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Christine Henneberg, David Cole, Anne Enright, Sherrilyn Ifill, and Sue Halpern

The End of Roe?

Writers respond to the leaked Supreme Court draft decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

June 9, 2022 issue

Erica Getto

Choreographed Uncertainty

Even the most rigorous viewing of a Trisha Brown dance will never quite reveal the springs and levers that hold it together.

June 22, 2022

Nawal Arjini

Democracy in Concrete

An exhibition of postcolonial architecture in South Asia looks back with nostalgia at modernism’s promise of social progress.

June 26, 2022

Liza Batkin

Ruling by Fear

The Supreme Court’s conservative justices paint a dark portrait of society, danger lurking in every shadow, to justify overturning a New York gun control law.

June 25, 2022

Andrew Delbanco

Endowed by Slavery

The history of university coffers suggests a centuries-long conversion of blood money into benefactions.

June 23, 2022 issue

Annie Sparrow

Health Care Under Fire

The fight to protect medical and humanitarian workers is not new, but we are running out of time before it becomes futile.

June 23, 2022 issue

James Mann

The Birchers & the Trumpers

A new biography of Robert Welch traces the origins and history of the conspiracy-obsessed anti-Communist John Birch Society and, in the process, provides historical perspective on the far-right populism of the Trump era.

June 23, 2022 issue

Scott W. Stern

Dire Straits

Toxic Debt, Josiah Rector’s history of Detroit’s struggles for clean air and water, argues that municipal debt and austerity have furthered an ongoing environmental catastrophe.

June 23, 2022 issue

Peter E. Gordon

In Search of Recognition

The philosopher Axel Honneth argues that the act of recognizing one another forms the scaffolding of our personal and social world.

June 23, 2022 issue

Larry Rohter

An Eternal Symbol of Black Resistance

Gayl Jones’s novel Palmares sees the legendary Brazilian slave haven as a story to which all descendants of Africans brought forcibly to the Americas can lay claim.

June 23, 2022 issue

Frances Wilson

Meet the Parents

In Claudia Durastanti’s autofictional novel about growing up with deaf parents, she is more at ease with her family’s unknowability than her own.

June 23, 2022 issue

Lynn Hunt

I, the People

Was Robespierre proof that violent revolution in the name of rights and social justice could only result in terror and authoritarianism?

June 23, 2022 issue

Laura Kolbe

Where Does It Hurt?

Three new books attempt to locate the origin of pain and its vocabulary.

June 23, 2022 issue

Keith Thomas

A ‘Puritan Jihadi’

Oliver Cromwell’s cruelty and fervent, born-again religiosity were extreme, even by the standards of the age.

June 23, 2022 issue

On Abortion

Christine Henneberg

Aspirations

As an abortion provider, what I give my patients is not just a procedure but the space to make their own decisions about their bodies.

May 5, 2022

Robert L. Tsai and Mary Ziegler

The New Abortion Vigilantism

The abortion bounty law is novel and thus far unique to Texas, but similar civil enforcement regimes have a much darker history.

September 23, 2021

Jill Filipovic, an interview with Rebecca Gomperts

Choice by Mail

With Roe v. Wade under threat, abortion rights in the US are facing their greatest challenge yet. Enter the Dutch doctor who has opened a new front with safe medication on demand.

January 11, 2022

Sue Halpern

How Republicans Became Anti-Choice

These days, the litmus test for Republican politicians and judges is opposition to abortion. This was not always the case.

November 8, 2018 issue

Jean-Louis Trintignant and Romy Schneider in Alain Cavalier’s Le Combat dans l’île, 1962

“A festive display of Venetian lanterns suddenly bursts into flame. The architect berates the children for lighting a bonfire in the midst of a dry forest. A sickly boy contemplates a ‘devouring fire’ as he surveys a large box of matches and later lights just such a conflagration in a crumbling tower full of hay in an attempt to trap the architect.”

— James Quandt: A Camera Light as a Pen

June 23, 2022

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Bill Spindle

On the Grid in Leisang

With every village in India electrified, the country’s challenge will be to meet growing energy demand with renewable sources. But can it afford to give up fossil fuels?

June 22, 2022

Madeleine Schwartz

Generation Mélenchon

A new alliance is attempting to revive the French left by bringing candidates from a range of parties under a single banner.

June 18, 2022

Victoria Baena

Altars of Novelty and Profit

Xavier Giannoli’s new adaptation of Balzac’s Lost Illusions follows an aspiring poet in post-Revolutionary Paris and his precarious alliance with an unruly press.

June 16, 2022

Free from the Archives

Edmund White: Portrait of a Sissy

“His brothers had hoped Eton would make a man of Howard Sturgis, but the plan came to nothing. George Santayana praised his ‘inimitable honest mixture of effeminacy and courage, sensibility and wit, mockery and devoted love.’”