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5 days ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | John Halpin |Ruy Teixeira |Michael Baharaeen
✝️ “FULL TEXT: Pope Leo’s XIV’s Homily at Mass With the Cardinal Electors in the Sistine Chapel,” published in the National Catholic Register.
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6 days ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | Ruy Teixeira
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -59:15Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Today I’m joined by Michael Lind, co-founder of New America and the author of Hell to Pay: How the Suppression of Wages is Destroying America. Michael walks us through the last couple decades of globalization, including how both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump came to denounce the TPP.
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1 week ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | Michael Baharaeen
Shortly after the 2024 election, I wrote a piece reflecting on how the Democrats had taken the wrong lessons from the results of the prior two general elections, leading them to make fatal missteps and facilitate Donald Trump’s return to the presidency. This included Joe Biden’s 2020 win and the party’s unexpectedly good midterm in 2022.
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1 week ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | John Halpin |Ruy Teixeira |Michael Baharaeen
Editor’s note: This week we’re recommending five of our favorite Substacks that put out consistently excellent and interesting work. Please give them a look and subscribe if you can. 🌍 Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism, by Yaw Asamoah. Unbelievably detailed posts from Asamoah on African development and more general geopolitics and economics.
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1 week ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | Ava Kelley
“And in the near future, I want to do what has not been done in 24 years: balance the federal budget. We are going to balance it,” President Donald Trump declared in his address to a joint session of Congress on March 4, 2025. In one of the first acts of his second term, Trump established the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to help accomplish this longstanding goal of the Republican Party. DOGE’s mission is to cut waste and ensure federal agencies implement his policy agenda.
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2 weeks ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | Ruy Teixeira
Judging from the early days of the Trump administration there should be no dearth of contenders for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination. It definitely looks like a prize worth having. Trump’s approval ratings have dropped rapidly, including on the all-important area of the economy, formerly his greatest strength. Public support for his trade war is weak and the outcome potentially dire.
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2 weeks ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | Michael Baharaeen
Since Donald Trump’s election in November, political observers have noticed something different about his second go at the presidency: he has enjoyed more popular support than he did the first time around. At the end of his first term, Trump had one of the lowest presidential approval ratings on record, and he averaged the lowest approval of any president in the polling era throughout his four years. Immediately following January 6, it seemed that his political career was finished.
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2 weeks ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | John Halpin |Ruy Teixeira
ūüďĒ ‚ÄúThe Post-Neoliberal Delusion,‚ÄĚ by Jason Furman. This long essay on the limitations of Joe Biden‚Äôs post-neoliberal policies in Foreign Affairs from a while back is worth revisiting in light of the Trump administration‚Äôs own challenges on this front.
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2 weeks ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | Ruy Teixeira
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -54:17Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. This week I welcome Henry Olsen back to the podcast. Henry is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center—and has the distinction of being our first repeat guest on the show. We start our conversation on the continent. How has populism, both left and right, fared in Europe in the 21st century? Will the AfD continue its rise in German politics? What about Marine Le Pen and French populism?
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3 weeks ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | Ruy Teixeira
Democrats appear to have rediscovered the working class in the wake of the 2024 election. Their dismal showing among these voters—both white and nonwhite—doomed Kamala Harris’s candidacy and got them, and the country, another term of Donald Trump. So now Democrats want those voters back, and they’re racking their brains trying to figure out how to sell their party to the working class.