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Obama's Original Sin

A new insider account reveals how the Obama administration’s botched bailout deal not only reinforced neoliberal Clintonism, but also foreshadowed an ongoing failure to fulfill campaign promises.

Eric Rauchway

Class & Inequality

Whistling Past the Graveyard

A decade after the financial crisis, economists still have not rethought macroeconomics. A new history takes on the field's unrepentant hubris.

Jonathan Kirshner

War & Security

Imperialism After Empire

A new book reveals the extent of the "Greater United States," but territory is not as important as it used to be. Instead, imperialism endures today in the logic of capitalism.

Stuart Schrader

Politics

The End of the End of History

What does it mean to live in a world in which history has rusted under the monstrous weight of the permanent now?

Maximillian Alvarez

Class & Inequality

Debunking the Capitalist Cowboy

Business schools fetishize entrepreneurial innovation, but their most prominent heroes succeeded because they manipulated corporate law, not because of personal brilliance.

Nan Enstad

Politics

The Death and Life of the Jewish Century

The resurgence of anti-Semitism today is not a quirk of Donald Trump. As a new book shows, it has deep roots in powerful institutions.

Benjamin Balthaser

Literature & Culture

Poland’s Forgotten Bohemian War Hero

From the bisexual demimonde of prewar Paris to investigating Soviet war crimes, Józef Czapski’s life encapsulates the extremes of twentieth-century Europe.

Marta Figlerowicz

Literature & Culture

Was Architecture Better Under Socialism?

Yugoslavia produced a thrilling variety of buildings—frequently departing from the prefabricated monotony of the Eastern Bloc.

Anthony Paletta

Race

Confronting the Relics of the Old South

Two attractions in Alabama—the new national lynching memorial and the First Confederate White House—show a nation struggling to contend with its legacy of racial violence.

Liza Oliver

Politics

American Extremism Has Always Flowed from the Border

Donald Trump says there is “a crisis of the soul” at the border. He is right, though not in the way he thinks.

Greg Grandin

Gender & Sexuality

All the Witches They Could Not Burn

A woman’s body is both a site of exploitation and a site of resistance. It is out of this vexed space that the witch is conjured.

Jessie Kindig

Race

The Missing Malcolm X

Our understanding of Malcolm X is inextricably linked to his autobiography, but newly discovered materials force us to reexamine his legacy. 

Garrett Felber

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