Editors' Picks

The New World Order

The 1850s were a turning point for globalization, from telegraphs to colonization.

  • Matthew Karp

Making Chinese Officials Accountable, Blog by Blog

Despite the risks, Chinese social media users are beating online censorship.

  • Greg Distelhorst
  • Diana Fu
  • Yue Hou

Kashmir’s High Price for Demanding Independence

In the name of fighting radical Islam, Indian troops have gone to war with civilians.

  • Tariq Mir

On Ice

In U.S. Customs and Border Protection facilities, the law’s reach is tenuous.

  • Colin Dayan

Between Experts and Citizens

Brexit is an episode in the long contest between rulers and the working class.

  • Jo Guldi

Transparents

When your father is trans, memoir is both personal and political.

  • Judith Levine

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The End of Work

Government has always played an outsize role in creating jobs—and still can.

  • Claude S. Fischer

Bad News for Brazilian Democracy

Dilma Rousseff's impeachment circumvented the democratic process.

  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi

Mourning 9/11

America continues to be haunted by our need to grieve.

  • Ingrid Norton

Will Peace Bring Justice to Colombia?

Will victims of the war be served by the call for restorative justice?

  • Lauren Carasik

Black Nationalism and Liberation

Integration doesn’t guarantee equality or freedom.

  • Garrett Felber

Great Exploitations

States are stealing from orphans to pad their budgets. And it's legal.

  • Erik Loomis

No Easy End to Prison Profiteering

The DOJ says it will stop using private prisons. The truth is more complicated.

  • Christopher Petrella

“Go home!”: Being Foreign in Post-Brexit Britain

For many EU citizens in the UK, the Brexit vote means the end of home as they know it.

  • Andrea Mammone

NATO Has Problems, But Trump Won’t Fix Them

Trump may have just been running off at the mouth, but policy experts agree he’s not entirely wrong about our dysfunctional relationship with NATO.

  • Simon Waxman

What Does Black Lives Matter Want?

The ideas in the movement’s new manifesto would enrich our practice of democracy.

  • Robin D. G. Kelley

Blood in Honduras, Silence in the United States

The U.S. turns a blind eye on the murder of environmentalist Berta Cáceres.

  • Lauren Carasik

Choosing Violence

War is almost always a choice, a madness we go along with.

  • Oded Na’aman

Pink and Blue

Many young children become obsessed with gender. How do we know which are trans?

  • Anne Fausto-Sterling

The End of the Beginning

The resolution of a tantalizing hint of new physics discovered last year.

  • Matthew Buckley

Queers Against Hate

Radical gay liberation laid the ground for the moderate legal gains of gay rights.

  • Michael Bronski

The Ideology of the Olympics

The Olympics have long tried to obscure the political nature of sport.

  • Robert L. Kehoe III

White Leghorns

On the cruelties the South doles out to animals, children, and black folks.

  • Colin Dayan

Paying for Punishment

Debt still sends many people—especially black people—to jail.

  • Donna Murch
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