Patricia Evangelista is a trauma journalist and former investigative reporter for the Philippine news company Rappler. She has received the Kate Webb Prize for exceptional journalism in dangerous conditions. Recently, she authored the book Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country. Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon Make a one-time Donation to... Continue Reading →
Cenk Uygur is Running an Unorthodox Campaign for President
Cenk Uygur is a host of the show The Young Turks and the founder, president, and CEO of its parent company TYT. He is a Democratic Party candidate for President of the United States and the author of Justice Is Coming: How Progressives Are Going to Take Over the Country and America Is Going to... Continue Reading →
Shadi Hamid on Democracy, Liberalism, and the Middle East
Shadi Hamid is a columnist and member of the Editorial Board at The Washington Post. He is also a research professor of Islamic studies at Fuller Seminary and the co-host of the podcast Wisdom of Crowds. His most recent book is The Problem of Democracy: America, the Middle East, and the Rise and Fall of an... Continue Reading →
Branko Milanovic on Different Visions of Inequality
Branko Milanovic is a Research Professor at the City University of New York and a Senior Scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality. He served as the lead economist in the World Bank’s Research Department for almost 20 years. His most recent book is Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End... Continue Reading →
Defining Democracy: The Important Distinction Between “Morality” and “Ethics”
Public servants must be able to construct a firewall between their deeply-held private beliefs and their ideas about public policy. By Logan Williams In October 2016, Hillary Rodham Clinton came under fire for the content of a paid speech that she had given, the original draft of which had been attained and released by WikiLeaks.... Continue Reading →
Yascha Mounk Warns Against a Misguided New Ideology
Yascha Mounk is a Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University. He’s a writer for The Atlantic, founder of the online magazine Persuassion, and host of the podcast The Good Fight. He is the author of The People vs Democracy, The Great Experiment, and The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and... Continue Reading →
Behind the Facade: The Dark Money Game of No Labels
By Tiffany Muller When political operative Nancy Jacobson founded the group No Labels in 2010, it purported to speak for America’s “commonsense majority.” On its website—devoid of typical partisan red and blue tones—No Labels says it welcomes the “politically homeless,” but instead, they are advancing the interests of their ultra-rich backers. No Labels is setting... Continue Reading →