This week marks eight decades since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, devastating the two cities, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, and ...

This note introduces our Summer 2025 issue. Read the Table of Contents here . Subscribe to get a copy.

Given the history of Israel’s smearing of journalists in Gaza as a precursor to assassinating them, the Committee to Protect Journalists publicly called for al-Sharif’s protection. But on August 10, ...

The truth is clear: as all possible mechanisms to stop Israel’s illegal onslaught are pursued, a full spectrum of aid is also needed in Gaza today. The best guarantee on the professionalism, honesty, ...

July 16, 2025 In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life It Brings James C. Scott Yale University Press, $28 Intertidal Yuvan Aves Bonnier, £22.00 Is a River Alive? Robert Macfarlane W. W.

Such campaigns have a longer history, dating all the way back to the American Revolution. With the “nonimportation” movement, elites called on ordinary colonists to eschew British products and ...

The Chainsaw International From Trump to Milei, the far right is betting that spectacles of revenge will compensate for steep economic sacrifice.

This essay is featured in our Winter 2025 issue, Trump’s Return. “They let—I think the real number is fifteen, sixteen million people into our country,” Donald Trump told a crowd in December 2023 ...

Critics are right: the algorithms that increasingly run the world can be dangerous. Are human systems always better?

September 16, 2024 Worries about the twilight of American hegemony and China’s rise are producing a new consensus in Washington. At a recent congressional hearing on “the Chinese Communist Party’s ...

The measure of any reform proposal is twofold. Is it a good idea, and is it possible? Restoring fusion is also a refreshingly modest reform. Unlike proposals to abolish the Electoral College or permit ...

In the United States, each congressional district sends one representative to the House. When only a single seat is up for grabs, two parties typically emerge. That is, single-member districts tend to ...