Politics

Human Rights

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

Jérôme Tubiana

Darfur’s Endless War

As paramilitaries tear through their already devastated province, self-defense fighters in North Darfur have taken up arms to defend their homes.

February 12, 2026 issue

Vicente L. Rafael

Massacre Under the Starry Flag

The history of a single photograph reveals how an atrocity in the Philippines was forgotten by its American perpetrators.

October 23, 2025 issue

Amro Hamada

Gaza: The War on Dialysis

As a young physician in the Strip, I study patients with end-stage kidney disease. Cut off from the care they need, many of them are silently dying.

June 24, 2025

Caroline Moorehead

After Resettlement

How has a group of Liberian refugees, resettled in the US nearly twenty-five years ago after fleeing civil war, fared in a country that has changed vastly since admitting them?

August 21, 2025 issue

Neve Gordon, Guy Shalev, and Osama Tanous

The Shame of Israeli Medicine

Faced with the destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and the systematic deprivation of Palestinians’ right to health, Israel’s medical establishment has disregarded the field’s most basic ethical principles.

May 31, 2025

Jay Neugeboren

The Homeless We Don’t See

As housing costs have risen and affordable housing remains in short supply, even Americans with full-time jobs are experiencing homelessness.

October 23, 2025 issue

David Cole

Getting Away with Murder

Trump has now ordered the killing of at least seventeen people on the high seas—with no accountability.

October 23, 2025 issue

America’s Housing Crisis

Francesca Mari

The Housing Vultures

The investors who exploited the 2008 financial crisis are dictating the bailout of this one.

June 11, 2020 issue

Gabriel M. Schivone

America’s Eviction Epidemic

Across the country, millions of people are facing eviction as protections in place for the pandemic have lapsed.

September 16, 2020

Roberta Brandes Gratz

How NYC Is Zoning Out the Human Scale

This is a New York story only for now. Upzonings and transfers of newly created air rights are occurring in cities around the country. When it comes to real estate, New York City may lead the way, but others follow in time.

December 30, 2019

A view from 7 DeKalb Avenue, an apartment tower in Downtown Brooklyn. Eighty percent of its 250 apartments are subsidized units, for which there were 87,754 applications when it opened.

Michael Greenberg

Tenants Under Siege: Inside New York City’s Housing Crisis

New York City is in the throes of a humanitarian emergency. The tide of homelessness is only the most visible symptom.

August 17, 2017 issue

On Migration

Willa Glickman

‘People Are Not a Crisis’

Eric Adams has insisted that his administration is doing its best to house New York’s asylum seekers, but the city’s shortage of shelter space is the result of political choices.

July 23, 2023

Scholastique Mukasonga, translated by Emma Ramadan

Exiles

I recognize in these young people—driven from their homes by war, famine, poverty—an unshakable energy called Hope.

July 11, 2023

Aida Alami

The Land of Dust and Plastic

In Almería, the Moroccan and West African migrant workers who sustain the region’s booming agriculture industry find themselves either neglected or persecuted by the state.

June 24, 2023

Andrea R. Flores

Asylum in Limbo

Like the Trump-era policy it replaces, Biden’s new asylum ban suggests that certain migrants are less deserving of humanitarian protection than others.

May 28, 2023

The Latest

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

Doha Kahlout, translated by Katharine Halls

Elegy for Rafah

For the tens of thousands of Gazans who need to leave the Strip but want the chance to come back home, life revolves around the Rafah crossing.

March 20, 2026

Joshua Hammer

A Man-Made Disaster

There has never been a moral and historical reckoning with the horrors inflicted by the Allied firebombing of Japan during World War II.

April 9, 2026 issue

Loubna El Amine

Lebanon’s Negations

Tenuous modus vivendis have always defined the Lebanese state. Israel’s war will merely create a new one—at the cost of great destruction and death.

March 18, 2026

Orly Noy

Longing for My Tehran

On the Israeli news, I watch as the country whose citizenship I hold devastates the one where I was born.

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

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