Relegant Index
Op-Ed Articles: 2025
- America’s famed ‘checks-and-balances’ governance system is failing
- by Jan-Werner Müller; The Guardian, Jul. 16, 2025
- Jeffrey Epstein Is a Policy Issue
- by David Dayen; The American Prospect, Jul. 15, 2025
- Tucker Carlson’s Harsh New Takedown of Trump Rattles MAGA
- by Greg Sargent & Nicole Hemmer; The New Republic, Jul. 15, 2025
- Letters from an American, Jul. 14, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Trump finds himself on the wrong side of Epstein conspiracy theory
- by Philip Bump; Washington Post, Jul. 14, 2025
- Letters from an American, Jul. 8, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- What Elon Musk Gets Wrong About Our Broken Political System
- by Lee Drutman; POLITICO, Jul. 8, 2025
- Letters from an American, Jul. 6, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Did Canada just change how we think of Trump’s 2024 election?
- by Lenny Bronner and Andrew Van Dam; Washington Post, Jul. 4, 2025
- Letters from an American, Jun. 30, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Trump Insults America — Again
- by Tom Nichols; The Atlantic, Jun. 30, 2025
- Letters from an American, Jun. 28, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- A Northwestern graduate’s commencement speech elevates doubt
- by Clary Doyle; Washington Post, Jun. 25, 2025
- Zohran Mamdani has unleashed a political earthquake
- by Ben Davis; The Guardian, Jun. 26, 2025
- Letters from an American, Jun. 24, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- The Republican Megabill’s Horrible Compromise
- by Jonathan Chait; The Atlantic, Jun. 23, 2025
- Letters from an American, Jun. 20, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Trump Is Daring Us to Impeach Him Again
- by Thomas B. Edsall; New York Times, Jun. 17, 2025
- Letters from an American, Jun. 16, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- How Trump is damaging America’s economic brand
- by Gene Sperling; Washington Post, Jun. 16, 2025
- The Tyrant Test
- by Adam Serwer; The Atlantic, Jun. 16,2025
- Americans disagree on much – but this week, we have found common ground
- by Robert Reich; The Guardian, Jun. 14, 2025
- We are no longer free. But we can win our freedom back
- by Deepak Bhargava; The Guardian, Jun. 14, 2025
- Letters from an American, Jun. 12, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- The Pardon Power Is Helping Trump Realize His Dreams
- by Thomas B. Edsall; New York Times, Jun. 10, 2025
- Letters from an American, Jun. 10, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ bill is built on falsehoods about low-income families
- by Brigid Schulte & Haley Swenson; The Guardian, Jun. 9, 2025
- Letters from an American, Jun. 9, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Letters from an American, Jun. 8, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Corruption Has Flooded America. The Dams Are Breaking.
- by Ben Rhodes, New York Times, Jun. 8, 2025
- Letters from an American, Jun. 6, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Letters from an American, Jun. 5, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Letters from an American, Jun. 4, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- No One Can Offer Any Hope
- by George Packer; The Atlantic, Jun. 4, 2025
- Letters from an American, Jun. 3, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- JD Vance Wanted to ‘Aggressively Attack’ American Universities. His Wish Has Been Trump’s Command.
- by Thomas B. Edsall; New York Times, Jun. 3, 2025
- Letters from an American, Jun. 2, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Letters from an American, May 30, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Letters from an American, May 22, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Letters from an American, May 21, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- The Dead End of Checks and Balances
- by Lisa L. Miller; Boston Review, May 21, 2025
- Letters from an American, May 20, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Letters from an American, May 19, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- The President Will Destroy You Now
- by Thomas B. Edsall; New York Times, May 20, 2025
- Letters from an American, May 18, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Trump Is Destroying a Core American Value. The World Will Notice.
- by Michael Posner; New York Times, May 18, 2025
- Letters from an American, May 17, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- How Donald Trump’s ‘historic’ Gulf state deals benefit a handful of powerful men
- by Blake Montgomery; The Guardian, May 17, 2025
- Letters from an American, May 16, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Letters from an American, May 15, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Letters from an American, May 14, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- ‘We Are in a Moment of Unparalleled Peril’: An Interview With Naomi Klein
- The American Prospect, May 13, 2025
- Shamelessness Is Trump’s Superpower
- by Thomas B. Edsall; New York Times, May 13, 2025
- No One Has Ever Defeated Autocracy From the Sidelines
- by Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way and Daniel Ziblatt; New York Times, May 8, 2025
- ‘Outdated and unjust’: can we reform global capitalism?
- by John Cassidy; The Guardian, May 8, 2025
- Letters from an American, May 8, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Letters from an American, May 7, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Apple’s Monopoly Is Finally Held Accountable
- by David Dayen; The American Prospect, May 2, 2025
- There Are Conflicts of Interest. And Then There’s Trump.
- by Thomas B. Edsall; New York Times, May 6, 2025
- Letters from an American, May 6, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Letters from an American, May 5, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Letters from an American, May 4, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- We are witnessing slow constitutional collapse in the US
- by Moira Donegan; The Guardian, Apr. 30, 2025
- The End of the Enlightenment?
- by Alan Lightman; The Atlantic, Apr. 30, 2025
- After 100 days, Trump has destroyed Trumpism
- by Sidney Blumenthal; The Guardian, Apr. 30, 2025
- If You’re a Voter Reading This, This Essay Is Not About You
- by Rob Flaherty; New York Times, Apr. 28, 2025
- Why Trump’s Economic Disruption Will Be Hard to Reverse
- by Patricia Cohen; New York Times, Apr. 28, 2025
- How Trump Plays Into Putin’s Hands, From Ukraine to Slashing U.S. Institutions
- by Peter Baker; New York Times, Apr. 26, 2025
- Ukraine has exposed Trump’s true identity: as a vandal, an autocrat, a gangster and a fool
- by Jonathan Freedland; The Guardian, Apr. 25, 2025
- The Coming Economic Nightmare
- by David Frum; The Atlantic, Apr. 25, 2025
- David Brooks Gets Something Right
- by Paul Street; CounterPunch, Apr. 25, 2025
- Three Theses on Trump’s Rule
- by Stephen F. Eisenman; CounterPunch, Apr. 25, 2025
- Trump Shows His Hand as a Putin Partner
- by Ruth Ben-Ghiat; Lucid, Apr. 24, 2025
- Trump’s Strength Is His Greatest Weakness
- by David Brooks; New York Times, Apr. 24, 2025
- The most dangerous part of Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine
- by Max Boot; Washington Post, Apr. 24, 2025
- Letters from an American, Apr. 23, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Letters from an American, Apr. 22, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Letters from an American, Apr. 21, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Is America an Autocracy Now?
- by Ruth Ben-Ghiat; Lucid, Apr. 21, 2025
- Letters from an American, Apr. 18, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Trump’s 100 days will be recalled as a historic failure
- by Dana Milbank; Washington Post, Apr. 18, 2025
- What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal.
- by David Brooks; New York Times, Apr. 17, 2025
- America’s Mad King
- by Peter Wehner; The Atlantic, Apr. 17, 2025
- Letters from an American, Apr. 16, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- The Two Movements
- by David Dayen; The American Prospect, Apr. 15, 2025
- What the Courts Can Still Do to Constrain Trump
- by Stephen I. Vladeck; The Atlantic, Apr. 15, 2025
- Letters from an American, Apr. 15, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Trump’s tariffs are reckless – but they hold a key lesson for Democrats
- by David Sirota; The Guardian, Apr. 15, 2025
- Kleptocracy, Inc.
- by Anne Applebaum; The Atlantic, Apr. 14, 2025
- Trump Has Found His Class Enemy
- by Franklin Foer; The Atlantic, Apr. 13, 2025
- Trump Brings Britain’s ‘Moron Premium’ to the U.S.
- by Paul Mason; The Atlantic, Apr. 12, 2025
- Democracy Disappeared
- by Henry Giroux; CounterPunch.org, Apr. 11, 2025
- Tim Walz is back, looking for answers in the red states
- by Karen Tumulty; Washington Post, Apr. 11, 2025
- Trump orders investigations into two of his critics. Here’s why that’s stunning.
- by Aaron Blake; Washington Post, Apr. 10, 2025
- Democrats’ problem isn’t just messaging – it’s the electoral math
- by David Daley; The Guardian, Apr. 10, 2025
- Trump’s Lust for Power Cannot Be Satiated
- by Jamelle Bouie; New York Times, Apr. 9, 2025
- Donald Trump has transformed the American story
- by Osita Nwanevu; The Guardian, Apr. 9, 2025
- I Hope MAGA Investors Enjoy the Crisis They Caused
- by Ryan Cooper; The American Prospect, Apr. 8, 2025
- What to Expect When You’re Expecting an Oligarchy
- by Anastasia Edel; The Atlantic, Apr. 7, 2025
- Letters from an American, Apr. 4, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- A Conversation With Elizabeth Warren
- Paul Krugman, Apr. 3, 2025
- Letters from an American, Apr. 3, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Letters from an American, Apr. 2, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- The Good News About Trump’s Tariffs
- by Jonathan Chait; The Atlantic, Apr. 2, 2025
- Trump’s Tariffs Make Absolutely No Sense
- by Jason Furman; New York Times, Mar. 31, 2025
- Letters from an American, Mar. 30, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- I was an independent observer in the Greenpeace trial. What I saw was shocking
- by Steven Donziger; The Guardian, Mar. 28, 2025
- Fired FTC commissioner sounds ‘blinking red alarm’ over apparent rise of billionaire power under Trump
- by ; The Guardian, Mar. 28, 2025
- Letters from an American, Mar. 27, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Trump Is Taking the Law Into His Own Hands
- by David French; New York Times, Mar. 27, 2025
- Could Elon Musk Actually Destroy Social Security as We Know It?
- by Sam Pizzigati; CounterPunch, Mar. 26, 2025
- Donald Trump’s ‘war on woke’ is fast becoming a war on science. That’s incredibly dangerous
- by Christina Pagel; The Guardian, Mar. 26, 2025
- Trump’s Environmental Agenda Is Actually Toxic
- by Thomas B. Edsall; New York Times, Mar. 25, 2025
- Donald Trump’s Automatons
- by George Packer; The Atlantic, Mar. 25, 2025
- The Existential Threat of Ultra-Billionaires
- by Ryan Cooper; The American Prospect, Mar. 25, 2025
- Donald Trump is seeking to erase the United States as we know it
- by Laurence H. Tribe; The Guardian, Mar. 24, 2025
- The Judiciary's Last Stand
- by Tom Nichols; The Atlantic, Mar. 24, 2025
- Don’t count on the courts to save democracy
- by Ryan D. Doerfler and Samuel Moyn; Washington Post, Mar. 20, 2025
- Trump Is Breaking Things. They Can’t All Be Fixed by the Courts.
- by Stephen I. Vladeck; New York Times, Mar. 20, 2025
- It May Not Be Brainwashing, but It’s Not Democracy, Either
- by Thomas B. Edsall; New York Times, Mar. 18, 2025
- Letters from an American, Mar. 17, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- An Abundance of Ambiguity
- by Zephyr Teachout; Washington Monthly, Mar. 17, 2025
- This Is No Time for the Democrats to Hang Back
- by Norman J. Ornstein; The New Republic, Mar. 11, 2025
- Letters from an American, Mar. 11, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Letters from an American, Mar. 5, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Donald Trump’s Golden Age of Bunk
- by Susan Glasser; The New Yorker, Mar. 5, 2025
- Vengeance Is His
- by Thomas B. Edsall; New York Times, Mar. 4, 2025
- Letters from an American, Mar. 2, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- The Putinization of America
- by Garry Kasparov; The Atlantic, Feb. 28, 2025
- The War on DEI Is an Old American Story
- by Colbert I. King; Washington Post, Feb. 28, 2025
- Democrats Need A Battle Plan—And A War Room
- by Murshed Zaheed; Off Message, Feb. 28, 2025
- Recapturing the Supreme Court for the people
- by Sheldon Whitehouse; The Contrarian, Feb. 26, 2025
- Call It the Intimidation Agenda
- by Thomas B. Edsall; New York Times, Feb. 25, 2025
- One Word Describes Trump
- by Jonathan Rauch; The Atlantic, Feb. 24, 2025
- The Real Goal of the Trump Economy
- by Jonathan Chait; The Atlantic, Feb. 24, 2025
- Here Are the Digital Clues to What Musk Is Really Up To
- by Zeynep Tufekci; New York Times; Feb. 21, 2025
- The Trump World Order
- by George Packer; The Atlantic, Feb. 20, 2025
- Letters from an American, Feb. 19, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Musk’s rampage through government shows us how we can finally close the book on what Trumpism is all about
- by Osita Nwanevu; The Guardian, Feb. 18, 2025
- Donald Trump has become master of the US Senate
- by Sidney Blumenthal; The Guardian, Feb. 16, 2025
- Letters from an American, Feb. 14, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Trump and Musk Are Pushing for Regime Change
- by Anne Applebaum; The Atlantic, Feb. 13, 2025
- The President Is on a Mission to Destroy the ‘Enemy From Within’
- by Thomas B. Edsall; New York Times, Feb. 11, 2025
- Letters from an American, Feb. 9, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- This Isn’t the Donald Trump America Elected
- by Ben Rhodes; New York Times, Feb. 9, 2025
- Corrupted Capitalism and Dithering Democrats
- by Robert Kuttner; The American Prospect, Feb. 6, 2025
- 'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook
- by Gil Duran; The Nerd Reich, Feb. 5, 2025
- ‘Trump’s Thomas Cromwell’ Is Waiting in the Wings
- by Thomas B. Edsall; New York Times, Feb. 4, 2025
- Letters from an American, Feb. 3, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Why are the Democrats so spineless?
- by Moira Donegan; The Guardian, Feb. 3, 2025
- The Tasks of an Anti-Trump Coalition
- by David Frum; The Atlantic, Feb. 2, 2025
- The Anti-President
- by Joyce Vance; Civil Discourse, Feb. 1, 2025
- Letters from an American, Feb. 1, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- The Price America Will Pay for Trump’s Tariffs
- by David Frum; The Atlantic, Feb. 1, 2025
- Trump’s Test of the Constitution
- by Editorial Board; New York Times, Feb. 1, 2025
- Letters from an American, Jan. 31, 2025
- by Heather Cox Richardson
- Donald Trump’s Second Term Begins With a Crash
- by Ryan Cooper; The American Prospect, Jan. 30, 2025
- Stop Feeling Stunned and Wounded, Liberals. It’s Time to Fight Back.
- by Charles M. Blow; New York Times, Jan. 29, 2025
- How to Push Back
- by Joyce Vance; Civil Discourse, Jan. 29, 2025
- Where Is President Trump Taking Us?
- by Thomas B. Edsall; New York Times, Jan. 28, 2025
- Europe’s Elon Musk Problem
- by Anne Applebaum; The Atlantic, Jan. 27, 2025
- The loudest megaphone: how Trump mastered our new attention age
- by Chris Hayes; The Guardian, Jan. 28, 2025
- How a German Thinker Explains MAGA Morality
- by David French; New York Times, Jan. 26, 2025
- Elon Musk’s hostile takeover
- by Quinn Slobodian; New Statesman, Jan. 15, 2025
- Trump inauguration: The real reason Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos support Trump
- by Sigal Samuel; Vox, Jan. 20, 2025
- ‘Reactionary nihilism’: how a rightwing movement strives to end US democracy
- The Guardian, Jan. 19, 2025
- An Expert in Grand Strategy Thinks Trump Is on to Something
- by Thomas P.M. Barnett; POLITICO, Jan. 16, 2025
- Are We Sleepwalking Into Autocracy?
- Kim Lane Scheppele by & Norman Eisen; New York Times, Jan. 15, 2025
- How to Fix America’s Two-Party Problem
- by Jesse Wegman & Lee Drutman; New York Times, Jan. 14, 2025
- How Deep Is the Wound to the Democratic Party?
- by Thomas B. Edsall; New York Times, Jan. 7, 2025
- RFK Jr. and the End of Enlightenment Rationality
- by Anne Applebaum; The Atlantic, Jan. 7, 2025
Articles of Note: Climate Change
- The rightwing US supreme court has climate protection in its sights
- by Laurence H. Tribe and Jeremy Lewin; The Guardian, Feb. 28, 2022
- This is how we defeat Putin and other petrostate autocrats
- by Bill McKibben; The Guardian, Feb. 25, 2022
- Think big on climate: the transformation of society in months has been done before
- by George Monbiot; The Guardian, Oct. 20, 2021
- Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed. Keep them on the hook
- by Rebecca Solnit; The Guardian, Aug. 23, 2021
- Our climate change turning point is right here, right now
- by Rebecca Solnit; The Guardian, July 12, 2021
Articles of Note: General
- The trouble with AI art isn’t just lack of originality. It’s something far bigger
- by Eric Reinhart; The Guardian, May 20, 2025
- There’s a Reason the World Is a Mess...
- by Aaron Benanav; New York Times, Apr. 21, 2025
- Meet Wolfgang Streeck, the Maverick German Thinker Explaining Our World
- New York Times, Nov. 28, 2024
- The Violent Exhaustion of Liberal Democracy
- Interview with Wendy Brown; Boston Review, Oct. 21, 2024
- Why Socialist Susan Neiman Says 'Woke-ism' Is Not Leftist
- CBC Radio, Apr. 12, 2023
- The Case Against Judicial Review
- by Ryan Cooper; The American Prospect, Jul. 11, 2022
- Fundamentals of Piano Practice
- Online ebook
- An Unlikely Meditation on Modern Happiness: Rereading Kierkegaard’s “Fear and Trembling”
- by Ryan Kemp; The Hedgehog Review, Feb. 3, 2022
- How to Fix Social Media
- by Nicholas Carr; The New Atlantis, Fall 2021
- How much sleep is enough? Study says focus on consistency, too.
- by Pam Moore; Washington Post, Apr. 30, 2021
- In Praise of Idleness
- by Bertrand Russell; Harper's, Oct. 1932
- Japan Dome House
- The Misfit Who Built the IBM PC
- by Gareth Edwards, Jun. 5, 2024
- Review: "Spinoza's Religion"
- by Clare Carlisle; Prospect Magazine
- Why is walking so good for the brain? Blame it on the "spontaneous fluctuations"
- by Thomas Nail; Salon.com, Aug. 28, 2021
- Whose Freedom Counts? Anti-lockdown protesters are twisting the idea of liberty.
- by Dahlia Lithwick; Slate, May 7, 2020
- Why Musicians Need Philosophy
- by Roger Scruton; Future Symphony Institute
- Why Standard Time is better
- by Michael Herf; Medium
- I still love Kierkegaard
- by Julian Baggini; Aeon Magazine, May 6, 2013
- Close the Book. Recall. Write It Down
- The Chronicle, May 1, 2009
- When meditation turns toxic: the woman exposing spiritual sexism
- The Guardian, Dec. 8, 2021
