The extent to which Trump has faded from the electoral conversation is striking. newrepublic.com/article/168265…

Ersatz social media platforms like Parler and Truth Social can’t offer right wingers the thrill of triggering the libs if none of them will sign up. newrepublic.com/article/168214…

William MacAskill’s new book “What We Owe the Future” rejects the scientific consensus that we have roughly a decade left to initiate the changes needed to preserve a living planet capable of supporting a complex civilization. newrepublic.com/article/168047…

Sooner or later, the anti-interventionist impulses spreading around the Republican Party will prevail. And the result may be the most significant transformation of U.S. foreign policy in decades, Jordan Michael Smith writes. newrepublic.com/article/168045…

Democrats need to do a lot less accepting of reality and more trying to change it. newrepublic.com/article/168265…

The GOP can’t be compelled to do the right thing, and many in the party actively want Russia to win the war. Democrats may need to act now to secure aid to Ukraine before the America First contingent in Congress grows. newrepublic.com/article/168262…

There are good and growing reasons to be wary of longtermism. Even William MacAskill—one of its most prominent boosters—once understood them well. newrepublic.com/article/168047…

The new voting bill passed by the D.C. city council is the wrong solution to the right problem. newrepublic.com/article/168274…

According to longtermist philosopher Nick Bostrom, reducing the possibility of human extinction to near-zero is worth a billion times more than one billion human lives. newrepublic.com/article/168047…

Democrats might have done well to make Trump more of an issue this election, given that a majority of independents don’t want him to run in 2024. newrepublic.com/article/168265…

Ersatz social media platforms like Parler and Truth Social can’t offer right wingers the thrill of triggering the libs if none of them will sign up. newrepublic.com/article/168214…

The expansive scope of D.C.’s non-citizen voting bill undercuts its proponents’ own arguments on letting a community’s established non-citizen residents have a voice in local governance, writes Matt Ford. newrepublic.com/article/168274…

If GOP support for multilateral organizations such as the United Nations and NATO finally collapses, the era of bipartisan liberal internationalism that has remained intact since the onset of the Cold War may come to an end. newrepublic.com/article/168045…

The GOP currently does not have the votes to block aid to Ukraine, but Democrats need to plan for a near future in which it might, Alex Shephard writes. newrepublic.com/article/168262…

Just as the war on drugs and the war on crime were in effect wars on the poor and people of color, L.A. City Council has waged a war on tenants with the same results, writes tracy rosenthal. newrepublic.com/article/168195…

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China’s replacement of the USSR as conservatives’ top enemy could lead Republicans to abandon their still-delicate concerns about fiscal responsibility and military misadventures to embrace aggressive policies in Asia. newrepublic.com/article/168045…

Kari Lake’s specific ties with election deniers bring her directly into Christian nationalist circles. newrepublic.com/article/168212…