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Longreads Best of 2017: Political Writing

by Longreads December 26, 2017October 19, 2022

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in political writing.

Posted inEditor's Pick

How America Lost Its Identity

by michelleweber February 6, 2017October 19, 2022

From the outside looking in: reporter Holger Stark, who spent the past four years as Der Spiegel’s Washington correspondent, asks “What led this once mighty nation into decline?”

Posted inEditor's Pick

America’s New Opposition

by michelleweber February 3, 2017October 19, 2022

From Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter, the left has been reborn. Can it find a way to harness the populist uprising that brought Trump to power?

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Quotes

Finding the Limit of a Nation of Laws: Integrity, or the Lack Thereof

by michelleweber January 31, 2017October 19, 2022

This David Frum piece in The Atlantic is a roadmap to Trump’s likeliest path to authoritarianism and self-enrichment — and therefore also a guide to what Americans of conscience need to do to protect democracy.

Posted inEditor's Pick

How to Build an Autocracy

by michelleweber January 31, 2017October 19, 2022

The preconditions are present in the U.S. today. Here’s the playbook Donald Trump could use to set the country down a path toward illiberalism.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

President Trump, Three Days On: The Sound and the Fury

by michelleweber January 24, 2017October 19, 2022

This story in the Washington Post — based on interviews with almost a dozen senior White House officials and and Trump advisors — paints a picture of an uneasy administration trying to stay in orbit around its hyper-sensitive leader and his insider cabal.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The First Days Inside Trump’s White House: Fury, Tumult and a Reboot

by michelleweber January 24, 2017October 19, 2022

“At the center, as always, is Trump himself, whose ascent to the White House seems to have only heightened his acute sensitivity to criticism.”

Posted inNonfiction

Longreads Best of 2016: Political Analysis

by Longreads December 19, 2016October 20, 2022

We asked a few writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here, the best in political analysis.

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