Indonesia Turns Right
Indonesia’s new president has a gruesome track record of human rights violations and hostility to democracy. But a slick campaign successfully presented him as a harmless grandpa.
18497 Articles by: Enver Motala
Enver Motala is an associate of the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation (CERT) at the University of Johannesburg and of the Centre for Integrated Post-School Education and Training at the Nelson Mandela University.
Soldiers of Fortune
In the 1970s, American mercenaries traveled to Angola and Rhodesia, seized by racist, anti-communist dreams and delusions of grandeur.
Their International Brigades
At the height of the Rhodesian Bush War, American mercenaries advertised their forces in the magazine Soldier of Fortune.
Labor Lives to Fight Another Day
When and where organized labor’s been on the move.
The Gender Polarization of US Politics
Young women overwhelmingly support Kamala Harris.
Manifesto Destiny
“National Conservatism: A Statement of Principles” contains ten guiding ideals for the New Right.
Five Books to Understand the Right
We asked scholar Dylan Riley what to read about our political foes.
Guess Who?
The political singularity consumes us all.
We Went to NatCon
At this summer’s National Conservatism Conference, reactionaries — many of whom were close to or worked within the Trump administration — felt the wind was at their backs.
Conversations With Frenemies
Compact’s Sohrab Ahmari is among a group of populists who see a home in a changing Republican Party. We asked him for his perspective on the November election and what comes next.
Atavist Judges
Trump’s appointees hold us all in contempt.
Tell Us What You Really Think
Before J. D. Vance became a booster for Trump, he was a brutal critic.
The Quiet Death of National Review
With the rise of MAGA in the ranks of the GOP, the Right no longer needs a veneer of intellectualism. It no longer needs National Review.
Queens of Conservatism
Few women in the GOP wield real power, but in Europe, women have emerged as some of the far right’s most prominent leaders.
The Original Trump Towers
The Trump family fortune is partly built on postwar New York’s Mitchell-Lama affordable housing program.
Tech Turncoats
Elon Musk isn’t the only Silicon Valley somebody to leave the Dems in the dust.
America’s Darkest Study Abroad Program
Since 9/11, US law enforcement has sent thousands of officers and millions of dollars to Israel, returning with new surveillance technologies and violent policing tactics to try out on American streets.
The Political Street Fighters of Israeli Football
What a rivalry between a powerhouse’s racist hooligans and an idealistic fan-owned club says about who owns the future of Israeli politics.
MAGA’s Europe Correspondent
Eva Vlaardingerbroek is not only pushing Holland rightward. She’s capturing the imagination of reactionaries around the world.
The Nutty ’90s
John Ganz’s When the Clock Broke offers a tour of ’90s politics, from Klansmen strangled on talk shows to a drugged-up George H. W. Bush running for office.