Viewpoints
Civil Society
Service, Please!

Why the Colorado baker and the Red Hen owner both did the wrong thing.

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Print & Pixels
Not Quite the Big Picture

A new book on the changing face of Hollywood is smarter on commerce than on culture.  

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Trump's SCOTUS Pick
Contempt of Court

Conservatives’ hardball tactics in moving the Supreme Court rightward could undercut its most important asset.

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Lose-Lose
The Great Unraveling, Cont’d

Donald Trump’s upcoming schmooze fest with Vladimir Putin at their July 16 summit confirms Europe’s worst fears: No. 45 really does want to wreck the American-built global order.

After Trump
The Right’s Straw Left

Obsessed with “owning the libs”, the Right has missed how it has opened the door to a muscular, credible populism of the Left.

Our Russian Future
The Age of Flux

The future arrived in Russia first, and then spread to the West, with all the now too-familiar negative consequences. But for all its tragedy, there was also a sense of possibility then—as now.

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race and admissions
Affirming Disadvantage

The old rationales for racial preferences in admissions no longer make any sense. It’s time for enlightened America to hit the reset button.

Sovereign Confusion
The World Is Still a Dangerous Place

The UN is flawed. It’s also where governments go to do diplomacy

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Big Brother Rising
Three Glimpses of the Future

As the world hurtles toward a systemically digitized existence, some unpleasant alternatives to governance are coming clearly into view.

To Cure What Ails Us
A More-Than-Minimal Democracy

Democratic governance has to be about far more than just elections.

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