The Weekly Sift

This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this. - Jimmy Kimm...

No Sift for the next two weeks. New articles will appear September 29. Judges in the trenches need, and deserve, well-reasoned, bright-...

I think many Americans wrongly believe there would be one clear unambiguous moment where we go from “democracy” to “authoritarianism.” Inst...

Tyrannies don’t always get their way by establishing a secret police force that arrests people at will — although we’re getting that too. M...