The best guarantee on the professionalism, honesty, and effectiveness of its delivery is to let international journalists ...

For Robert Jay Lifton, treating veterans’ trauma was an antiwar tool. How did PTSD, the diagnosis he helped create, come to accommodate state violence?

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Will Democrats Learn from the Establishment’s Loss? The David Hogg affair, Zohran Mamdani’s win, and the future of the Democratic coalition.

To deliver plentiful housing and clean energy, we have to get the story right about what’s standing in the way.

This essay is featured in our Winter 2025 issue, Trump’s Return. The lineup at Donald Trump’s second inaugural was a veritable billionaire’s row, with the heaviest hitters of Big Tech out in full ...

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Donald J. Trump The tragic reascent of Trump is not an anomaly to democracy but its fatal flaw.

What Turned Poor White Counties Red? Arlie Russell Hochschild blames an emotional blindness to facts, erasing the Democrats’ deep failings.

Inside Project 2025 Backed by the Heritage Foundation, the initiative seeks to undermine longstanding safeguards against abuses of executive power.

More important, even the most generous attempts to protect the political and socioeconomic rights of individuals leave some duties of individuals to their own states and all humanity out of account, ...

Not long ago and in certain small circles of academic life, the word “theory” conveyed a special magic. It signified both sophistication and freedom, elevating its devotees into a rarefied world of ...

What’s Next for Music Criticism? Pitchfork is dead, but good reviewing doesn’t have to die with it.