{"id":208328,"date":"2026-02-03T15:22:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=208328"},"modified":"2026-02-03T15:22:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:22:31","slug":"welcome-to-the-january-issue-of-the-highlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=208328","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the January issue of The Highlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s political binary \u2014 left and right, Democrat and Republican \u2014 can feel inescapable. But historically, it\u2019s a relatively new development, and academically, some political scientists argue it\u2019s nonsense: What we think of as immutable political realities are instead artificial alliances of political convenience. In this month\u2019s Highlight cover story&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/the-highlight\/475279\/welcome-to-the-january-issue-of-the-highlight\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s political binary \u2014 left and right, Democrat and Republican \u2014 can feel inescapable. But<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208328-welcome-to-the-january-issue-of-the-highlight.jpg",1200,623,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208328-welcome-to-the-january-issue-of-the-highlight-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208328-welcome-to-the-january-issue-of-the-highlight-300x156.jpg",300,156,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208328-welcome-to-the-january-issue-of-the-highlight-768x399.jpg",640,333,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208328-welcome-to-the-january-issue-of-the-highlight-1024x532.jpg",640,333,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208328-welcome-to-the-january-issue-of-the-highlight.jpg",1200,623,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208328-welcome-to-the-january-issue-of-the-highlight.jpg",1200,623,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208328-welcome-to-the-january-issue-of-the-highlight-1024x532.jpg",1024,532,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208328-welcome-to-the-january-issue-of-the-highlight-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208328-welcome-to-the-january-issue-of-the-highlight-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/208329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}