Politics
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.
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.
Sovereignty’s End and Beginning
In Somaliland, the pursuit of statehood has come with a bitter irony.
The War on Gaza Has Not Ended
A hundred days after Trump’s Board of Peace was ratified, nothing has improved here.
A Year of Magical Thinking
Elite impunity has fueled the fantasy that catastrophes are for other people.
How to Hold a City Hostage
Historian Stuart Schrader on the untold history of police unions—and how they helped catapult cops to new heights of power and impunity.
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.
Standing at the Gates of Hell
In the West Bank, the war on Iran has removed all restraints on settler violence against Palestinians.
Hunted and Banned
Efforts to control Black mobility—from early passports to the Fugitive Slave Act—laid much of the groundwork for today’s border regimes.
The Catastrophe That Has Befallen All of Us
The director of an art center in Tehran on life under U.S.-Israeli bombardment.
Power Plays
ICE wants it both ways: to broadcast its might in spectacular shows of force, but to do so anonymously.
Antisemitism’s Afterlives
Even as the concept is weaponized against Palestinians and critics of Israel, the far right has a growing antisemitic base.
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.
The Shadow of Iraq
Crisis returns to Baghdad in the aftermath of the expanding U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.
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.
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