Alternative Media, Trump 2.0, and the Moment in Politics Alternative Media, Trump 2.0, and the Moment in Politics
On this episode of American Prestige, Katrina vanden Heuvel on the current state of politics, left journalism, Ukraine, and more.
Apr 8, 2025 / Podcast / Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison
Trump Is Loomering His Own Administration Trump Is Loomering His Own Administration
The ongoing internal witch hunt led by the far-right provocateur is a sign of a GOP crack-up.
Apr 7, 2025 / Jeet Heer
Syria’s New Rulers Get a Makeover Syria’s New Rulers Get a Makeover
The country’s new leader, Ahmed al-Shara, has donned a suit, trimmed his beard, and dropped his nom de guerre. But Syrians are still afraid.
Apr 7, 2025 / Charles Glass
Is Europe the Last Champion of Liberal Democracy? Is Europe the Last Champion of Liberal Democracy?
At the moment, unfortunately, it seems more likely that Europe will be the last powerful holdout in a world entering a new political Dark Age.
Apr 4, 2025 / John Feffer
Could the US and China Conclude an Agreement Halting the Momentum Toward Conflict? Could the US and China Conclude an Agreement Halting the Momentum Toward Conflict?
How Trump’s attack on the global order endangers a deal Beijing might otherwise accept.
Apr 3, 2025 / Jake Werner
Worse Than McCarthyism: Universities in the Age of Trump Worse Than McCarthyism: Universities in the Age of Trump
The target then was the nonexistent threat of Communist teachers; today, it’s the supposed radicalism of the academy and its alleged failure to fight antisemitism.
Apr 3, 2025 / Ellen Schrecker
Trump Is Exploiting the Paranoid Fantasies that Drove the War on Terror Trump Is Exploiting the Paranoid Fantasies that Drove the War on Terror
The antidemocratic policies put in place after 9/11 have come home to roost.
Apr 1, 2025 / Karen J. Greenberg
Netanyahu’s War Netanyahu’s War
Bombing returns and the death toll rises.
Apr 1, 2025 / OppArt / Annabelle Heckler
Trump’s Academic Purge Will Make America Stupid and Provincial Again Trump’s Academic Purge Will Make America Stupid and Provincial Again
The administration’s targeting of international students is a return to a disgraced tradition of xenophobic anti-intellectualism.
Mar 31, 2025 / Jeet Heer
A Mother’s Plea From Gaza to the People of the World A Mother’s Plea From Gaza to the People of the World
As Ramadan comes to an end, a mother prays that she can safely break her fast with their children, with sufficient food and clean water, without fear of being torn to pieces by bo...
Mar 31, 2025 / Mariam Alfarra