A Democracy, If You Can Keep It
James TraubInstead of whining about the crisis of democracy, I explore real solutions to it.
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The UN Isn't Quite Dead
(For its special issue, “The End Of. . .”, Foreign Policy asked me to write an essay about the UN. Below is the link, and then the piece itself.)
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/15/united-nations-obituary-gaza-ukraine-trump/?utm_content=...
Is Trump Mussolini?
How grave is our crisis? Former minority and majority leader Richard Gephardt and former Colorado Senator and Congressman Timothy Wirth, two Democratic legislators from the long-ago era when reasonable figures from both parties argued over...
The Basketball Sublime
Every once in a very great while sport attains the level of myth. Bobby Thomson’s 1951 “Shot Heard ‘Round The World.” The U.S. Olympic hockey team’s 1980 “Miracle On Ice.” Seabiscuit’s victory over War Admiral in the 1938 Pimlico Stakes. It...
Will AI Be Our Servant--Or Our Master?
Pope Leo chose his name in order to celebrate the legacy of Leo XIII, known above all for Rerum Novarum, or “new things,” the 1891 encyclical on the condition of workers in the industrial economy. This Leo has now issued his own encyclical...
Zero-Sum Nation
Throughout the Obama years and into Trump 1.0 I taught a class at NYU whose subject, under various titles, was whether the United States was more a force for good or for ill in the world. Most of my students–American, Emirati, other–were su...
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