This February, the United States and Israel started a war with Iran, massively destabilizing the Middle East. A special ...

the Middle East, Ukraine, and beyond.

Introducing our Spring 2026 issue.

Elite impunity has fueled the fantasy that catastrophes are for other people.

On the ground in Gaza there is no trace of any effort to rebuild, nor have humanitarian conditions improved. This is what ...

2018 could be called the year of the witch. From the proliferation of magic crystal shops in Brooklyn and Los Angeles to witchy fashions on the spring 2019 runways, coven contingents at antifascist ...

I would like to stage a fight between two different accounts of the current political landscape—what’s been called the “post-truth” era, the infodemic, the end of democracy, or perhaps most accurately ...

On the eve of the November 1938 midterm elections, President Franklin Roosevelt delivered a forceful radio address. “If American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and ...

When James Baldwin visited San Francisco in 1963 to film a documentary about U.S. racism, he encountered neighborhoods in turmoil: the city was seizing properties through eminent domain, razing them, ...

“‘Culture of Poverty’ Makes a Comeback.” So read the headline of Patricia Cohen’s front-page article in the October 17, 2010 edition of The New York Times. The article was prompted by a recent issue ...