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Timothy Garton Ash

Ukraine in Our Future

Ukraine faces extraordinary challenges, but it also presents a challenge for Europe—and a great opportunity.

February 23, 2023 issue

Vanessa Barbara

Brazil at the Crossroads

Lula’s election comes as a relief to many Brazilians, but in this historically violent and unequal country, a void in the democratic field endures.

February 23, 2023 issue

Ursula Lindsey

Rape and Resistance in Egypt

A new book recounts the heroics of activists who organized to protect women from sexual violence during the Egyptian revolution and to assert their right to participate in the country’s political life.

February 23, 2023 issue

Linda Greenhouse

Victimhood and Vengeance

The contemporary rise of Christian nationalism in the US is a reactionary response to the country’s liberalization over the past half-century.

February 9, 2023 issue

Fred Kaplan

Putin’s Miscalculation

After two decades of reforming its armed forces, Russia expected a lightning victory in Ukraine, but the ill-starred invasion has revealed their deficiencies.

February 9, 2023 issue

Ian Frazier

Grim Reapers

Mega-agriculture is destroying the Corn Belt and the Central Valley, which the country’s food system depends on. Can midsize farms survive to save it?

February 9, 2023 issue

Jonathan Mingle

No Smoke, No Fire

Despite the gas lobby’s best efforts, Americans are waking up to the health impacts of gas stoves. There’s no going back.

February 1, 2023

Max Rivlin-Nadler

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Eric Adams’s involuntary hospitalization plan was the culmination of a year spent demonizing those on the lowest rung of New York City’s ladder.

January 18, 2023

On Voting

Darryl Pinckney

Georgia’s Battle Over the Ballot

The New Georgia Project has been working for years on getting blacks to register and vote, but it must find ways to overcome the state’s long and complicated history of voter suppression.

November 24, 2022 issue

John Paul Stevens

The Right to Vote: A Dissent

How the Supreme Court got it wrong

August 15, 2013 issue

David Cole

How Voting Rights Are Being Rigged

We are committed in theory to the principle of “one person, one vote,” but in practice our nation has exploited and tolerated deep, structural racial oppression, from slavery to Jim Crow to today’s racial profiling, residential and educational segregation, and red-lining.

October 27, 2016 issue

Garry Wills

‘New Votuhs’

Americans have a history of discouraging parts of the populace from voting. Jesse Jackson registered them.

August 18, 1988 issue

The Latest

Tim Judah

Reconstructing Ukraine

Optimists and pessimists alike have anxiously begun to weigh the country’s prospects after the war is over.

January 11, 2023

Alexander Burns

Making the Senate Work for Democrats

The very structure of the US Senate tilts it toward Republican rule. The Democrats hold the chamber now—what can they do to move their agenda forward?

January 19, 2023 issue

Fintan O’Toole

Dress Rehearsal

Trump’s attempt almost two years ago to undermine the 2020 election reads today like a blueprint drawn for a future autocrat.

January 19, 2023 issue

Tim Judah

Ukraine’s Volunteers

Even more impressive than Ukraine’s will to fight is the vast network of citizens who are supporting the armed forces and helping those in need of food and supplies.

January 19, 2023 issue

Sophie Neiman

Fear and Oil in Uganda

Its backers claim that the East African Crude Oil Pipeline will be a financial boon for Uganda, but families along its route claim that they have been inadequately compensated for their lost land, and activists opposing its construction have been harassed and arrested.

January 19, 2023 issue

Michael C. Dorf

Court v. Chatbot

In a recent experiment, chatGPT showed a more developed moral sense than the Supreme Court’s current conservative supermajority.

December 26, 2022

Alice Driver

Working in Their Sleep

Meatpacking workers in Arkansas, grieving loved ones lost to Covid and struggling to pay medical bills, are organizing for justice from their employer.

December 23, 2022

Kim Phillips-Fein

‘My High-Income Earners’

Eric Adams’s austere fiscal policy seems designed to reassure the wealthy that they will not have to pay their share of New York’s bills.

December 20, 2022

Ursula Lindsey

‘Focus on the Football’

This year’s World Cup in Qatar has become both a referendum on its host’s human rights record and a space for competing gestures of solidarity.

December 9, 2022

Sherrilyn Ifill

When Diversity Matters

During October’s marathon argument in a pair of affirmative action cases, the most racially diverse Supreme Court in US history debated the value of diversity.

January 19, 2023 issue