Placing “Guardrails” on the US-China Nuclear Competition
A failure to challenge inflated claims about China’s nuclear arsenal will have serious and painful consequences.
Michael T. KlareRacism and Discrimination
Giving Josephine Baker a Hero’s Grave Won’t Bury the Truth…
About France’s republican racism.
Gary YoungeEurope
Europe’s War on Woke
Why elites across the Atlantic are freaking out about the concept of structural racism.
James McAuleyHigher Education
Who Is the University of Austin For?
The project’s uphill battle points to a deeper contradiction within what might be called neo-neoconservatism.
David KlionPolitics
’Tis the Season for DeJoy’s Removal
Firing Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is essential to ending the crisis at the USPS. But the agency needs more than a “return to quiet competence.”
John Nichols
The Republicans Have Become the Party of Organized Violence
Right now, the GOP views threats of violence as offering a political advantage with no real downside. Normalization of this behavior by President Biden or the media will only make it worse.
Jeet Heer
Paperwork Keeps People Poor
It would be a huge mistake for Democrats to embrace harsh work requirements once again.
Bryce Covert
World
The Trap at the Poland–Belarus Border
Why the Polish ruling party turned a minor border crisis into an “existential threat.”
David Ost
Finnish Democracy Is on the Brink
Finland is vulnerable to the same threats that confront democracies across the EU—the popular appeal of nativist parties, polarized political discourse, and cyber-bullying of minority and female politicians.
David L. Kirp
Europe’s War on Woke
Why elites across the Atlantic are freaking out about the concept of structural racism.
James McAuleyNation Voices
Culture
Dennis Cooper’s Love Story of a Lifetime
His new book, I Wished, asks: What can a novel do in the service of remembering a lost love?
Kate Wolf
Health Care Reform’s History of Utter Failure
Cohn shows how repeated failures by Democrats and Republicans to get a decent policy through our 18th-century constitutional structure led to the strategy that produced the Affordable Care Act.
Ryan Cooper
Gayl Jones’s Epic of Liberation
In her new novel, Jones offers a story of slavery and freedom in the Americas.
Farah Jasmine GriffinWatch and Listen
Listen: Why Republicans Want to Ban the 1619 Project
Martha Jones on history, plus Father Greg Boyle on gangs.
November 18, 2021
Listen: Jen Fitzgerald: A Poet Without a Home
Listen to the full episode of Going For Broke With Ray Suarez
November 15, 2021
