In Hillbilly Elegy, his best-selling 2016 memoir of “a family and a culture in crisis,” J.D. Vance, now vice-president of the United States, gives an evocative account of the relationship between his hometown and the heroic age of American industrial capitalism.1 The beating heart of Middletown, Ohio, was its steel plant, then called Armco. Vance […]
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Donald Trump is reshaping relations between Europe and the US more dramatically than at any time since World War II.
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In the 2020 disaster movie Greenland, the hero John Garrity (played by Gerard Butler), his wife (Morena Baccarin), and their young son are in a truck driving north from the United States into Canada. We hear on the radio an announcement from NASA: A nine-mile-wide fragment larger than the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs will […]
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Disinhibition will be the order of the day in Donald Trump’s America.
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Kamala Harris’s campaign asks: Who is a normal American now?
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For the fixers, enablers, and vassals who surround Donald Trump, the rewards of his friendship are not worth the risks.
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To understand Trump’s continuing hold over his fans, we have to ask: Why do they find him so funny?
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For a long time, two of the great gerontocracies were the Roman Catholic Church and the Chinese Communist Party. It is quite a thought that if Joe Biden were a Catholic bishop, he would have been required to submit his resignation to the pope five years ago. If he were a cardinal, he would, when […]
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