Iran, attacked and sanctioned, has turned geography into leverage while serving as an object lesson that restraint may invite ...

The legislation technically prohibited giving information about queer relationships to minors, but it has been used much more ...

COVID-19 has exposed the fragility and inequity of the U.S. system of higher education. Decades of state disinvestment coupled with the rise of corporate management techniques has led to skyrocketing ...

While Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro denies that a serious public health crisis is underway, a small municipality an hour up the coast from Rio de Janeiro has instituted a remarkable and effective ...

Calls to abolish ICE are as old as the agency itself. When it was established in 2003 by President George W. Bush with bipartisan support, ICE was meant to serve as the domestic arm of the U.S.-led ...

“I confess that when I went to Vietnam early in February I was looking for material damaging to the American interest, and that I found it, though often by accident or in the process of being briefed ...

Nine months into Donald Trump’s second term, MAGA appears more powerful than ever. Trump’s war on the pillars of civil society have scored real victories. Several elite universities have been cowed; ...

Events of the past decade have prompted frenzied discussion of the state of democracy across the globe. In countries across Europe, Latin America, and Asia—as well as, of course, in the United ...

When Plato was an infant, bees alighted on his lips and, nestling there, set about making honey. His parents had placed him, sleeping, on the summit of a mountain while they paid tribute to the gods, ...

A number of recent books have put the methods of the social sciences in the service of understanding Trump, his movement, and his enablers, from Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum’s A Lot of People ...

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 ...