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The Election That Could Break America
Paywall possible · 439 saves · Sep 23rd · Barton Gellman · If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him?
How Conspiracy Theories Are Shaping the 2020 Election—and Shaking the Foundation of American Democracy
7 min read · 204 saves · Sep 10th · Democracy relies on an informed public responding to real-life facts. But a growing number of Americans are untethered from reality.
Michael Sandel: 'The populist backlash has been a revolt against the tyranny of merit'
9 min read · 179 saves · Sep 6th · Julian Coman · The philosopher believes the liberal left’s pursuit of meritocracy has betrayed the working classes. His new book argues for a politics centred on dignity
Facebook Has Been a Disaster for the World
4 min read · Paywall possible · 150 saves · Sep 18th · Jamelle Bouie · How much longer are we going to allow its platform to foment hatred and undermine democracy?
Simulating Democracy
~15 min read · 73 saves · Oct 8th · Jill Lepore is a brilliant and prolific historian with an eye for unusual and revealing stories, and her new book If Then: How the…
The Last Best Hope for America
20+ min read · Paywall possible · 57 saves · Sep 9th · George Packer · The country is at a low point. But we may be on the cusp of an era of radical reform that repairs our broken…
There are no good choices
6 min read · 50 saves · Sep 14th · Ezra Klein · In shifting so much responsibility to individual people, America’s government has revealed the limits of individualism.
How RBG's death could radicalize American politics
1 min read · Paywall possible · 35 saves · Sep 19th · The battle over her replacement has the potential to spur far-reaching, long-term change.
In many countries, people are more negative about the economy amid COVID-19 than during Great Recession
4 min read · 27 saves · Sep 14th · A median of 80% across 10 countries now say their country’s economy is faring badly, compared with a median of 72% who said this…
Politics is in peril if it ignores how humans regulate the body
~15 min read · Paywall possible · 26 saves · Sep 18th · In an age thick with anger and fear, we might dream of a purely rational politics but it would be a denial of our…