trailer - Reactionary Minds Podcast

Hinduism Is Now an Active Threat to India's Minorities

Putin’s Achilles Heel Is Buried Beneath the Boot of His Totalitarianism

Isaiah Berlin on the Inherent Atavism in Populism

Don’t Count Out Marine Le Pen in the French Presidential Election

The Hungarian Opposition Should Not Legitimize Orban's Rigged Victory

Trump Is Unlikely to See the Inside of a Prison Cell

Putin Has Destroyed the Liberal International Order but Liberal Democracies Are Destroying Themselves

India's Hindu Nationalists Go After the Hijab of Muslim School Girls

Ukraine Is Biden's Chance to Redeem His Sordid Refugee Resettlement Record

The Suffragist Movement Made America a Better Country

France's Trump Is Imploding But Only After Remaking the French Right

When Politicians Start Scapegoating Minorities, They Are on the Road to Authoritarianism

Putin Is Fueling the Ukraine Invasion with Soviet-Style Lies

Viktor Orban and Tucker Carlson's Imaginary Enemies

Is Religion the Cure for the Populist Authoritarian Temptation?

Along with Ukraine, Putin is Destroying Putinism

The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis Is an Opportunity for America to Strengthen its Liberal Commitments

The Fitting Outcome in the George Floyd Trial Shouldn't Detract From Fundamental Criminal Justice Reforms

A Belligerent Neighbor Like Russia Makes Liberal Democracy Hard in Ukraine

Canada's Freedom Convoy Is Undermining the Cause of Freedom

Does Populism Deserve its Bad Rap?

Come to Think of It, the American Right Never Really Loved Freedom

The Good and Bad of Critical Race Theory

Booker T. Washington on the Absurdity of Race in America

Brexit Is Fueling the Nativist Movement in Britain: A Debate

Is Britain's Populist Movement Dying Post-Brexit?

“Our Composite Nationality” by Frederick Douglass

The Racist Underbelly of MAGA Restrictionists

Can a Few Good Republicans Thwart Trump's Election Steal Again in 2024?

One Lowly Republican's Struggle to Debunk Trump's Big Lie

Trump’s Big Lie Is Trashing a Major National Achievement