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The Supreme Court Sides With the Constitution

The Good Fight Club: Why Japan’s “Weirdo” Victory Matters, the Rise of Chinese Soft Power, and the End of Asian Stability

Gavin Newsom, You’re No Bill Clinton

This Week At Persuasion

Orbán is Trump’s Immigration Idol

Why American Governments Can’t Get Things Done

The Fallacy Fallacy

Jacob Savage on the Costs of the Great Awokening

The Humanities Are About to Be Automated

How To Build An Abundance Movement in Europe

Episode 181: Hélène Landemore on Politics Without Politicians

Daniel Diermeier on Why Universities Are Their Own Worst Enemies

How To Understand Nativism

The Japanese Love Their Prime Minister. This Is Huge

This Week At Persuasion

Achieving Abundance Is Harder Than It Sounds

The Unexpected Persistence of John Rawls

C. Thi Nguyen on Why Measuring Everything Ruins Everything

Ukraine's Winter of Discontent

Houston, We Have a Problem

The Stakes Are Too High To Be This Cringe

Jung Chang on A Personal History of China

The Real Reason Science Is Broken

Did Slovakia Just Switch Sides?

The Epstein Files and Elite Moral Collapse

Not Everything Is Corruption

Stephen E. Hanson and Jeffrey S. Kopstein on America as a Family Business

Rubio Wants Democracy, Trump Wants Oil

Ruud Koopmans on Immigration and Integration in Europe

Don’t Call Me Francis

Stand Up To Bullies!

Episode 180: Nicolas Stavros Niarchos on the Elements of Power

Martin Wolf on Why Trump’s Economic Revolution Never Happened

Wake Up, Europe

Text Is (Still) King

This Week At Persuasion

The American People Fact-Checked Their Government

When Ambiguity is No Longer Strategic

You Should Read Colleen Hoover

Atul Gawande on Medicine and Mortality

America Is Now a Family Business

Lincoln Would Reject “Heritage America”

They Keep Lying To Us

After Davos

Gašper Beguš on Why Language Doesn’t Make Humans Special

Abundance, Hope, Homelessness

Why I'm Rooting Against My Own Country

This Week At Persuasion

Britain Has Forgotten How to Be Free

The Democratic Socialists of America Are Rejecting Democracy

Another Reminder That Biology Matters in Elite Sports

Damon Linker on Why Trump 2.0 Is More Destructive Than Anyone Expected

Beyond Race

The Morality of a Mafia Boss

Don’t Back Down, Europe

Episode 179: Georgios Varouxakis on the West

ICE Is Imposing Autocracy in Minnesota

Ian Bassin on How to Save American Democracy from Trump

“Heritage Americans” Want to Make Citizenship About Blood

Why Human Rights Depend on the Nation State

This Week At Persuasion

Iran Won't Repeat 1979

Iranians Just Want a Normal Country

AI Will Create Work, Not Decimate It

The Hard Truth About Peace in Ukraine

Rebecca Goldstein on Why Humans Need to Matter

The Prosecution of Jerome Powell

The Left’s Deafening Silence on Iran

The Problem With America’s Venezuela Policy

Scott Anderson on Why Iran’s Real Revolution Might Be Coming

There’s a Strange, Depressing Logic to Trump’s Foreign Policy

Damon Linker on Leo Strauss, Glory, and Gender

Minnesota Burning

Trump Once Again Failed the Decency Test

The Good Fight Club: Maduro’s Capture, Trump’s Foreign Policy Vision, and the Future of American Power

Here’s Why the Iranian Regime Seems Invincible

Greedy Eyes On Greenland

Finally, A Taiwanese President Who Will Stand Up To China

We Already Know Who’s Winning the MAGA Civil War

Venezuela’s New President Is No Moderate

Episode 178: Geoffrey Ward on the American Revolution

Trump Is Going For Regime Change in Venezuela

Maduro Is Gone—Venezuela’s Dictatorship Is Not

Why the Iranian Regime Endures