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

Efforts to control Black mobility—from early passports to the Fugitive Slave Act—laid much of the groundwork for today’s ...

ICE wants it both ways: to broadcast its might in spectacular shows of force, but to do so anonymously.

Political judgment takes place within political time. And political time is less a matter of chronology than of genre. What kind of moment are we living through? Is our system of government undergoing ...

Its increasingly contradictory weaponization exposes how little it has ever had to do with the Jews.

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

In the state’s twisted logic, being a victim of violence is reason for deportation.

The 2014 English publication of Capital in the Twenty-First Century made the French economist Thomas Piketty a household name. The bestselling book, and the discussions that surrounded its release, ...

I would like to stage a fight between two different accounts of the current political landscape—what’s been called the “post-truth” era, the infodemic, the end of democracy, or perhaps most accurately ...

The United States has never been “a nation of immigrants.” It has always been a settler state with a core of descendants from the original colonial settlers, that is, primarily Anglo-Saxons, Scots, ...

In 1947 Julian Huxley, English evolutionary theorist and director-general of UNESCO, wrote Mohandas Gandhi to ask him to contribute an essay to a collection of philosophical reflections on human ...

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 ...