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January 15, 2025
Clarke draws from the CBC’s legacy of strong Black women leaders.
January 14, 2025
How Michael Waltz might guide White House foreign policy
What Waltz’s 2014 memoir tells us about Trump’s next national security advisor.
January 10, 2025
Good to Know: Sovereign debt
Sovereign borrowing is central to what governments do – but increasingly costly, even for wealthy democracies.
January 9, 2025
Trump still wants to buy Greenland. He’s making a dangerous mistake.
Trump doesn’t seem to understand that nations don’t buy and sell territory any more.
January 8, 2025
How Jair Bolsonaro plotted to steal Brazil’s 2022 election
Brazil’s democracy faced a major test, according to the police report on this coup attempt.
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Sorry, Elon, it’s not so easy to run a government like a business
From Taft to Reagan to Clinton, presidents have tried to cut government spending, and trim the ranks.
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On foreign policy, has Donald Trump become predictable?
The candidate who wanted to be “the madman” has a pretty clear agenda.
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Poll results depend on pollster choices as much as voters’ decisions
Simple changes in how to weight a single poll can move the Harris-Trump margin 8 points.
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Anti-Haitian rhetoric is more than a 2024 GOP campaign stunt
Framing Haitians as a “threat” goes far beyond racism. And America has been doing this for two centuries.
The sale of U.S. Steel is blocked.
John Sides and Michael Tesler talk about what to expect leading up to the Nov. 5 vote.
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January 7, 2025
Can democracy solve the climate crisis?
Multiple scholars weigh in, evaluating democratic flexibility vs. authoritarian control.
January 6, 2025
2024’s big surprises in Middle Eastern politics
Nasrallah’s end, Netanyahu’s warrant, and Assad’s fall.
January 3, 2025
Good to Know: The public is a thermostat
Why there is a never-ending cycle of governments doing something and the public wanting the opposite.
December 30, 2024
How Trump’s strategy echoes Jim Crow-era tactics
What W.E.B. Du Bois and “Wages of Whiteness” can teach us about the 2024 election.
December 27, 2024
Good Authority’s top 10 posts of 2024
Here is what got the most attention from readers.
December 23, 2024
ECOWAS announced a timeline for its three departing members
Why Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger plan to exit the African bloc – and what happens now.
December 23, 2024
Movies that teach us about war – and the societies that wage it ▶️
Each of these films has a powerful message about how past wars shape our current views of the world.
December 20, 2024
Good to Know: How tariffs work
The idea of tariffs as a tax revenue stream seems easy to understand. Their political consequences are less so.
A closer look at the Gaza casualty data
Casualty counts can be a political tool – and how we report the data has real consequences.
Trump might want to know about the toxic nuclear waste buried in Greenland
Melting ice will expose waste that has been locked in for decades.
Why Trump administration officials try so hard to flatter him
Flattery can work — and not just in authoritarian regimes.
When the White House changes hands, it is a dangerous time in foreign policy
The rest of the world is holding its breath.