The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on September 18 has shaken the judiciary at a moment that could test the foundations of American legislature. Justice Ginsburg was a leftist — or “liberal,” in American parlance — mainstay in her 27 years on the court and four decades on the...
Madeleine Albright’s book is a valuable introduction to the state of contemporary politics and a handbook for how to be a better citizen. “Some may view this book and its title as alarmist. Good,” writes former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in her new bestseller Fascism: A Warning. Albright is among the...
Timothy Snyder’s latest book is an important addition to the literature explaining where the present crisis of democracy comes from. A year after On Tyranny, prolific Yale historian Timothy Snyder has written his ninth book, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America. To call it merely the latest iteration of a new wave of “resistance” literature is...
How Democracies Die is less about preaching to the choir and more about encouraging voters to re-examine their thinking. The New York Times bestseller How Democracies Die, by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, provides a fascinating analysis of threats to democracy in comparative context. One of a growing number of bestsellers on authoritarianism, including Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny and Madeleine...
Entertainment and profits aside, it is time FIFA put its money where its mouth is and encourage women to play the beautiful game. Missing teams. Dangerous turf. Low investment. Women’s international football has a problem, not in quality of play or enthusiasm, but in the support provided by its federations...
The fungibility of power, converting fame and gravitas into a nomination and 270 electoral votes, remains an open question. The latest tremor in what has become the earthquake of American presidential politics comes in the form of billionaire media titan Oprah Winfrey’s rumored exploration of a 2020 White House bid....
The anti-Hillary sentiment is directed at the system she represents. Ryan Lochte is to Michael Phelps in swimming what Hillary Clinton is to Donald Trump in polarizing Americans. No major party nominee save for Trump has had such strong negative opinions since opinion polling began. While the cause for voters’ distaste for...
The Trump phenomenon is about much more than Donald Trump. The world’s eyes are on Donald Trump, but something much more profound is going on in America. The maverick Republican presidential nominee is but a symptom of a schism within the party sure to remain unresolved after the election. Trump...
