Behind the News – November 27, 2025

Republicans: how did they go from Eisenhower to Trump?

Sudan, and Japan’s new PM

Models of municipal socialism • Albania, a personal view of history

Why did the tech bros move right? • a political tour d’horizon of South America

The Zoomer tech bros • the new breed of arms makers

Israel on the brink • the Trump education agenda

Fundraising special: Bill Buckley revisited; China, the US, and the world

Fundraising special: politics of public monuments revisited, Trump’s Gaza “peace plan”

Fundraising special: what’s with all these diplomatic recognitions of Palestine?

Eugenics, neoliberal style • stablecoins, and the Trump–UAE deal

Tech transhumanism, fiscal politics of NYC

Riots in Indonesia, DSA’s pedigree

Bill Buckley: his life and thought

The flaws of American democracy, the evolution of upper-class men’s dress

Better futures: planning the economy, building cooperatives

Don’t go anti-woke, fissures around Israel on the right

Fundraiser special: cops and AI

Fundraising special: Trump’s America in the world—a tour d’horizon

Health cuts, Trump’s trade policy