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Why Climate Politics Can’t Wait

“Climate hushing” is all the rage among Democrats. That’s a big mistake.

  • Aaron Regunberg

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America at 250

A roundtable on the arc of U.S. history at the nation’s semiquincentennial.

  • Adom Getachew
  • Aziz Rana
  • David Waldstreicher
  • Nikhil Pal Singh
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The Wrong Way to Criticize the Humanities

A recent report, commissioned by the chancellors of Vanderbilt and Washington University, invites further intrusions on scholarly self-governance.

  • Richard Moran
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That’s How Change Happens

Dave Zirin on writing the life of Howard Zinn–and why his legacy points the way forward at the country’s semiquincentennial.

  • Dave Zirin
  • Andrew Holter
Philosophy

Good Lives

What the denigration of disability tells us about human flourishing.

  • Jan Grue
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The Spirit of ’76

What is living and what is dead in our memory of the American Revolution.

  • David Waldstreicher
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Knowledge Collapse

AI companies are racing to mechanize mathematics. Where does that leave human understanding?

  • Michael Harris

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How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism

Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.

  • Adam Bonica
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with responses from
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  • Matthew Yglesias
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The Real Border Crisis

The problem isn’t immigration. It’s the failure of liberal democracy itself.

  • Lea Ypi
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  • Paulina Ochoa Espejo
  • T. Alexander Aleinikoff
  • Dara Lind
  • Daniel Denvir
  • Chandran Kukathas
  • Ayelet Shachar
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The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide

Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough.

  • Robin D. G. Kelley
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  • Jennifer Zacharia
  • Martin O’Neill

ICE’s reign of Terror

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Renee Good’s Murder and Other Acts of Terror

An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE—and the broader history of police violence.

  • Robin D. G. Kelley
  • Deborah Chasman
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How Not to Abolish ICE

What have we learned from the past two decades of struggle?

  • Harsha Walia
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The Making of the Deportation Machine

The pillars aren’t new. They were built over decades, with bipartisan consensus.

  • Marie Gottschalk

The War on Iran

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Object Lessons

The ceasefire in the Persian Gulf is a prelude to an emerging, precarious realignment.

  • Aslı Ü. Bâli
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The War on Iran: A Conversation

A roundtable on the consequences of U.S. and Israeli aggression, reactions from Iran and the Iranian diaspora, and the future of Iranian struggles for freedom and democracy.

  • Peyman Jafari
  • Ali Kadivar
  • Manijeh Moradian
  • Naghmeh Sohrabi
  • Alex Shams
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Iran After Khamenei

An interview with sociologist Asef Bayat on the U.S.-Israeli war, democratic opposition to the Islamic Republic, and the country’s uncertain future.

  • Asef Bayat
  • Alex Shams

Dispatches from the forever wars

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The Catastrophe That Has Befallen All of Us

The director of an art center in Tehran on life under U.S.-Israeli bombardment.

  • Naghmeh Sohrabi
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Millenarian Fantasies

In Lebanon, Israel seems to be following the same logic it deployed in Gaza: emptying out entire areas through what amounts to ethnic cleansing.

  • Joelle M. Abi-Rached
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Standing at the Gates of Hell

In the West Bank, the war on Iran has removed all restraints on settler violence against Palestinians.

  • Raja Shehadeh

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Writing About Revolution

Revolutions are acts of hope. That’s why they are the terrain of novelists as much as historians.

  • Edwin Frank

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Dispatches from the Forever Wars

A special section in our Spring 2026 issue, with writing from Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, and the West Bank.

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Remember Iraq? Remember Syria?

The still-reverberating consequences of U.S. foreign policy

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Trump’s First Year

The violent reconfiguration of U.S. politics and power

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