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

Its increasingly contradictory weaponization exposes how little it has ever had to do with the Jews.

In Lebanon, Israel seems to be following the same logic it deployed in Gaza: emptying out entire areas through what amounts to ethnic cleansing.

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 ...

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

According to the right, a specter is haunting the United States: the specter of critical race theory (CRT). On the eve of losing the presidency, Donald Trump issued an executive order in September ...

The assault marks a dramatic escalation of Trump’s increasingly belligerent foreign policy, despite his having campaigned against war and military adventurism. “I’m not going to start wars,” Trump ...

Trump’s return has vaulted pro-crypto interests into power. As they capture ever more Democrats, the political will to stop them is dwindling. Without Donald Trump, the crypto industry would have met ...

When Plato was an infant, bees alighted on his lips and, nestling there, set about making honey. His parents had placed him, sleeping, on the summit of a mountain while they paid tribute to the gods, ...

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 ...

While Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro denies that a serious public health crisis is underway, a small municipality an hour up the coast from Rio de Janeiro has instituted a remarkable and effective ...