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The Bangladesh Nationalist Party claims victory in the country’s first parliamentary elections since its 2024 Generation Z-led uprising
The historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Donald Trump and “autocratic backfire.”
I retired from the University of Notre Dame at the end of 2025. More accurately, I left. After twenty years on the faculty, I could no longer do Notre. The post Why I’m Done with Notre Dame appeared first on First Things
The cliché holds that China plans in decades while America plans in election cycles. Increasingly, though, our thinking seems to stop even sooner—around the length of a crop cycle. Not as an agricultural policy, but as a governing instinct. Soybeans are a solid proxy for how the United States deals with China: small, transactional, immediately […] The post Don’t Trade Away America for Some Soybeans appeared first on The American Conservative
The benefits of an expedited nuclear reactor approval process are coming closer to fruition
I've finished reading the entire tariff decision, and editing it down for the Barnett/Blackman casebook
Brian Grazer (@BrianGrazer) is an Academy Award-winning producer and New York Times bestselling author (A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life, with Charles Fishman) who has been making movies and television programs for more than 25 years. Grazer and his longtime friend and business partner Ron Howard began their collaboration in 1985 on the hit comedies Nightshift and Splash, and in 1986 they founded Imagine Entertainment. In 2002, Grazer won an Oscar for Best Picture for A Beautiful M...
The Board of Peace might be destined to fail, but it still threatens to undermine an international system in which the U.S. was once the linchpin
Israel’s war in Gaza has caused high numbers of maternal and neonatal deaths, say two reports