Binyamin Appelbaum

Binyamin Appelbaum
The New York Times

Britain’s Struggles are America’s Future

Ask Americans to close their eyes and imagine the future, and they probably won’t picture Britain. That’s the land of yesterday: castles, warm beer, an actual king. But a new paper argues that events on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean — specifically Britain’s post-Brexit struggles — offer a…

The Founders of a Nation Should Not Have the Last Word

Writing a new Constitution strikes many Americans as a transgressive idea. Our Constitution is the oldest in the world, and it has come to seem immutable. The last really substantive change was a 1971 amendment lowering the voting age to 18. Instead of updating a text written more than 200 years…