Politics

United States

Laurence H. Tribe

Is the Constitution ‘Dead, Dead, Dead’?

The difficulty of amending the Constitution does not mean that it is a flawed and outdated relic of a distant past.

February 12, 2026 issue

Paisley Currah

The Anti-Trans Playbook

The current crusade against trans people imperils not just their rights but the survival of the legal doctrine built to protect all women from discrimination.

December 18, 2025 issue

Jed S. Rakoff

It’s a Racket!

Cryptocurrency has largely managed to remain free of government regulation, and as a result has often become a vehicle for fraud and criminality.

December 18, 2025 issue

Marilynne Robinson

At What Cost?

New York’s mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, plans to absorb individual costs into the collective life of the city, but whether that will be enough is an open question.

January 15, 2026 issue

Annette Gordon-Reed

Jefferson Divided

The progressive ideals that Thomas Jefferson aspired to in his writings were often at odds with the values of early America—and with the way he himself lived.

December 18, 2025 issue

Zephyr Teachout

Selling a Defective Dream

How did multilevel marketing schemes come to be legal, let alone so widespread? The answer has to do with how we think of workers and how we think of consumers.

December 4, 2025 issue

Robert Sullivan

The Third Sovereign

If there is hope for the earth, it will depend in part on acknowledging indigenous sovereignty in the face of insatiable resource extraction.

December 4, 2025 issue

Gordon F. Sander

Not for Sale

President Trump’s threats to seize Greenland have caused consternation and fear among Danes and Greenlanders alike.

December 4, 2025 issue

Over Abundance

Trevor Jackson

How to Blow Up a Planet

For liberal supporters of the “abundance” movement, deregulation is crucial to solving climate and economic crises. Their critics argue something more confrontational is needed.

September 25, 2025 issue

Robert Kuttner

Free Markets, Besieged Citizens

Why did Democratic presidents embrace an economic credo that annihilated their own public philosophy and its appeal to the electorate?

July 21, 2022 issue

Thomas Frank

What’s the Matter with Liberals?

“Once again, the ‘party of the people’ chose to sacrifice the liberal economic policies that used to connect them to such voters on the altar of centrism.”

May 12, 2005 issue

Lars-Erik Nelson

Watch Out, Democrats!

“Instead of personal prosperity, traditional working-class voters get condescending lectures about the virtues of free trade, often couched in language suggesting that anyone who doubts the benefits of globalization is a knuckle-dragging mouth-breather.”

July 20, 2000 issue

“To Serve and Protect”

Peter C. Baker

A Legacy of Torture in Chicago

“Chicago has a police torture problem. The exact size of this problem is not known and perhaps never will be. What is known for sure is that between 1972 and 1991 at least 125 black Chicagoans were tortured by police officers in the Area 2 precinct building on the city’s predominantly black South Side.”

July 2, 2020 issue

I.F. Stone

Fabricated Evidence in the Kent State Killings

“After the report on the Kent State killings by the Ohio special Portage County grand jury, law officers may feel as free to shoot white students as they do black.”

December 3, 1970 issue

John Gregory Dunne

Law & Disorder in Los Angeles

“This is a public, surveys have suggested, that believes crime to be the number-one domestic political issue, want strong law enforcement, and would not and often did not make much of a fuss about police brutality as long as it was kept out of sight, out of mind.”

October 10, 1991 issue

Annette Gordon-Reed

The Problem of Police Powers for People Living While Black

There is no doubt that our country’s troubled racial history has helped shape current attitudes. It should not surprise us that the police more often apply that discretion to black people in degrading and dangerous ways.

June 13, 2020

The Latest

Bill McKibben

Syphoning Morale

The attack on the independence of Stars and Stripes is a window into Hegseth’s unaccountable military.

March 27, 2026

a conversation with Osita Nwanevu and Suzanne Schneider

The Neocons’ Revenge?

Trump’s war has deepened the already-widening cracks in the MAGA coalition.

March 25, 2026

Neve Gordon

The Gaza Doctrine

Over the course of two years, Israeli forces systematically destroyed the Gaza Strip’s health system. Their attacks in Iran and Lebanon follow a disturbingly similar pattern.

March 22, 2026

Marc Elias, in conversation with Sue Halpern

Rigging the Vote: Trump’s Threats to Elections

March 19, 2026

Amir Ahmadi Arian

Of Fire and Rain

It was sometime in the afternoon, checking my phone for news from home, that I saw the flames.

March 14, 2026

Amy Littlefield

Since Dobbs

The telehealth network circumventing abortion bans has given people new choices—even as they contend with new forms of uncertainty.

March 13, 2026

Fintan O’Toole

Signifying Absolutely Nothing

Trump’s war of choice in Iran is a performance of horrific military strength that betrays a stark political weakness.

April 9, 2026 issue

Pankaj Mishra

A Bitter Education

In its quiescence to the West’s war on Iran, India is squandering a precious legacy.

April 9, 2026 issue

Aryeh Neier

The New War on Speech

In modern US history, there has never been an attack on free expression quite like Donald Trump’s.

March 10, 2026

Arang Keshavarzian

Iran Transformed

To understand the regime the US now seeks to obliterate, we have to return to the political and economic convulsions that produced last January’s uprising.

March 8, 2026