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How the Biden Presidency Became a Cultural Black Hole The current president isn’t a cultural tastemaker like his predecessors were. Do the aesthetics of the presidency still matter? Biden's presidency has been marked by the absence of a defining aesthetic. | POLITICO illustration/Photos: AP; Getty By Sophie Haigney Politico, 01/30/2022 Sophie Haigney is a journalist and critic with a focus on vi..

Democracy in a Time of Coronavirus Danielle Allen Democracy N0. 62 Special Issue A Broken Social Contract When the new coronavirus arrived in the United States in January 2020, it hit an economy, society, and constitutional democracy fundamentally unprepared. As the scale of the challenge became clear, the country simply could not deliver what was needed to confront it. There was a solution, one..

Is Marching Enough? America is going to have to reckon with its Christians, like it or not. Declan Leary The American Conservative, January 22, 2022 It’s always seemed a bit happy-go-lucky given the subject matter. The March for Life, now in its 49th year, kicks off with a Christian rock concert—praise-and-worship with an acoustic guitar as a bunch of heart-shaped balloons reading “Love Them Bot..

'Tractor Wars' Review: American Power Pull The farm tractor wasn’t born overnight. Perfecting it led to a three-way battle between Ford, John Deere and International Harvester. Henry Ford on an early tractor. Photo: Bettmann Archive By Michael Taube The Wall Street Journal Dec. 29, 2021 6:01 pm ET When one thinks of Henry Ford, one thinks of automobiles. The visionary engineer and entrepreneur a..

South Korea and America Must Look Beyond Pyongyang As Beijing continues to push its preferences on the international order, it is time for South Korea and the United States to look beyond Pyongyang and assert more significant influence throughout the Indo-Pacific region. by Patrick M. Cronin Follow @PMCroninHudson on Twitter L Yoo Jin Bae National Interest November 29, 2021 The announcement that..

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Moon’s Inter-Korea Peace Process Deadlocked in China-US Tensions U.S. President Joe Biden has opened the possibility of a diplomatic boycott for the Beijing Winter Olympics, potentially killing the final hope the Moon administration had to see productive results. By Mitch Shin The Diplomat November 23, 2021 Credit: Official White House PhotoAdvertisement South Korean President Moon Jae-in has on..

The Complicated Truth About Trump 2024 The former president may already be running for president again—or it may be a lot of bluster. Getty / The Atlantic By Peter Nicholas The Atlantic November 21, 2021 If Donald Trump tries to run for president again, one of his former campaign advisers has a plan to dissuade him. Anticipating that Trump may not know who Adlai Stevenson was or that he lost two..

CIA continues to conceal JFK assassination files. But here’s what we do know | Opinion Jefferson Morley Yahoo USA November 22, 2021, 8:09 AM As a professional journalist who has been reporting on the assassination of John F. Kennedy for almost 30 years, I have long been skeptical about the pursuit of a proverbial “smoking gun” that supposedly will blow open the case of the murdered president. Wh..

What Happened to Gun Culture During the past three decades, it became one of the most dangerous elements of the right. How much of that can be blamed on the N.R.A.? By Benjamin Wallace-Wells The New Yorker November 16, 2021 Illustration by Angie Wang Wayne LaPierre, the longtime head of the National Rifle Association, is one of the most successful lobbyists in American history, one of the centra..