Archive - Public Sphere

Present at the Destruction

How to make sense of the Musk power grab

Feb 3 •

January 2025

Take Trump's Threats Against Greenland Seriously

Why did Denmark's prime minister visit 3 European capitals in a day?

Jan 31 •

Trump Brings Back an Old Idea: Imperialism

Political theorist Hannah Arendt warned that imperialism was an element of totalitarianism. What does it mean here?

Jan 25 •

What is an Oligarchy?

How 1990s Russia compares to 2020s America

Jan 18 •

Zuckerberg's Rule Change Looks Like It Will 'Flood the Zone'

Meta is taking a page out of Russian propaganda and Steve Bannon

Jan 15 •

Trump's Threats Against Greenland and Panama Are Bad News For Ukraine

It's not 'Trump being Trump.' It's about normalizing land grabs.

Jan 7 •

December 2024

Elon Musk's Far-Right Global Counterrevolution

The tech mogul's endorsement of the German far-right is part of a global trend

Dec 22, 2024 •

7 Books of the Year 2024

If you don't want to read the news, read a book

Dec 15, 2024 •

How Tulsi Gabbard Sees Syria, Ukraine, and Trump

Trump's intelligence director pick has a history of parroting propaganda from Assad and Putin

Dec 11, 2024 •

Dictator For a Day

Autocracy is not in lived memory for (most) Americans. Can we avoid it?

Dec 8, 2024 •

'The More Police Brutality We See, The Angrier We Get': Georgian Protests Gather Momentum

The specter of Belarus lingers over the country of the country which like Ukraine, borders Russia and the Black Sea

Dec 3, 2024 •

November 2024

Q&A: A Genocide Scholar Traces Russia's 'Intent' To Destroy Ukraine

Professor Eugene Finkel had a student who turned out to be a Russian spy. Writing a book on Russian violence was his way to 'fight back.'

Nov 24, 2024 •

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