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‘Reality Rebellion’

By doubling down on Trump’s Big Lie that the election was stolen, Republicans are making their base angrier, more radical, and more likely to turn to violence.

July 1, 2021 issue

Delphine Schrank

Myanmar’s Other Government

June 7, 2021

Fintan O’Toole

The King of Little England

Boris Johnson, unlike Trump, does not want never-ending disarray. The difficulty is that, having delivered him a string of political successes, Brexit will not go away.

June 10, 2021 issue

Jessica T. Mathews

Losing No Time

In his first hundred days President Biden has been bold, decisive, and willing to take risks in his foreign policy judgments, but his early mistakes on Iran and Taiwan may have dangerous consequences.

May 27, 2021 issue

Rachel Nolan

‘I’ve Lost Everything to the Beast’

Formed in Los Angeles by refugees fleeing US-backed violence in El Salvador, MS-13 has wreaked havoc in Central America.

May 13, 2021 issue

Thomas Rogers

Welcome to Germany

Since Angela Merkel admitted 1.2 million refugees in 2015 and 2016, the dire predictions about their impact on the country have not materialized.

April 29, 2021 issue

Robert Kuttner

Dividends of a Just Economy

What is keeping the government from acting on behalf of its citizens?

April 29, 2021 issue

Howard W. French

Can America Remain Preeminent?

The global influence of the US is threatened by the potentially chaotic unraveling of a political, security, and economic architecture that has structured the world for the past seventy or so years.

April 29, 2021 issue

The Latest

Jelani Cobb

A Warning Ignored

American society did exactly what the Kerner Commission on the urban riots of the mid-1960s advised against, and fifty years later reaped the consequences it predicted.

August 19, 2021 issue

Annette Gordon-Reed

The Color Line

W.E.B. Du Bois’s exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition offered him a chance to present a “graphical narrative” of the dramatic gains made by Black Americans since the end of slavery.

August 19, 2021 issue

Steven Simon

How Can We Neutralize the Militias?

The threat of violence from domestic far-right extremists calls for a measured and well-coordinated response from law enforcement and intelligence services.

August 19, 2021 issue

Anastasia Edel

What the US Could Learn from the USSR

Getting into a good school is a baffling process riddled with inequity. For all its abuses, one thing about the Soviet system I grew up in was its broad access to higher education.

July 25, 2021

Muhammad Idrees Ahmad

Syrians Die in Western Media Darkness

When the world stopped paying attention to Syria’s civil war and its refugees, it wasn’t just the regime that welcomed impunity. A European government took the invitation, too.

July 20, 2021

Alma Guillermoprieto

Confrontation in Colombia

Protesters have demanded not just the rejection of a tax bill but a whole new society.

July 22, 2021 issue

Fred Kaplan

Why Did We Invade Iraq?

The most complete account we are likely to get of the deceptions and duplicities that led to war leaves some crucial mysteries unsolved.

July 22, 2021 issue

Adam Hochschild

All-American Vigilantes

When the US entered World War I, right-wing organizations seized the opportunity to round up leftists, labor organizers, and suspected draft dodgers.

July 22, 2021 issue

Elizabeth Spiers

Southern Baptists’ Losing Faith

Hardliners want to take over the convention and impose their ultra-conservative values—but they’re fighting over a shrinking franchise. Prosperity gospel megachurches are winning market share.

June 25, 2021

Jill Filipovic

US Abortion Politics in Conflict Zones

From Rwanda and Bosnia to Myanmar and Tigray, rape is now recognized as a genocidal crime. Yet its survivors rarely receive the health care they need—thanks to America’s deadly culture war.

June 16, 2021