The American New Right Looks Like the European Old Right
When conservatives reject constitutional limits on executive power and foment civil conflict, what exactly are they conserving?
When conservatives reject constitutional limits on executive power and foment civil conflict, what exactly are they conserving?
The pronatalist movement is selling bad policies and rigid ideas about gender. There is a better way.
Vice President J.D. Vance and Sen. Cynthia Lummis are among the latest conservatives to turn their backs on free speech when it comes to their ideological opponents.
Majorities on the left and on the right denounce political violence and its celebration.
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Trump promised that protectionism and immigration enforcement would be good for the economy. The latest jobs report tells a different story.
Today’s MAGA intellectuals rail against COVID restrictions, but in 2020 many cheered them on—or demanded even harsher crackdowns.
What is the relationship between Trump's tariffs and the rest of the economy?
The executive director of The American Conservative discusses Trump's meeting with Netanyahu, support for Ukraine, MAGA schisms, and the president's "grand strategy" on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions.
Vance cast the tie-breaking vote for a bill that will add $4 trillion to the debt. Meanwhile, immigrants are helping to keep the federal government's fiscal house of cards propped up.
Those who pushed for Trump to attack Iran are now moving the goalposts for success.
Trump now has a choice between exiting from a position of strength—or jumping further into an endless war.
On Sunday talk shows, the vice president made the case for bombing Iran—a notable shift from his previous anti-war rhetoric.
The conflict with Iran is the latest in a decadeslong series of regime change operations, long-term entanglements, and all-out wars that always seem to invite more problems.
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Neither American hawks nor Israeli planners intend on allowing for a simple, quick U.S. intervention in Iran.
While the E.U. has fallen short on arms pledges, grassroots fundraisers and independent initiatives have delivered millions of dollars in munitions and supplies to Ukraine.
Two protesters in Wales were convicted for handing out pamphlets and filming an argument with their member of Parliament.
Vance says "you've gotta let these people make decisions on their own." He should try that approach more generally.
The federal courts are supposed to be a bulwark against presidential overreach, not a rubber stamp.
Sitting on the sidelines let America play neutral mediator and talk down both sides.
The pendulum within Trump’s Middle East policy has swung back toward deal making, for now.
Trump's comment about how "dolls" will "cost a couple of bucks more" is the latest in a long trend of nationalist conservatives disparaging affordable stuff.
It appears many people are now eager to dispense with due process.
The feds are rapidly deploying artificial intelligence across spy agencies. What could go wrong?
Vice President J.D. Vance is only the latest to indicate he sees due process, as guaranteed in the Constitution, as an unnecessary impediment to the administration's goals.
A new global survey reveals a stark decline in Americans' support for free speech as the Trump administration tightens its grip on expression.
The White House accidentally leaked military plans in Yemen to a journalist—and demonstrated how unconstitutional U.S. war making has become.
Vox's Kelsey Piper joins the show to discuss the drastic differences between the Biden and Trump administrations on AI—and what it all means for the future of humanity.
Threats to impeach federal judges who rule against the government are a naked attack on their constitutionally crucial function.
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Vanity Fair's James Pogue dives into the dissident right, his personal experiences with MAGA, and how Ukraine policy is unfolding.
Rose Docherty was arrested over her sign, which read: "Coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want."
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As world leaders debate, Ukrainian defenders innovate, adapt, and wage defensive war on their own terms.
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The award-winning journalist discusses the collapse of a post–World War II consensus, online speech police, and the legacy media on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions.
The move effectively retcons J.D. Vance's claim that legal Haitian immigrants were actually here illegally.
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Margaret Brennan should immediately Google the Weimar Fallacy.
The Munich Security Conference was supposed to be a foreign policy forum. Instead, the vice president lectured Europeans about democracy.
Vice President J.D. Vance believes presidents can ignore the courts in some situations. Are we heading for a constitutional crisis?
Trump wants to negotiate instead of bombing Iran. Jilted war hawks are blaming his advisers.
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But that doesn't mean he's embracing the doves.
Roberts identifies genuine problems, but little in the way of good solutions. He also sometimes overlooks ways in which the Supreme Court is partly responsible for the challenges the judiciary faces.
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By picking a former aide to J.D. Vance as the next head of the Department of Justice's antitrust division, Trump sends a worrying signal.