When news of the end of the Vietnam War arrived fifty years ago, immortalized in images of U.S. helicopters lifting off from ...

How neoliberals fell in love with “human nature”—the glue that still unites the divergent factions of the new right.

Democracy depends on the free exchange of ideas. Help sustain it with a tax-deductible donation today. This is the first installment of a new bimonthly column by David Austin Walsh. “A moment of ...

Around sunset on March 25, Fatema Ahmad, executive director of the grassroots Muslim Justice League in Boston, was winding down after a call with a group of attorneys. They had been strategizing their ...

The identity of a nation lies in its borders. Santiago Zabala, Søren Tinning A political and literary forum, independent and nonprofit since 1975. Registered 501(c)(3) organization.

Michael D. Snediker, Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston, is author of The Apartment of Tragic Appliances.

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers,” Dick the Butcher declares in Shakespeare’s Henry VI: Part 2. Trump understands that for authoritarianism to prevail, the first thing to do is to ...

In an image shared around the world, Elon Musk is seen grunting while waving a chainsaw over his head at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington in February. Perhaps less ...

In the midst of every crisis, the cliché goes, lies a great opportunity. And there has been no greater crisis for Israel than October 7, the country’s most devastating security failure under its most ...

In 1945 a ship lay in wait on the Mersey River by Liverpool, then Britain’s foremost imperial port. Stripped of its cargo and packed with bunk beds, the ship contained a hundred dazed Chinese ...