Archive - Persuasion

The Good Fight Club: Why the Center Left Is Losing, the Squad vs. the Median Voter, and How Patriotism Wins Elections

Matthew Yglesias, Claire Ainsley, and Yascha Mounk debate whether progressives have abandoned the working-class voters they once claimed to represent.

10 hrs ago • Yascha Mounk

46:28

Pakistan Has Never Looked So Important

There’s only one winner of the Iran deal—the country that made it happen.

Jun 26 • Rashmee Roshan Lall

This Week At Persuasion

Join Francis Fukuyama at Intellectual Bootcamp TODAY! Plus, Curtis Yarvin on The Good Fight.

Jun 26 • Leonora Barclay

Belarus Steps Back From Russia

How Lukashenko exposed Putin’s weakness.

Jun 26 • Nikola Mikovic

Right and Left Are Seeing Two Different Worlds

Even when facts are agreed upon, interpretations are wildly different.

Jun 25 • Dan Williams

Trump Lost Both the War and the Negotiation

America didn’t achieve a single one of its aims in Iran.

Jun 25 • Saeid Golkar

We Need an International Treaty to Ban Superintelligence

No country has an interest in building AI that could wipe out humanity.

Jun 24 • Andrea Miotti

The Kennedy Center Could Have Transformed American Culture

An ode to what might have been.

Jun 24 • joseph horowitz

Mark Leonard on Whether Europe is Doomed

Yascha Mounk and Mark Leonard discuss how the West can defend itself without America.

Jun 23 • Yascha Mounk

58:07

Israel Is the Big Loser of the Iran Deal

It’s time for Israelis to face Netanyahu’s failings.

Jun 23 • Sam Kahn

Colombia Just Elected A Maverick Lawyer As President

The country is about to find out what it means to govern without ideology.

Jun 22 • James Bosworth (Boz)

What Obama Meant

And why the social sector abandons his philosophy at its peril.

Jun 21 • Eboo Patel

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