Category: Current Archives

At this point there is no doubt as to whether we are having an authoritarian moment. We are — but we don’t yet know how long it might last or how exactly we will exit from its grip. This week we glimpsed what may be the beginnings of a pathway out, with the historic election […]

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Historians (if they exist in the future and any records of this period survive) will note this month as one where the United States slipped fully into authoritarianism. Incompetence, luck, and real leadership may yet intervene, but we have already crossed several “red lines” warned about by experts. At the TED conference this past week […]

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As the world continues to digest Donald Trump’s haphazard announcement of wide-ranging tariffs that threaten to upend the global economy, reshape capital markets, and decimate individual retirement accounts, one vulnerability is becoming clear: the MAGA coalition is not united, and contains exploitable fault lines. Voices as diverse as Mike Pence and Elon Musk have expressed […]

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When Elon Musk formed Space Exploration Corporation in 2002, he based the company in El Segundo, California — an area rich with aerospace and defense contractor talent. That choice proved to be fateful, as it put him on a path to collaborate closely with Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA District 48), the Congressman who would go […]

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On February 5, America 2.0 broke news of two memos created by an anonymous group of authors formerly connected to the Neoreactionary or “Dark Enlightenment” movement. Since then, they have created a stir and have been picked up by a variety of outlets, most immediately by Byline Times. Other outlets have also amplified the documents substantially, while making inaccurate […]

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