Tag: trump

• Future fatigue

  September 15, 2020

  Winter is coming: a cold, northern, long and suspenseful season. Six months from now the world will be more pessimistic, tired of the overwhelming sentiment of defeat against the unreasonable forces… more ›

• Mark Zuckerberg Is the Most Powerful Unelected Man in America

  September 6, 2020

  Mark’s influence is staggering, far beyond that of anyone else in the private sector or in government. He controls three core communications platforms — Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — that billions… more ›

• The Wikipedia War That Shows How Ugly This Election Will Be

  August 15, 2020

  An editing battle over Kamala Harris’s race is a sign of what’s to come. At 4:14 p.m. Delaware time Tuesday, Joe Biden’s campaign sent out a mass text message announcing… more ›

• [Report] Trumpism After Trump, by Thomas Meaney : Harper’s Magazine

  August 9, 2020

  day one The course of true nationalism never did run smooth.—Ernest Gellner The city was not beautiful; no one made that claim for it. At the height of summer, people… more ›

• Why Ta-Nehisi Coates is hopeful

  June 27, 2020

  The first question I asked Ta-Nehisi Coates during our recent conversation on The Ezra Klein Show was broad: What does he see right now, as he looks out at the… more ›

• How Facebook Works for Trump

  April 19, 2020

  Donald Trump won the presidency by using the social network’s advertising machinery in exactly the way the company wanted. He’s poised to do it again. Updated on April 18 at… more ›

• One year inside Trump’s monumental Facebook campaign

  January 30, 2020

  A Guardian investigation of 218,100 ads reveals how the campaign’s sophisticated social media machine targets conservative voters by in San Francisco As the Democratic candidates for president spent 2019 battling… more ›

• William Barr, Trump’s Sword and Shield

  January 14, 2020

  Last October, Attorney General William Barr appeared at Notre Dame Law School to make a case for ideological warfare. Before an assembly of students and faculty, Barr claimed that the… more ›

• How Your Phone Betrays Democracy

  December 25, 2019

  In footage from drones hovering above, the nighttime streets of Hong Kong look almost incandescent, a constellation of tens of thousands of cellphone flashlights, swaying in unison. Each twinkle is… more ›

• Trump Is Waging War on America’s Diplomats

  December 3, 2019

  Last year, just before Halloween, Lewis Lukens, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. https://www.gq.com/story/trump-is-waging-war-on-american-diplomats more ›