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The UnPopulist Family's Holiday Recommendations
The Republican Primaries Show MAGA’s Tightening Grip on the GOP
A Re-elected Trump Will Unleash Unspeakable Cruelty Toward Immigrants
The Dangerous Rise of the Conservative Revolutionaries: A Conversation with Tom Palmer
Liberalism and Catholicism: Friends Not Foes
Markers to Identify a Rightwing Authoritarian Denialist
Speaker Johnson’s Predicament Shows MAGA Can't Govern
Cussing Cops Poison Race Relations
Gaza, The Day After: A Roundup Of Options
How Not to Reform the "Deep State": The UnPopulist Editor's Roundtable
India’s Jingoism Lost at the Cricket World Cup
Buddhism and Liberalism Are Mutually Reinforcing
America’s Current Prosperity Was Initially Aided by Native American Generosity
Voters Are Rejecting Even Moderate Abortion Restrictions
Liberal Individualism Has Deep Roots in Protestantism
The Putin-Backed Ethnic Cleansing that the Western Press Isn't Covering
Preserving A Liberal Society Requires Better Public Discourse: A Conversation with Berny Belvedere
Election Workers Deserve Protection From Harassment by Partisan Mobs
The Illegitimacy of a Presidential Self-Pardon
The Israel and Ukraine Conflicts Demonstrate the Right’s Intellectual Bankruptcy
Liberal Ideals Can Strengthen, Not Weaken, Judaism
A Trade War Will Exacerbate the Chinese Threat
Moms for Liberty: Birchers in Heels
Can Trump Still Dodge Accountability For Trying to Overturn the Election?
A Constitutional Crisis No One Is Thinking About
Is There a Loss of Meaning in Liberal Societies?: A Conversation with Akiva Malamet, Part II
Poland Just Dealt a Serious Blow to Authoritarian Nationalism
Spain's Far Right Party Radicalizes Itself Out of Power
Muslim and Jewish Voices Push Back Against Their Own Side: A Roundup
Bibi Netanyahu's Divisive Policies Are Behind Israel's Catastrophic National Security Failure
Populist Nationalists Everywhere Want to Disappear the Nation
The Palestinian Cause Cannot Justify Hamas's Depravity
Congress Has the Constitutional Right and Obligation to Boot Out Crooks and Conmen
Critiquing the Critique of the Supreme Court: A Conversation with Ilya Somin
The Bull Moose Project: Taking the Gospel of Trumpism to America’s Youth
The Supreme Court Is Controversial Because It Is Choosing Controversial Cases
Modi's Bharat: Seeking Power, Becoming Pariah
The New Constitutional Doctrine That Would Depolarize the Supreme Court
Trumpism is the Outlaw Version of Reaganism
No, Canada Is Not About to Become A Populist Hotbed
Even Dobbs May Not Have Granted a License for Every Draconian State Abortion Restriction
Catholic Integralism's Project of Replacing Liberalism Is Doomed: A Conversation with Kevin Vallier
Modi's India Claims Another Casualty: Academic Freedom
Ron Paul Redux: The Texan Congressman Has an Unlikely Intellectual Heir
Drastic Liberal Schemes to Undermine the US Supreme Court Will Enable an Authoritarian Presidency
Racism Is Not a Sin on the American Right, Wokeism Is
The Danger of Not Prosecuting Trump's Jan. 6 Conduct: A Conversation with Walter Olson
Why DeSantis Has Been Stoking the Anti-Woke Hard Right
Do the Legal Arguments Against Trump's Jan. 6 Indictment Hold Water?
Will Canada Continue to Resist the Populist Tide?
The Far Right Is Getting Mainstreamed in Europe, Including in the European Union
A Landmark Study Debunks Populist Anti-Immigrant Narratives
Texas Campus Conservatives are Expanding Their Crusade to Silence Leftists and Critics
Most French Arabs See Themselves As French and So Should the French
Israel's Land Grabs in the West Bank are Helping Justify the Far-Right Government's Power Grabs
Individual Autonomy Is Not the Enemy of a Humane Liberalism: A Response to David Brooks
The Right Has a Deep Aversion to Equality: A Conversation with Political Theorist Matthew McManus
The Global Wave of Populist Nationalism Is Not Waning
The Good and Bad of Affirmative Action: The UnPopulist Editors' Roundtable
Putin Has Lost His Totalitarian Grip After Ukraine
Anti-Soros Conspiracy Theories Are Going Wild Among India’s Hindu Nationalists
The Triumph of Wilson's Vision of Congress Over Madison's Has Polarized America
Don't Make Ukraine a Casualty of America's Culture Wars
Frederick Douglass on "What The Black Man Wants"
Defending Academic Freedom Requires Standing Up For Open Inquiry: A Conversation with Jonathan Marks
Josh Hawley Is Good at Neither Preaching Nor Practicing “Masculine” Virtues
A Religious Magazine Whitewashes a Xenophobic Novel Advocating Genocide
Red States Are Embracing Draconian Tactics to Enforce Abortion Bans
Biden Is Enabling Human Rights Abuses in India
Celebrating Juneteenth Is No Affront to a Color Blind America
Donald Trump Did Not Have the Power to Declassify Some Documents He Took
Both Team Red and Blue Should Line Up Behind Expedited Vote Counting
What the Left Gets Wrong About Liberalism: The UnPopulist Editor's Roundtable
Key Liberal Norms Are Holding Despite America’s Polarization
Right-Wing Culture Warriors Want to Kill Academic Freedom to Save the People
The Paranoid Style in American Entertainment
India Is Ill Positioned to Harness a Demographic Dividend
Is the Moral Panic Over Critical Race Theory Justified? A Conversation with Sam Hoadley-Brill
The Post-Title 42 Surge in Border Traffic Hasn’t Happened—Yet.
Joe Biden and Walter Russell Mead Deserve an “F” on India
How to Defuse Nativism in America: A Conversation with Justin Gest
Israel’s Internal Divisions Are Its Mortal Enemy Now
Does Tucker Carlson Still Have a Future?: The UnPopulist Editors' Roundtable
Turkey's Best Shot for Defeating its Illiberal President Is This Sunday
The Arch Conservative Jurist Who Helped Save American Democracy From Trump
Feminism Fights for Liberty and Equality for All: An Interview With Kat Murti
The Nativist Virus Is Spreading: A Global Roundup
Markets Advance Social Justice: A Conversation with Nick Cowen
Turkey Faces a Historic Choice Between its Populist Islamist Present and a Secular Liberal Future
No, Biden Is Not Trump on Immigration
Illiberal Regimes Hate Modernity But Can’t Live Without It
Stopping Putin and Xi From Ganging Up Against Ukraine
Don't Think You'll Escape DeSantis' Immigration Dragnet Just Because You Are an American
Religion Is Not Incompatible With Liberalism: An Interview with Deirdre McCloskey
The U.S. Is Not Close to Doing 'Enough' to Help Ukraine
Does Trump’s New York Indictment Hold Water?: A Roundup
Is the Culture War Eating Every Policy Issue? The UnPopulist’s Editors Discuss
Itamar Ben-Gvir: Israel's Minister of Insecurity
Rank Choice Voting Could Help Cure the GOP's 'Candidate Quality' Problem
Florida Is Where the First Amendment Goes to Die
The US Right's Dangerous Quest for Unbridled State Power: An Interview With Robert Tracinski
How Liberals Can Avoid Succumbing to the Illiberal Temptation
Trump Could Win the Looming Porn Star Case. Why Is He Instigating Violence?
The Four-Legged Unstable Table of the New Right: An Interview With Shikha Dalmia
‘The Courage To Be MAGA-Free’: Not a Book by Ron DeSantis
The American Right’s New Authoritarian Squeeze
The Odyssey of a Transgender Economist
Fighting Fascism Requires Understanding What It Isn’t: An Interview With Author Shane Burly
DeSantis Grooms a Cheap Import From Hungary: Orbánism
Toleration Is Not Enough to Sustain a Liberal Order
A Tolerant Society Can't Mitigate Every Felt Harm: An Interview with Philosopher Andrew Jason Cohen
Politics Sometimes Needs Great Literature to Save It from Itself
The Tyre Nichols Tragedy: Yes, a Law Could Help, Rep. Jim Jordan
Israel's Liberal Democracy Risks Becoming a Casualty of the Palestinian Conflict
Republican Brinkmanship Over Debt Ceiling Risks US Economy, Ignores Core Problems
Designing a ‘Democracy for Busy People’: An Interview With Political Scientist Kevin Elliott
The Populist Right Freely Deploys Philosophies It Deplores on the Left
Is There Such a Thing as ‘the West’?
Trump Would Have Been Disastrous for the Fight for Democracy in Brazil and Ukraine
Those Denied the American Dream Will Wreck It: Black Author James Baldwin’s Landmark 1965 Debate
India Would Have Been a Totalitarian Not a Liberal Country Without Gandhi
Israel’s New Right-Wing Government’s Assault on Its Judiciary
The Insidious Hindutva Campaign to Place Gandhi and His Assassin on the Same Pedestal
What Does Brazil’s Jan. 8 Insurrection Mean for the Country’s Democratic Future?
New-Right Christians Would Repeat Islamist Government Failures
It’s Not Policy Disagreements But Wrong-Headed Means That Are Polarizing America
Does the Bitter House Speakership Fight Mean Tougher Times Ahead?
Is Neighborhood Fragmentation Polarizing America? An Interview with Johns Hopkins' Seth D. Kaplan
Whom Can Orbán Count On as He Screws Up Hungary?
Congressional Monkeys of the Great Disappointment: Why We Need a Liberal Realignment