The End of the Anglo-American Order
For decades, the United States and Britain’s vision of democracy and freedom defined the postwar world. What will happen in an age of Donald Trump and Nigel Farage?
For decades, the United States and Britain’s vision of democracy and freedom defined the postwar world. What will happen in an age of Donald Trump and Nigel Farage?
Ian Buruma The New York Times Magazine Nov 2016 20min Permalink
The night America elected Donald J. Trump president, 38-year-old Richard B. Spencer, who fancies himself the “Karl Marx of the alt-right” and envisions a “white homeland,” crowed, “we’re the establishment now.” If so, then the architect of the new establishment is Spencer’s former mentor, Paul Gottfried, a retired Jewish academic...
Jacob Siegel Tablet Nov 2016 20min Permalink
Fidel Castro, the fiery apostle of revolution who brought the Cold War to the Western Hemisphere in 1959 and then defied the United States for nearly half a century as Cuba’s maximum leader, bedeviling 11 American presidents and briefly pushing the world to the brink of nuclear war, died on Friday. He was 90.
Anthony DePalma New York Times Nov 2016 35min Permalink
Thinking about the right thing to do, now and in the imaginable future.
Masha Gessen New York Review of Books Nov 2016 10min Permalink
Travels through post-election America.
Dave Eggers The Guardian Nov 2016 25min Permalink
The right to choose in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Kiera Feldman Harper's Nov 2016 25min Permalink
The White House after Election Day.
David Remnick New Yorker Nov 2016 45min Permalink
The country has become repressive in a way that it has not been since the Cultural Revolution. What does its darkening political climate—and growing belligerence—mean for the United States?
James Fallows The Atlantic Nov 2016 20min Permalink
A longtime Harper’s contributor considers America as he dies: “When I died, I died of many things: the failing systems; the weakening of age; the exhaustion of the long war against dying. Finally, I succumbed to the lack of ethics in a California hospital, killed by filth and neglect.”
Earl Shorris Harper's Dec 2011 Permalink
Trump came out and took a lunch break, still being mobbed by cameras on the way in and out. On his way back in, I asked him how he would feel about getting picked for a jury. He paused, weighing whether to grace me with a precious sound bite. He turned to me and said, “If it happens, it happens.”
The bloody reign of Rodrigo Duterte, who was elected President of the Phillipines in May.
Adrian Chen New Yorker Nov 2016 40min Permalink
A profile of Steve Bannon — former naval officer and Goldman Sachs banker, executive chairman of Breitbart News, founding chairman of the Government Accountability Institute, and, as of yesterday, Donald Trump’s chief White House strategist.
Joshua Green Businessweek Oct 2015 25min Permalink
“We’re the fucking establishment now. You and I. We’re not…” the young red hat, encircled by his squad, pantomimed the old establishment with a swaying, limp-wristed dance. “We won. Fuck them.”
Mattathias Schwartz The Intercept Nov 2016 Permalink
Predicting the first 100 days.
Evan Osnos New Yorker Sep 2016 20min Permalink
How do we restore consensus in an age so divorced from fact?
Maria Bustillos The Awl Nov 2016 10min Permalink
“They have effectively claimed the progressive causes of the left – from gay rights to women’s equality and protecting Jews from antisemitism – as their own, by depicting Muslim immigrants as the primary threat to all three groups. As fear of Islam has spread, with their encouragement, they have presented themselves as the only true defenders of western identity and western liberties – the last bulwark protecting a besieged Judeo-Christian civilisation from the barbarians at the gates.”
Sasha Polakow-Suransky The Guardian Nov 2016 30min Permalink
A conversation with the former head of the NSA.
John Meroney Playboy Oct 2016 25min Permalink
Project Alamo, Trump’s digital marketing and media operation, is building a base for his post-election future.
Joshua Green, Sasha Issenberg Businessweek Oct 2016 20min Permalink
A profile of the polarizing New Yorker columnist.
Rob Harvilla The Ringer Oct 2016 20min Permalink
Can the Democratic presidential candidate win back the white working class?
George Packer New Yorker Oct 2016 20min Permalink
A former WikiLeaks employee on the motivations driving his old boss.
James Ball Buzzfeed Oct 2016 15min Permalink
How Warren Hinckle and Ramparts magazine helped revive muckraking journalism and launch the New Left.
Peter Collier The New Criterion Oct 2016 Permalink
The changing face of Appalachia.
Chris Offutt Harper's Oct 2016 20min Permalink
A profile of a woman who spends her days evangelizing Donald Trump on TV.
Olivia Nuzzi GQ Oct 2016 15min Permalink
The deserted villages of Senegal.
Kieran Guilbert Thomson Reuters Foundation Oct 2016 15min Permalink