The Forty-Fourth Year of the Reagan Administration
What would it sound like if the Democratic elite said the quiet part out loud?
November 7, 2024 issue
Fragile Unity in South Africa
Short of a majority for the first time in three decades, the African National Congress now has to govern with its longtime rival. Will the alliance hold?
October 23, 2024
Hitler’s Enablers
The complicity of conservative nationalists in the Nazi takeover of Germany in 1933 offers disturbing parallels to the current American political situation.
November 7, 2024 issue
A Living Requiem
In her new installation, the sculptor Nour Mobarak transforms the hymns of the powerful into the complaints of the weak.
October 25, 2024
A ‘Primal Paper Forest’
In the first decade of his career, the artist CF seemed to be reinventing comics from first principles, assembling strange new worlds only to smash them into pieces.
October 24, 2024
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