Making sense of the Trump summit with China’s Xi Jinping—a nonevent, and that’s good! But the sources of rivalry remain. Why MAGA respects Chinese power and why an imperialist peace between the great powers is no peace at all.
Trump’s Greenland deal is bad for literally everybody.
Marco Rubio rejects international order at the United Nations and Western governments are stuck pretending that the world’s leading predator nation is its protector.
Against data centers or A.I.? Then the US security state is coming for you! First they came for the peace protestors…
Russian hybrid aggression has spilled out of Ukraine and into Europe—why the “sandbox theory” of support for Ukraine was always going to be self-defeating.
And YouTuber Alec The Pen satirizes the “Secret Society of Democratic Centrists.”
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