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Shennette Garrett-Scott

What Price Wholeness?

A detailed new proposal for reparations for slavery raises three critical questions: How much, exactly, does America owe? Where will the money come from? And who gets paid?

February 11, 2021 issue

Sarah Churchwell

Lincoln’s Warning Against Mobocracy

“There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law,” declared the man who would be America’s sixteenth president. Only justice can make a more perfect Union.

January 15, 2021

Michael Eric Dyson

St. Paul’s Letter to America

“After the Capitol offense, all thoughts of American exceptionalism should be dead,” says the apostle. “But you need not despair.”

January 18, 2021

Mark Danner

‘Be Ready to Fight’

Trumpism is driven by cruelty and domination even as its rhetoric claims grievance and victimization. The attack on the Capitol showed that Donald Trump’s army of millions will not just melt away when he leaves office.

February 11, 2021 issue

Peter Lowe

A World Without Us: Josef Koudelka’s ‘Ruins’

These photographs of ancient sites, taken around the Mediterranean between 1991 and 2015, are particularly apt in our time of isolation and upheaval.

January 16, 2021

Perry Link

Seeing the CCP Clearly

For Chinese dissidents, the end of Washington’s deference to Beijing has been a long time coming.

February 11, 2021 issue

Gavin Francis

Changing Psychiatry’s Mind

Two books investigate the science and pseudoscience of diagnosing mental illness.

January 14, 2021 issue

Lucy Jakub

The Oldest Forest

The promise and pitfalls of commercializing kelp.

December 17, 2020 issue

“The Faulkner chronicler has to tackle the novelist’s various and often unpleasant, if not downright repellent, political positions in light of the extraordinary meditations on race, racism, violence, and cruelty in his fiction.”

— Brenda Wineapple: ‘A Land Where the Dead Past Walks’

January 14, 2021

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Michael Eric Dyson

St. Paul’s Letter to America

“After the Capitol offense, all thoughts of American exceptionalism should be dead,” says the apostle. “But you need not despair.”

January 18, 2021

Sarah Churchwell

Lincoln’s Warning Against Mobocracy

“There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law,” declared the man who would be America’s sixteenth president. Only justice can make a more perfect Union.

January 15, 2021

Jonathan Stevenson

Trump’s Lingering Menace

A seditious president who fomented an insurrection in the Capitol remains the commander-in-chief of the US military. That is an intolerably dangerous situation.

January 9, 2021

Peter Lowe

A World Without Us: Josef Koudelka’s ‘Ruins’

These photographs of ancient sites, taken around the Mediterranean between 1991 and 2015, are particularly apt in our time of isolation and upheaval.

January 16, 2021

Lavender Au

China’s Big #MeToo Test

When the people’s republic claims to have achieved gender equality, how to deal with a high-profile accusation of sexual harassment is a tricky matter.

January 12, 2021

Ankush Khardori

Wanted: Lead Suspect in Election Fraud Conspiracy

Once Trump leaves office, he loses immunity. After his attempted coup, let’s not award him impunity instead.

January 6, 2021

Law & Justice

Fintan O’Toole

William Barr: Enabler in Chief

The attorney general exemplifies the growing influence of right-wing Catholicism under Trump.

November 5, 2020 issue

Ankush Khardori

The Case for Prosecuting Trump

Putting the former president on criminal trial carries big political risks. But to let this lawless leader off scot-free may be more dangerous still.

November 20, 2020

Pamela Karlan

Our Most Vulnerable Election

If Trump leaves the White House on January 20, 2021, he will not go gentle into that good night.

October 8, 2020 issue

Noah Feldman

The Battle Over Scalia’s Legacy

The late justice advocated judicial restraint, textualism, and originalism, but conservative jurists will have to choose among them.

December 17, 2020 issue

David Cole

A New Assault on Marriage Equality

A case before the Supreme Court tests whether its conservative justices will violate their long-standing constitutional principles in order to expand religious liberty.

December 3, 2020 issue