Politics

The Putin Problem

Western leaders think of Putin as an aberration. They are wrong.

  • Thomas Graham
  • Rajan Menon

It’s The Gap, Stupid

Three books draw a disturbing picture of America as a system of compounding inequality driven by a hereditary meritocracy of professional elites.

  • Archon Fung

When Politics Drives Scholarship

Nancy MacLean’s new book has set off a heated debate. But strong claims require strong evidence, and mistakes could mislead liberals and the left.

  • Henry Farrell
  • Steven M. Teles

Statue Mania

Focusing only on Confederate monuments misses that racism is memorialized everywhere.

  • Jonathan Beecher Field

Business as Usual: The Long History of Corporate Personhood

Contrary to most narratives, corporations have always been one of the most powerful forces in American political life.

  • Lawrence B. Glickman

Kenya’s New Electoral Authoritarianism

Elections are now used to legitimate authoritarian regimes, not herald liberal democracy. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Kenya.

  • Aziz Rana

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The Book that Explains Charlottesville

The University of Virginia has long been a bastion of white supremacy and white supremacy–validating scholarship.

  • Marshall Steinbaum

How to Avoid War with North Korea

As Trump tweets us closer to war, a look back at North Korean nationalism may provide an out.

  • Odd Arne Westad

Kochonomics: The Racist Roots of Public Choice Theory

A controversial new book traces how the anti-democratic projects of the Jim Crow South evolved into an economic theory still championed by the GOP today.

  • Bethany Moreton

WATCH: The President’s House Is Empty

From healthcare to education to clean water, the things that are owed to members of a democracy are under threat today. Our new issue explores the question of public goods and what we can do to save them.

Open for Business, Not Human Rights: Trump’s Priorities in Central America

A recent conference made it clear: military and corporate interests will prevail.

  • Lauren Carasik

What Is Putin’s Endgame?

Russiagate is causing more stress than glee for Putin, who always thought Hillary would win.

  • Thomas Graham
  • Rajan Menon

A Witch-Hunt in Turkey

After Turkey's failed 2016 coup, retribution has become a farcical national obsession.

  • Umar Farooq

Ants Among Elephants

Sujatha Gidla, born an untouchable in India, tells the story of her family.

  • Sujatha Gidla

Mourning in America

Why the left needs melancholy.

  • Peter E. Gordon

Populism’s Perfect Storm

The very forces that sustain populist politics could eventually undermine populism.

  • Rogers Brubaker

At G20, All Eyes on Germany

Can Angela Merkel circumvent Trump to build a multipolar alliance on climate change?

  • Paul Hockenos

For Labour, Victory Next Time

Were Labour's gains in the recent British election overblown, or is there real cause for hope?

  • Martin O’Neill

Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again

Junot Díaz talks with Atwood about The Handmaid’s Tale, political dystopias, and Drake.

  • Margaret Atwood
  • Junot Díaz

A Defense of Slowbalization

When it comes to globalization, slowing down is the best way forward.

  • Andrew Schrank

How Trump Builds: On the Hollow Promise of #InfrastructureWeek

Trump’s infrastructure proposal is more propaganda than plan.

  • Max B. Sawicky

The Conservative Con That Gave Us Trumpcare

The American Health Care Act has a long history that returns us to the New Deal and its critics.

  • Lawrence B. Glickman

Silicon Valley to Liberal Arts Majors: We Want You

Tech billionaires love to declare the death of liberal arts, but could they instead be the future of Silicon Valley?

  • Tom Slee

How George Osborne and Ed Miliband Saved Labour

It has not been an easy path from Blairite centrism to radical socialist hope.

  • Martin O’Neill
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