
Trump Has a Thin Cultural Vision of the Future
On art and culture, Donald Trump and the movement behind him are offering a highly circumscribed vision of the future in comparison to far-right movements of the past.

On art and culture, Donald Trump and the movement behind him are offering a highly circumscribed vision of the future in comparison to far-right movements of the past.

Digital technology was sold as a liberating tool that could free individuals from state power. Yet the state security apparatus always had a different view — and now it’s taking back control of its own creation.

A significant portion of the abundance movement views unions as a barrier that needs to be overcome in the name of efficiency.

We should be slashing emissions and climate-proofing our cities. Instead, Republicans are turning up the carbon spew and stripping away heat protections — effectively condemning the poor to die under rising temperatures.

Since 2024, a growing rift has emerged in the Democratic Party over whether to better coordinate with billionaire-backed political networks to match Republicans. Now this clash between populists and party elites is no longer quiet.

This month’s “Unite the Kingdom” march was the biggest far-right rally in British history. Sponsored by Elon Musk, it seeks not just to install Nigel Farage in government but to build a mass street movement.

Centrist Democrats like Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom seem to think the best way to disparage Donald Trump is to highlight his departures from free-market orthodoxy. Good luck with that.

Most major corporations — from airlines to social media platforms — now aspire to become unregulated banks. Bankification today accounts for the highest profit margins in the US economy, crippling productive capacity and setting the stage for the next crash.

In 2018, #AbolishICE was everywhere. Seven years later, the agency is bigger than ever, yet the slogan’s champions are nowhere to be found.

The cordial meeting between Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani wasn’t as strange as it looked; both reject the myth of a self-regulating market. The difference is that Trump uses the state to shore up wealth, Mamdani to expand rights and public provision.

Some of the most over-the-top apartments in New York City are owned — and left empty — by überwealthy foreign nationals.

How the socialist left and the anti-Trump Resistance are slowly but surely learning to work together.

Steve Bannon’s whole pitch is that he’s leading a movement against a decadent, borderless elite. Except according to newly released messages and emails, that movement has been heavily reliant on the most decadent, borderless elite of all: Jeffrey Epstein.

A former X executive behind Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot, now serving as US Patent Office chief AI officer, has received a “highly unusual” carveout that allows him to retain company shares while influencing AI policy.

Both Donald Trump and El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele style themselves successful businessmen with an affinity for social media, cryptocurrency, and criminalizing poor Salvadorans. And each stands to gain from the relationship with the other.

As the US-Israeli war machine embarks on a new adventure in Iran, it’s worth examining one of the key states facilitating this aggression. The United Arab Emirates has pioneered a militarized corporation-state at the center of our international disorder.

Our male protagonists — or perhaps men more broadly — are searching for meaning, solace, or glory anywhere but in the workplace. The trend represents a collective ambiguity about the point of work.
We surveyed over a thousand young people across the anglophone world to get a sense of their views on politics and culture.

Republican Senator Bernie Moreno, a scion of Colombia’s right-wing political and business elite, is stoking a dangerous conflict between Donald Trump and Colombia’s government. His motivations derive from both veiled familial interests and broad class ones.

We are bumbling toward an AI-enabled, nuclear-curious World War III. A new book urges us to get over antiwar protest burnout and cynicism and to rebuild the long-dormant Cold War movement to ban the bomb.