This by @jamellebouie.net is superb on equality as a metaphysical category and a political one www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...

In today's edition of the FT Swamp Notes newsletter, @joemillerjr.ft.com and I discuss how AI money is shaping America's elections as.ft.com/r/37dbccfa-a...

In today's edition of the FT Swamp Notes newsletter, @edwardluce.bsky.social and I agree to differ on the meaning of DSA's clean sweep in NYC on Tuesday as.ft.com/r/e7208e5a-7...

Why is getting to a World Cup game so hard, asks Greg Meyer, who tried cycling to the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey as.ft.com/r/cc87a362-7...

In today's edition of the FT's Swamp Notes newsletter, @sohrabahmari.bsky.social and I discuss the GOP, the labour unions and the future of 'pro-worker conservatism' as.ft.com/r/16de40f0-a...

I wrote about @grahamformaine.bsky.social and the politics of authenticity in today's edition of the FT Swamp Notes newsletter, riffing on an excellent @newyorker.com piece by @jonallsop.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/a8276b0e-9...

In today's edition of the FT Swamp Notes newsletter, @ranaforoohar.bsky.social and I discuss class war in America and the fortunes of the Democrats as.ft.com/r/3471259b-8...

I wrote about cycling and the narcissism of minor differences as.ft.com/r/2c2c422d-7...

"“America First” died in Operation Epic Fury. Real median wages are falling. Most of America is turned off by ICE’s shock troop tactics. All that’s left is Trump’s grand homage to himself and his pocket book." My Swamp notes with @jderbyshire.ft.com Free to read. as.ft.com/r/2b1aa8a8-8...

"California’s Democratic field us monotonous and complacent. If this is the best the party can muster, perhaps it deserves a shock." My Swamp Notes with Richard Waters. Free to read. as.ft.com/r/f8f9f8d0-4...

Siona Jenkins on the political economy of grocery shopping in NYC as.ft.com/r/edfca8c2-9...

In today's edition of the FT"s Swamp Notes newsletter, @ranaforoohar.bsky.social and I discuss the consequences of the gutting of the Voting Rights Act as.ft.com/r/feca7f30-1...

In today's edition of the FT"s Swamp Notes newsletter, @ranaforoohar.bsky.social and I discuss the consequences of the gutting of the Voting Rights Act as.ft.com/r/feca7f30-1...

I first got a sense that something remarkable was brewing in Maine when driving around conservative Somerset County in the fall, eight months before the Democratic primary. This was a county that Trump won 60.4% to 37% in 2024. And it was thick with Platner signs

Here's @hdrochon.bsky.social writing for the @financialtimes.com on the Grasset affair and what it tells us about modern elites as.ft.com/r/13ae7269-1...

Richard Florida on America's changing corporate geography as.ft.com/r/7c59d984-6...

@jeremycliffe.bsky.social on the emergence of the neo-Gaullist right in Europe www.ft.com/content/cba2...

In today's edition of the FT Swamp Notes newsletter, @philgordondc.bsky.social and I discuss whether this is the US's Suez moment as.ft.com/r/0f682616-6...

Pigeon Town Steppers second line, New Orleans

'I notice he has barely touched his prosecco, while I’ve guzzled most of mine.' I had lunch with Jay McInerney as.ft.com/r/3a99aa58-2...

Not waving but drowning: Trump’s poll ratings should worry Republicans - my latest FT Swamp Notes appearance giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

I do like it when the lunchee just takes some big swings. Have a free prosecco at Balthazar with the laureate of 1980s hedonism as.ft.com/r/819b10b5-7...

'I notice he has barely touched his prosecco, while I’ve guzzled most of mine.' I had lunch with Jay McInerney as.ft.com/r/3a99aa58-2...

Trump's war is delivering a gut punch to the US economy, argues @warren.senate.gov for @financialtimes.com as.ft.com/r/54fd3b40-7...

Reading @willoyd.bsky.social’s excellent profile of Ed Miliband, which rightly stresses the influence on him of his father, reminded me of this piece about Miliband père that I wrote for the NS in 2010, during that year’s Labour leadership campaign www.newstatesman.com/uncategorize...

My review of Heather Ann Thompson’s book about the Bernie Goetz shootings and the politics of law and order in Eighties America as.ft.com/r/d4142f72-4...

My review of Heather Ann Thompson’s book about the Bernie Goetz shootings and the politics of law and order in Eighties America as.ft.com/r/d4142f72-4...

As my colleague Alex Barker argues here, you can find the entire Trump worldview in utero in the late 1980s - including the obsession with taking Kharg Island as.ft.com/r/c712ace2-4...

Fine FT obituary of Habermas by @iprnickp.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/92bbb72b-6...

My colleague @okr.bsky.social crunches the numbers on NYC's big freeze as.ft.com/r/cb54e5e5-d...

Looking forward to moderating this discussion www.eventbrite.com/e/how-princi...

In which I discuss Alexander Hamilton on the 'least dangerous' branch of government and Pam Bondi's war against the courts as.ft.com/r/983435f2-9...

Thanks to @tanjilrashid.bsky.social for inviting me on to the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social’s excellent new culture podcast to revisit one of the first pieces I ever wrote for the magazine and to talk about David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest at 30 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

The mighty Hudson at bay

My latest Swamp Note: as.ft.com/r/ae01cce7-b... Occupied America @jderbyshire.ft.com

In the latest FT Swamp Notes newsletter (and before the seizure of Maduro), I asked @constelz.bsky.social, @michaelrstrain.bsky.social, @sohrabahmari.bsky.social, Lauren Fedor and Rebecca Katz to offer some guidance to the year ahead in US politics as.ft.com/r/faed7e98-5...

My contribution to the FT’s Year in a Word series: Affordability as.ft.com/r/f5b79447-4...

In the latest edition of the FT's Swamp Notes newsletter, James Politi and I discuss whether Trump is now a lame duck as.ft.com/r/d490805c-9...

It's time to restore the civic function of US universities, argues Carlo Invernizzi Accetti as.ft.com/r/fd995cdd-c...

In this piece for @financialtimes.com, @lioneltrolling.bsky.social fears for the future of New York's poker clubs if the casino approvals go ahead as.ft.com/r/e6eb3203-3...

Me on the 'Trump corollary' to the Monroe Doctrine and the laws of war for FT Swamp Notes (with Steff Chavez weighing on where this all leaves Hegseth) as.ft.com/r/2537067d-3...

"Trump, in his way, is as much of a wolf as Putin. Europe has run out of excuses to pretend otherwise". My Swamp Notes with @martinsandbu.ft.com on why Europe must make those frozen Russian assets work for Ukraine. The time for that is now. as.ft.com/r/9144c41b-7...

It's that time of year. This seems about right.

In the latest edition of the FT Swamp Notes newsletter, Alec Russell and I examine American foreign policy in the 'age of the envoy' on.ft.com/48bZ0lR

As @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social prepares to meet Trump at the White House, in today's edition of FT Swamp Notes I ask how the Democrats will deal with the 'Mamdani effect' - with a response from the great Lauren Fedor on.ft.com/3JNZYvj

In today's FT Swamp Notes, @ranaforoohar.bsky.social and I pick the bones out of last week's election results in the US on.ft.com/49chSlE

Trump's defence of the destruction of the East Wing of the White House essentially relies on running a version of the Ship of Theseus paradox: "Over the years, many presidents have made changes."

In which I explore the history of socialism in America from Eugene Debs to DSA and the Milwaukee ‘sewer socialists’ to Zohran Mamdani on.ft.com/47quBib

Tu rigoles?!

A new financial impetus for peace in Ukraine -- Friedrich Merz writes for @financialtimes.com on.ft.com/48176hn