The work of art—and the work of making art—in an age increasingly hostile to it.

Leading the insurgence against the military regime was the Somali National Movement (SNM), founded on a nonalignment platform ...

This February, the United States and Israel started a war with Iran, massively destabilizing the Middle East. A special ...

Ali Kadivar is Associate Professor of Sociology and International Studies at Boston College and a Fellow at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University. He is author of Popular ...

Introducing our Spring 2026 issue.

The elite delusions fueling the violence of the present, at home and abroad—in the Middle East, Ukraine, and beyond.

This essay appears in our print issue, On Solidarity. As I watched Pat Buchanan address the Republican National Convention three decades ago, I cried. I can still see his doughy face and fixed ...

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 ...

The clinic was open once a week. It saw patients in a borrowed space near enough that I could walk to it, even on a bad day. Walking slow in my cognitive fog, only once did I have to pause, leaning ...

Contrary to the Obama administration, U.S. health care spending isn’t high because Americans use too much medicine. The real culprit is our fragmented and privatized system. For more than a decade, ...

This essay appears in print in Thinking in a Pandemic. Recent history tells us a lot about how epidemics unfold, how outbreaks spread, and how they are controlled. We also know a good deal about ...

On the eve of the November 1938 midterm elections, President Franklin Roosevelt delivered a forceful radio address. “If American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and ...