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In 1992, a young man named Doug Lain decided to run a goldfish for president.

It is now conventional wisdom that the United States is lurching from one blunder to the next.

The explosive rape accusations leveled against seven Cornell students have revived the gender wars of the #MeToo era, offering a reminder of the dramatic transformation undergone by the feminist movement—and the left more broadly—in recent decades.

On October 25, Brazil’s President Lula da Silva bucked the global anti-incumbency trend to win the most hard-fought election since Brazil returned to democracy in 1985.

There are few projects that better capture Mohammed bin Salman’s ambitions for Saudi Arabia than NEOM.

After the Second World War, Europe sought to build a new social order that would mark a dramatic break with its recent militaristic and undemocratic past.

America is in the midst of a dating recession.

In November, Massachusetts voters will have the opportunity to decide whether the state’s recreational marijuana law should be repealed.

A recent Reddit post asks: “So, AI takes over, everyone has lost their job and only 10 trillionaires own everything.

Why is the Islamic world socioeconomically underdeveloped?

Michel Foucault, by some counts the world’s most cited author, was born a hundred years ago today.

Like the 2020s, the “Roaring Twenties” of a century ago witnessed a technological revolution: The rise of the automobile, widespread electrification, and mass production had all transformed everyday life.

When the film God’s Not Dead was released in 2014, it was panned by critics.

In July, Amnesty International UK published a report called “A Growing Threat: The Anti-Rights Movement in the UK.”

New York Governor Kathy Hochul emphasized her gender when asked on October 3 about her appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate a possible rape at a fraternity house at Cornell University in 2024.

Nordic cultural capital is at an all-time high.

On May 30, 2020, five days after the death of George Floyd, the head of a prominent DC-area think tank issued a stentorian condemnation of the killing and the bigotry she said had enabled it.

Hegel said that a tragic situation is one in which both sides are right.

Brazil’s upcoming election pits President Lula da Silva, eighty, against Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, forty-five.

When I was a kid, there were long periods when we didn’t have television.

After a Massachusetts judge announced a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case on September 4, it didn’t take long for the media to turn its focus from the trial to the jurors.

The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real World By Mike Beggs, Ben Burgis, and Bhaskar Sunkara Verso, 432 pages, $29.95 The surprising electoral success of avowedly socialist candidates in big-city mayoral campaigns and some congressional races has

LFI: Anatomie d’une perversion Edited by Pierre-André Taguieff David Reinharc, 424 pages, $26 We live in an age of inversions.

One sunny day in June, I opened up my university email, which I only do occasionally now that I am retired, to see an email marked “confidential” in my inbox.

The future world statesman, in full military uniform, leaps athletically on to the table.

In the last week of July, two incidents involving disruptive Chinese fans of a genre of Asian media triggered something close to a crisis in international relations.

On September 13, Bo French, the Republican nominee for Texas Railroad Commissioner, wrote on X, “I heard UT graduation this year looked like this.

The resignation of Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who warns that AI could “kill us all by the end of the decade,” has prompted a new wave of attention to existential risk from AI, while drawing scrutiny to what the people working at frontier AI compani…

In the wake of Kamala Harris’s defeat in 2024, one heard often that Democrats needed to focus on class rather than identity.

Every developed country faces a deeply uncomfortable problem: People are getting older.

Young people are unhappy, and many observers think they know what is to blame: technology.

The German political establishment’s so-called firewall against the far right is crumbling.

Not long after he arrived in Ireland over the weekend, President Donald Trump declared that it would be “fantastic” and a “cool thing” if the island were to be politically unified, offering an unexpected boost to the Irish republican cause.

The new Netflix production Generation 9/11 is one of those documentaries that tries to do too many things at once, but it finds some of its most affecting moments in interviews with the grown children of the dead.

When Army Air Forces officer Claude Eatherly piloted the plane Straight Flush in support of Enola Gay’s mission to obliterate the city of Hiroshima, his tasks were little different from those of past flights.