Blogs about Politics

Domestic workers in the Gulf typically face a double bind: as a foreign worker, you are governed by kafala laws, while as a female, you are governed by the male guardianship system. Photo by Abdullah …

Adjusting to new political realities is sometimes difficult. Where this blog is concerned, one of those is being part of a dwindling bunch who are interested in and will be keeping tabs on the Tories. …

This weekend’s escapist and light-hearted superhero post here at Balladeer’s Blog presents my SECOND look at the adventures of the Clock. PART ONE examined his November 1936-January 1939 stories, so STILL before Batman debuted in …

I’ve published a new academic article in Economic and Political Weekly on Gandhi’s attempt to recover the varna system so as to generate time for spiritual and civic activity and produce an Indian subject capable …

Tense, emotional climate science-fiction that doesn’t quite come together by Kevin Fox, Jr. This piece was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, the film being covered …

Almost exactly six months ago I blogged in The Coming Storm about how 2024 looked like a "somewhat disruptive" year. Hoo, boy! Let's recap point by point from that piece. Taiwan was first on 13th …

James York is a member of the Beaconsfield Conservative Association and a policymaker in the insurance industry. In Julia Donaldson’s lovely story, a small snail decides to leave its community rock for a worldly adventure …

Today, the Unit published Monitor 87, providing analysis of constitutional events over the last four months. This post by Meg Russell and Alan Renwick also serves as the issue’s lead article. It discusses the Labour …

When he was deployed in Iraq and a student at Yale Law School, J.D. Vance occasionally blogged. “It’s like a diary,” he wrote, “only far more masculine.” Here’s what I learned about Vance from his …

Patrick Iber will join Natasha Lewis as co-editor of Dissent.

Harris Meets with Netanyahu As expected, Kamala Harris had a chat with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday. She then held a press conference to review what was discussed. By the end of the day, Netanyahu …

The past stalks you like a wolf. And then you have to face it. Berlin 🛫 Charlottesville 🚗 Fairfield, CT I’ve spent a lot of this year reckoning with the past. There’s a part of …

An interview with The Ink, about where we are, how we got here and where we need to go. George Monbiot, interviewed by The Ink, 9th July 2024 TI: Can you walk us through how …

I've talked a lot about what has gone wrong both with academia and journalism in recent decades. In recent weeks, I have run across two spectacular examples--one from each of those professions--that really make my …

I’m continuing mostly to write at my drafts blog. Below you’ll find excerpts of posts I’ve written there during May 2024. Please free free to use the comments of this post, or e-mail, to stay …

From The Guardian Among many other challenges in dealing with the failure of urban policy in Australia, the Minns (NSW state) government is faced with the task of renegotiating, or repudiating, the disastrous set of …

The violent culture Trump promoted is now beatifying him as its most famous victim. The iconography of his fist-pump and bloodied face immediately became the image he had waited for all his life, as – …

It was quite a surprise when I noticed last week that we had posted so many articles over 13 years. The 20,000 articles include over 700 of my own. A selection of these, about 100, …

You may have noticed I left something out in that last post about Andreesen and Horowitz — their political vision is focused on crypto, AI, and a tax policy they like better. I said nothing …

Between an attempted assassination, Trump picking his VP, four days of sickening speeches at Republican National Convention, and the continued dogpiling of our very accomplished, effective president, I’m pretty tired of politics at this moment …