Doctors described ICE agents entering hospitals and clinics, lingering outside emergency departments, patients delaying or ...

Trotsky famously rejected the possibility of socialism in one country. What about in one city? Successful social democratic ...

And by November 2025 al-Sharaa was standing in the Oval Office, where even President Donald Trump expressed something like ...

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 ...

In the days following Nicolás Maduro’s kidnapping last month, a curious debate took place in which some announced the definitive end of the postwar liberal international order, while others responded ...

Events of the past decade have prompted frenzied discussion of the state of democracy across the globe. In countries across Europe, Latin America, and Asia—as well as, of course, in the United ...

The 2014 English publication of Capital in the Twenty-First Century made the French economist Thomas Piketty a household name. The bestselling book, and the discussions that surrounded its release, ...

Like U.S. history, classical music has become a new front in the culture wars as musicians and music institutions grapple with the legacies of racism. With most performing arts organizations shuttered ...

U.S. history is a strange, exceptional field of play where, to paraphrase Garrison Keillor’s famous sign-off from Lake Wobegon, all the revolutions are strong, all the revolutionaries are kind, and ...

Science is under fire as never before in the United States. Even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Donald Trump and his Republican allies dismiss the findings of health experts as casually as those of ...