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Shadi Hamid on the Tensions Between Liberalism and Democracy

The Intolerable Risks of Frozen Conflicts

This Week at Persuasion

Biden Should Not Run in 2024

Biden Should Run in 2024

The Revolt Against Iran's Theocratic Regime

The Supreme Court Needs a Code of Conduct

Americans Don’t Want Election Deniers

The "Twitter Files" Show It’s Time to Reimagine Free Speech Online

Ben Rhodes on Where American Foreign Policy Went Wrong

The Irony at the End of History

The Curriculum Wars Are Based On An Illusion

This Week at Persuasion

How Not to do Charity

James Kirchick on America’s Enormous Progress on Gay Rights

The Respect for Marriage Act Is Historic

What Does Peter Thiel Want?

Persuasion is Hiring!

This Week at Persuasion

How Liberals Lost Their Way on Affirmative Action

Danielle Allen on the Enduring Relevance of the Constitution

The Art of Consolation

This Week at Persuasion

What Mexico Gets Right About Race

Renée DiResta on How (Not) to Fix Social Media

Four Scenarios for the 2024 Republican Primaries

Why Trust In Journalism Has Collapsed

This Week at Persuasion

The Monarchy Strengthens British Democracy

Ed Luce on America’s Future After the Midterms

Why The Red Wave Didn’t Happen

What the Midterms Meant

This Week at Persuasion

Why Bolsonaro Is Going Quietly

Russ Muirhead on the Enduring Appeal of Conspiracy Theory

What Is Integralism?

When Assisted Suicide Goes Too Far

This Week at Persuasion

An Imperial Mindset

Sam Harris on Whether Religion Really Does Make Everything Worse

The New Nihilists

How China Exerts Its Power

This Week at Persuasion

What Liz Truss Proved

Lis Smith on What Democrats Do Wrong

The Internet’s Ultimate Censors

Talking About John Fetterman’s Stroke Is Not Ableism

This Week at Persuasion

Chairman Xi

Shashank Joshi on How the War in Ukraine Will End

The Road To Hell: Berlin, 1933

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Learning From Our Limits

Men Are Falling Behind

Why More and More Children are Cutting Off Their Parents

Why China Didn’t Liberalize

Adults Today Care Too Much What Young People Think

This Week at Persuasion

Waiting For the Generals

Heather McGhee on Why Racial Progress is Not Zero-Sum

Congress Is Finally Moving to Fortify American Democracy

Coming Home to Bucha

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Italy’s Turn to the Right

Richard Reeves on Why Men are Struggling

Winter Is Coming…

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The Danger of Politicizing Science

Give Ordinary People a Say On Abortion (and Other Contentious Issues)

Robert Kagan on America’s Future, Foreign Policy Realism, and the War in Ukraine

Britain Needs A Real Constitution

This Week at Persuasion

The Problem with “Decolonizing” Global Health

What Is National Conservatism?

Chloé Valdary on How to be a (True) Antiracist

How Social Media Destroys the Things That Matter Most

Gorbachev’s Legacy

This Week at Persuasion

How Not To Write A Constitution

Should Donald Trump Be Prosecuted?

The Case Against Prosecuting Donald Trump

The Case for Prosecuting Donald Trump

This Week at Persuasion

Against Shadow Banning

The Kids Are Alright

To Reform the Police, Join It

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James Baldwin's Radicalism

The Unseen Side of "Cancel Culture"

The Polarization Spiral

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The Reality Ally

Coleman Hughes on How America Racializes its Citizens

Trump’s Mess at Mar-a-Lago

Democrats Are Finally Coming To Their Senses

This Week at Persuasion

The F.D.A.’s Misguided War on Vaping

Sarah Longwell on 2024

Now is Not The Time to Let Putin Save Face

Paths to Depolarization

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America Should Allow Death Row Organ Donation

What an Overly Pessimistic View of America Gets Wrong

When Democracy Goes South

The Corruption of Apology

This Week at Persuasion

The Forgotten Philosopher Who Can Fix Our Economy

Corey Brettschneider on Free Speech

The Persuasion Festival: 2022

The GOP's Embrace of Economic Nationalism

The Racial Binary Is Inadequate

This Week at Persuasion

Spin Dictators

There Won’t Be a “Civil War”...

Dear Democrats, Stop Boosting Trumpist Candidates!

This Week at Persuasion

Misinformation Is Here To Stay (And That’s OK)

David French on Abortion

Boris Johnson's Downfall

The Best of Persuasion: 2022

This Week at Persuasion

Khizr Khan: Why I Love America

Graeme Wood on January 6th, Saudi Arabia, and Interviewing Extremists

America Is Headed For Disaster

A Personal Plea to Help Hong Kong

The Moderate Majority on Abortion

This Week at Persuasion

How We Got Bipartisan Gun Reform

Do the Politics of Class and Race Stand in Tension?

Life in Shanghai’s Lockdown

What Is A Woman?

This Week at Persuasion

Introducing Conversation Clubs

The French Left Ascendant

Ian Bremmer on the Geopolitical Recession

What History Teaches Us About January 6th

James Joyce’s Humanism

The Kids Are Alright

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End College Booster Mandates

What Went Wrong in Afghanistan

Brexit: Good or Bad for Britain?

Why Democrats Are Recalling Their Own

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Banning Hate Speech Won’t End Extremist Violence

🎧 Are America's Institutions Broken?

Beyond the First Amendment

Shanghai’s Last Generation

This Week at Persuasion

Lessons for the Left from the United Kingdom

🎧 Robert P. George on Free Speech, Philosophical Liberalism, and Conservatism After Trump

We Are Broken

This Week at Persuasion

The Dangerous Movement to Stop Treating the Mentally Ill

America’s Abortion Debate Is Broken

🎧 Adolph Reed, Jr. on Race and Class in America

When Words Lose Their Meanings

The 19th Century Never Ended

This Week at Persuasion

America’s Hidden Strength

🎧 Thomas Piketty on Why the World Keeps Getting More Equal

Three Dubious Claims About Social Media

The Children of Strongmen

This Week at Persuasion

Carbon Is Making Us Dependent on Dictators...

🎧 David Wallace-Wells on Climate Change

The Attitude of Empire

We Did Not Ask for "Liberation"

This Week at Persuasion

Some Lessons from the Sorry History of Campus Speech Codes

🎧 Jonathan Haidt on Why Public Discourse Has Become So Stupid

Germany’s Shame

Against the College Admissions Essay

This Week at Persuasion

Yascha Mounk: America Won’t Ever Be Majority Minority

🎧 Yascha Mounk on Making Diverse Democracies Work

Inside the Siege of Ukraine’s Cities

Reclaiming Populism

This Week at Persuasion

How the BBC Risks Eroding Its Neutrality

The Classics are for Everyone

Educators Should Practice Principled Neutrality

Why My NYT Article Inspired So Much Fury

This Week at Persuasion

Macron Is In Danger

🎧 Randall Kennedy on Racism, Critical Race Theory, and the Need for (Chastened) Optimism

Cars Are Here to Stay

Hungary's Point of No Return

This Week at Persuasion

Why a Ukrainian Insurgency Would Succeed

🎧 T. M. Scanlon on What We Owe to Each Other

What Happens When the Scientists Disagree?

This Week at Persuasion

Ukraine United Us

The Many Faces of Literary Censorship

🎧 Anne Applebaum on How to Fight Back Against Dictators Like Putin

Israel's Change Coalition is a Template to Fight Populism

The Slow Death of Gandhi’s India

This Week at Persuasion

Dictators Won't Solve Climate Change

🎧 How the War Might End

A Connected World Is Tearing Us Apart

International Organizations are Failing Ethiopia

The Real Threat to American Democracy

This Week at Persuasion

History Brought Us Here

🎧 Russia, Today

The Curriculum Wars

This Week at Persuasion

Putin's Unholy Alliance

What Is a Nation?

🎧 Lea Ypi on Freedom

The Brave Russians Speaking Out Against the War

This Week at Persuasion

Seven Days of War

🎧 George Packer on the War in Ukraine

The Contradictions of American History

Mounk: The End of an Illusion

This Week at Persuasion

To Reform the Police, Join It

🎧 Moisés Naím on The Revenge of Power

Twitter's Flawed Justification for Censorship

This Week at Persuasion

The Case for Defending Ukraine

The Case for Restraint on Ukraine

🎧 Jonathan Sumption on the Limits of State Power

Ending Our Censorship Spiral

How to Live With Covid

This Week at Persuasion

The Powerless are Hurt Most by “Cancel Culture”

🎧 How (Not) to Save Refugees

Opting Out of Whiteness

“Woke” Politics Comes to Latin America

This Week at Persuasion

Boris Johnson’s Nine Lives Are Up

🎧 Javier Cercas on How to Deal With Your Nation’s Past

Telltale Signs of Democratic Backsliding

America Can't Retreat from the World

This Week at Persuasion

The Problem With “Systemic Racism”

🎧 Ramachandra Guha on the Crisis in the World’s Largest Democracy

Biden’s First Year

Heroes of the 2020 Election

This Week at Persuasion

Filibuster Reform is a Dangerous Necessity

🎧 The Conservative Case for Philosophical Liberalism

The Reactionary Trap

Fighting Fake News, In Court

This Week at Persuasion

Lessons From a Flawed Genius

🎧 Fiona Hill on the Working Class, Populism, and Russia

Race Isn’t a “Risk Factor”

The Real Danger in 2024

This Week at Persuasion

Yes In My Backyard!