Sublime

In his letter to The Harvard Crimson, Albizu expressed the hope that Puerto Rico might gain independence and become like Cuba. Albizu’s hope hinged, above all, on one figure, Woodrow Wilson, elected president in 1912. A Southern Democrat, Wilson was a far cry from the three Republican imperialists who had preceded him: William McKinley, Teddy

a database, named Project Alamo, with profiles of over 220 million people in America. It charted all sorts of online and offline behavior, including gun registration, voter registration, credit card and shopping histories, what websites they visit, what car they drive, where they live, and the last time they voted.

Once the revolution of exploitation is under way, statesmanship and craftsmanship are gradually replaced by salesmanship.

a decade after the passage of the Affordable Care Act.[4]

Call the first narrative Free America. In the past half century it’s been the most politically powerful of the four. Free America draws on libertarian ideas, which it installs in the high-powered engine of consumer capitalism. The freedom it champions is very different from Tocqueville’s art of self-government. It’s personal freedom, without other

These incidents of “political correctness,” amplified by right-wing media, whipped up hatred of elites out in Real America. The culture wars raged on, as bloody-minded and durable as the Thirty Years’ War, a full-employment program for pundits of every type. Some worried about a generation of ultra-sensitive children coddled by ultra-indulgent

Republicans have spent decades demonizing government, and they have largely won the argument. The dominant belief is that anything that can be outsourced or privatized should be. Government is bloated. The private sector is efficient.

The Offshoring and Deindustrialization Era defined U.S. economic policy from 1979 to 2001, reshaping global commerce and local economies alike. A critical milestone during this period was China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001, which accelerated the United States’ transition from a production-based economy to a consumption-driven

His farewell to a species turning from animal into data.