Are We Doomed?

By George Packer, The Atlantic To head off the next insurrection, we’ll need to practice envisioning the worst. A year after the insurrection, I’m trying to imagine the death of American democracy. It’s somehow easier to picture the Earth blasted and bleached by global warming, or the human […]

A Party, and Nation, in Crisis

By Jeffrey Goldberg The Atlantic The GOP’s leaders are ​​attempting to destroy the foundations of American democracy. In October of 1860, The Atlantic’s first editor, James Russell Lowell, wrote of Abraham Lincoln that he “had experience enough in public affairs to make him a statesman, and not enough […]

David Brooks’ Love Affair

By Emile Doak, The American Conservative Conservatism is alive and well. David Brooks is a scorned lover. This refers not to the circumstances surrounding his divorce from his wife of twenty-seven years, finalized in 2014 while he was writing The Road to Character. No, Brooks has instead been […]

Capitol rioter who flew to DC on a private jet says she’s preparing for her 60-day sentence by learning prison slang and meeting consultants

By Sophia Ankel Yahoo News/Business Insider A woman who pleaded guilty in the Capitol riot is preparing for prison. Jenna Ryan told Insider she’d been researching what life was like behind bars. Ryan said she was watching YouTube videos, learning slang, and speaking with prison consultants. A Capitol […]

Springtime of Nations: Tigray

By Charlie Lee Springtime of Nations When Classical Liberalism first gained prominence as a political movement in Europe and the Western Hemisphere in general, the ideology was closely tied to national struggles for independence against large empires. Aside from the liberal nature of the American Revolution, the wars […]

Karen Army Captures Burmese Army Base

By Charlie Lee Pansecession News from AP: While defenseless city dwellers are massacred by the Burmese military dictatorship, the rekindled fight for Karen Independence has born fruit: An important army base was captured near the border with Thailand. The Two freedom fighting factions have began to form a […]