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Zack Beauchamp ([email protected])
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Senior Correspondent at Vox covering the crisis of global democracy. Author of The Reactionary Spirit, a book on that topic — available for purchase now!
I'm really excited to announce that I have written my first book! THE REACTIONARY SPIRIT, coming next year from @public_affairs, explains why so many long-stable democracies are in danger today. It's a crisis I trace back to a conflict at the heart of democracy itself.
get this old world shit out of here lmaoooo
I think if your family has hundreds of years of history in America you are frankly more American than somebody who migrated to America in 2015.
As a reporter covering comparative democratic decline for a decade. I think we've just seen the two most dangerous signs in the US so far: 1) Successful attacks on media, specifically cowing CBS and defunding NPR 2) Supreme Court deference on executive power grabs
The Gaza war has led the Israeli government to unleash its worst impulses in nearly every sector
🚨Israel has stripped the Palestinian-run Hebron municipality of its administrative powers over the Ibrahimi Mosque, handing it over to the Kiryat Arba settlement council. The 4th holiest mosque in Islam is now in the hands of Israeli settlers. Eyes on Al Aqsa for what comes next
People are getting the political stakes of the Epstein story wrong. There's virtually no chance of a "MAGA rebellion" against Trump that costs him significant base support. But there's a real chance he alienates disaffected, low-info swing voters — the Rogan types.
Wrong. We can see the effects of tariffs on prices pretty clearly. Compare the change in prices across tariff-affected and unaffected industries. The reason we aren't seeing aggregate effects is the Federal Reserve is tightening monetary policy to keep prices stable.
It's almost like the economics profession doesn't fully understand tariffs
In the late 2000s and early 2010s, it felt like the mashup would be one of the defining millennial contributions to music. But as far as I can tell, Girl Talk style music has just ceased to exist as a new thing
Today, the Israeli Knesset voted on whether to impeach me from Parliament. And with great pride, I can say: the fascists failed. They failed for one reason: you, the people. They tried to silence us, but our voices were louder. Palestinians and Jews, from every corner of…
As someone who has real concerns about anti-Semitism on the left, I feel nothing but contempt for the smear campaign against Zohran Mamdani. There is no evidence against him. His enemies are trivializing a profoundly serious issue to win power and cover for Israel's far-right.
It's going to be a lot harder for Trump to turn ICE into an effective secret police force than people think
My new feature looks at why two prominent critics of liberalism, @SohrabAhmari and @samuelmoyn, are rethinking their previous critiques
Good piece: Liberalism is worth saving. Just ask its critics. | Vox vox.com/politics/41811…