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A crisis is unfolding before our eyes—and also in our heads.

Thinking via historical analogy has become the preferred way to confront our anxieties.

No other president has made his time in office so nakedly about himself and his legacy.

Comparing two leaders, two millennia apart.

It’s Carl Schmitt’s world, and we’re all just living in it.

Liberal critics charge Trump with creating a cult of personality not unlike Mao Zedong’s.

It took a decade for the U.S. economy to recover from Nixon. This time could be worse.

Jimmy Carter made foreign policy feel moral again, but that era might be over.

In an era defined by vanity, the U.S. president outdoes all his populist peers.

Presidents of both parties have relied on expansive authority to achieve their goals.

Inside life in the city five years after its national security law went into effect.

Trump’s approach to Iran shows that America’s crisis of manhood has hit the global stage.

Decades of fighting have led to what the United Nations has called “one of the most protracted, complex, serious humanitarian crises on Earth.”

A progressive candidate’s primary win is causing panic among the city’s upper classes.

One of the most vicious, violent, and nihilistic works of entertainment ever made is also truly the work of an auteur.