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Zack Beauchamp
Senior Correspondent
Zack Beauchamp is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he covers challenges to democracy in the United States and abroad, right-wing populism, and the world of ideas. He has received funding awards from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to report on democratic decline in Israel and Hungary in the field, and is the author of On The Right, a newsletter on the American conservative movement. He has appeared on a wide range of television and radio networks, including MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, BBC, CBC, ABC (Australia), and Al Jazeera.
His book on democracy, The Reactionary Spirit, will publish in July and is currently available for pre-order.
Latest articles by Zack Beauchamp
![You’re a liberal and you don’t even know it](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-2149408696.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![You’re a liberal and you don’t even know it](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-2149408696.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
A new book explains how liberalism shapes all of our lives — and lights a way toward a better political future.
![The silver lining to Biden’s debate disaster](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-2158994243.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.65%2C0%2C66.7%2C100&w=2400)
![The silver lining to Biden’s debate disaster](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-2158994243.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.02498750624688%2C100%2C99.950024987506&w=2400)
The president's performance prompted calls for a radical change. That might be just what America needs.
![France’s far right is on the brink of power. Blame its centrist president.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1240127262.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=17%2C0%2C66%2C100&w=2400)
![France’s far right is on the brink of power. Blame its centrist president.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1240127262.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.5%2C0%2C99%2C100&w=2400)
How Emmanuel Macron accidentally helped the far right normalize itself.
![Donald Trump is getting away with it](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-2159606063.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=17.066666666667%2C0%2C65.866666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Donald Trump is getting away with it](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-2159606063.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.6%2C0%2C98.8%2C100&w=2400)
The debate proved that Donald Trump is still a threat to democracy. How have we lost sight of that?
![Why Israel acts the way it does](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-2157993308.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Why Israel acts the way it does](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-2157993308.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Its catastrophic war policy is driven by a national ideology of trauma.
![Taking the right seriously](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-2028791115.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.690716690717%2C0%2C66.618566618567%2C100&w=2400)
![Taking the right seriously](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-2028791115.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.036075036075033%2C0%2C99.92784992785%2C100&w=2400)
On the Right tracks how the dreams of conservative intellectuals are becoming reality.
![Israel’s “war cabinet” just fell apart. What happens now?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-2156217195.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.66314900802%2C0%2C66.673701983959%2C100&w=2400)
![Israel’s “war cabinet” just fell apart. What happens now?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-2156217195.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.0052759312018509%2C100%2C99.989448137596&w=2400)
Benny Gantz’s departure from the war cabinet won't change much immediately. But it could end up mattering a lot.
![India just showed the world how to fight an authoritarian on the rise](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-2155440988.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=14.387464387464%2C0%2C71.225071225071%2C100&w=2400)
![India just showed the world how to fight an authoritarian on the rise](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-2155440988.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C3.2%2C100%2C93.6&w=2400)
Three big lessons from Narendra Modi's shocking underperformance in the 2024 election.
![Why the ludicrous Republican response to Trump’s conviction matters](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/gettyimages-2154742600.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Why the ludicrous Republican response to Trump’s conviction matters](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/gettyimages-2154742600.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Republicans are busy attacking the legitimacy of the American legal and political system. We've seen where that leads.
![The slaughter in Rafah and Israel’s moral nadir](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/AP24148281165027.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![The slaughter in Rafah and Israel’s moral nadir](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/AP24148281165027.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Israel is massacring Palestinians — and undermining its own security in the process.