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Trump and the Future of English
John McWhorter

The President’s language usage reflects less how we will use language than ways that we actually already do.

 Published: 2018-04-23 11:20:32
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Pushing Back
Countering a Kleptocratic Kremlin
Larry Diamond

We must remember that predatory authoritarianism is not stamped into the Russian DNA.

 Published: 2018-04-20 12:19:52
 
Lessons from California
The Question of Borders
Bruce E. Cain

Immigration today raises many of the same issues that were debated in the 1980s and 1990s—and the Golden State is once again at the heart of the matter.

 Published: 2018-04-18 10:27:24
 
Cart Before the Horse
Misdiagnosing the Western Crisis
Dalibor Rohac

Trump, fake news, and Russian belligerence are symptoms of the West’s disease, not its causes.

 Published: 2018-04-16 12:29:19
 
Better Angels
America’s Sign Language
David Blankenhorn

Why looking at our signs is looking at us.

 Published: 2018-04-11 11:49:45
 
Print & Pixels
The King of Masks
Martha Bayles

How the “Xi change” in China is causing an invisible earthquake.

 Published: 2018-04-09 10:23:07
 
April Fools
Donald Trump’s Not-So-Grand Strategy
Josef Joffe

The President committed a double folly this week: starting a trade war against China while pleasing Russia and Iran with a promised pull-out from Syria.

 Published: 2018-04-06 12:12:52
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If we misuse terms, our thinking becomes muddled. Take the suddenly ubiquitous phrase: “new Cold War.”

 Published: Apr 20, 2018
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