There’s no single narrative throughline that cleanly explains last night. It’s time to throw FiveThirtyEight and the polling-analysis-industrial complex into the ocean, but if you’re grasping for a story to reinforce your priors, you’re unlikely to find it.
November 28, 2017When it comes to the working class Trump claims to care deeply about, his deeds don’t go beyond symbolism.
October 31, 2017The new oligarchs, from number-crunching to democracy-choking.
October 3, 2017Take your eyes off Trump and you'll see the most savage fringe of the Republican Party is carefully advancing policies designed to enrich their true constituency.
July 3, 2017That a billionaire would assume the mantle of pitchfork populism may seem like a political and cultural oxymoron, but Trump is far more like his supporters than appearances suggest.
June 5, 2017The gilding of American capitalism happened on both sides of the continent.
May 3, 2017"Populism" does not equal neofascism — and in losing the distinction between "left" and "right," mainstream media makes a big mistake.
April 4, 2017A political movement’s violent pursuit of “enemies.”
March 24, 2017Why the left needs to build power, now.
January 11, 2017The frightening rise of authoritarian populism in the West is a very real, clear and present danger.
