David Rieff

Javier Milei claims to speak to his dead pet through a medium. He has proposed allowing organs to be bought and sold on the free market. And yeah, that hair.

Lula won because the left and the center feared a second term for the extremist Jair Bolsonaro. But the right won Congress and the governorships. Sound like any place you know?

The candidate of the left has establishment backing for Sunday’s vote. But below the level of the presidency, signs are more ominous.

The official U.S. policy is ambiguous and incoherent. Biden spoke the truth—but it’s a truth with some ominous implications.

Putin’s aggression is only part of the grim story of why democracy is in retreat.

An attack would be illegal and ineffective. It wouldn't satisfy hawkish critics, either.

A symposium