Amid a split in the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton headlined an event that was part music festival, part TED Talk. We went with two hosts from Chapo Trap House to check it out. By Jamie Peck.

The Specials

“Trump supporters see themselves as a distinct and independent force in the nation -- the saviors of America, in their diseased minds -- and they now hate the Democratic Party in a far deeper way than before.” By Glen Ford.

For one thing, it’s not Trump country. Most struggling whites I know here live a life of quiet desperation, mad at their white bosses, not resentful toward their co-workers or neighbors of color. By Sarah Smarsh.

Even in an era of historic media fragmentation, Donald Trump dominates our attention universe to the point where he blocks out the sun. Is it any wonder that people don’t have any idea what Democrats stand for? By Peter Hamby.

What this $5 million mural says about art and finance stewing in the same nihilistic culture pot. By James McElroy.

I didn’t know that I have been contributing to the crumbling infrastructure of our national parks. By Mike Ervin.

Don’t buy the oily declarations from the tech billionaires and others that they want to help you survive financially. What they want is to more fully stuff their own pockets. By Chris Hedges.

If you are a radical leftist who believes, as generations of leftists before you have done, that military, political, media, and financial elites operate in the shadows to promote their interests, to wage class war, then not only are you a conspiracy theorist, according to Pfeffer, but you are by definition anti-semitic as well. By Jonathan Cook.

While they may be thriving economically, coastal cities thrive on income inequality and a politically powerless underclass. By Reihan Salam.

The Australian government recently tried to replace social services with software. What does fully automated austerity look like? By Gillian Terzis.

In district after district, the Democratic Party machinery is throwing its weight behind congressional candidates who are out of step with the national mood. By Ryan Grim, Lee Fang.

One of the most influential commentators in the US now recognises that white working-class voters have shifted en masse to the Republicans. By Thomas Frank. (Jan. 10, 2018)

The disagreement between Coates and me is clear: his view of black America is narrow and dangerously misleading. By Cornel West.

Billionaire Sebastian Pinera swept to victory in the second round of Chile’s presidential election, putting him back in charge of Latin America’s wealthiest country after four years of anemic growth that drew millions of voters to his pro-business agenda. Stocks posted the biggest intraday gain in six years. By Philip Sanders, Javiera Quiroga.

Donald Trump’s election last year exposed an insidious politics of celebrity, one in which a redemptive personality is projected high above the slow toil of political parties and movements. This may be hard to admit but the path to such a presidency of spectacle and vicarious participation was paved by the previous occupant of the White House. By Pankaj Mishra.

There are numerous examples of a deceitful culture at Uber and more examples keep coming out. By Leonid Bershidsky.

Harvey Weinstein seemed to fit right in. This is a form of liberalism that routinely blends self-righteousness with upper-class entitlement. By Thomas Frank.

The Democratic Party this week plans to name 75 people including lobbyists and political operatives to leadership posts that come with superdelegate votes at its next presidential convention, potentially aggravating old intraparty tensions as it struggles to confront President Donald Trump. By Jennifer Epstein.

Globalisation has turned citizenship into a commodity. Matthew Valencia went shopping for a new passport and found bargains to be had.