Álvaro Guzmán Bastida is a Spanish writer and filmmaker pursuing an MFA in screenwriting and directing at Columbia University, where he also earned master’s degrees in journalism and politics and government.

01.25.2026

Greg Grandin

Trump’s New National Security Memo Is 30 Pages of Insanity

Released just before Christmas, Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy memo is a bizarre and frightening manifesto for MAGA’s second term. To help make sense of the document, Jacobin turned to Latin American historian Greg Grandin.