ICE wants it both ways: to broadcast its might in spectacular shows of force, but to do so anonymously.

Writing in Washington Monthly in 1974, future White House speechwriter James Fallows agreed that novelists had earned their ...

Political judgment takes place within political time. And political time is less a matter of chronology than of genre. What kind of moment are we living through? Is our system of government undergoing ...

The still-reverberating consequences of U.S. foreign policy ...

In the state’s twisted logic, being a victim of violence is reason for deportation.

Iraq remains a country with deep wounds of neocolonialism and camouflaged ruination. Its unions and revolutionary parties have long lost their capacity to mobilize. For some of those living in liminal ...

In Beirut, we start our days with the latest litany of places and people hit overnight, a deluge of stories and images: buildings targeted, cars struck on highways, families wiped out. Evacuation ...

This essay appears in print in The Politics of Care. For many of us, the last few weeks have marked a new phase of our corona-lives—a dark and lonely corridor that stretches before us, no end in sight ...