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Looming Questions for the Democrats

Their responsibility these next two years will be to continue, without apology, on the economic path they’ve been pursuing.

December 22, 2022 issue

Sean Wilentz

The Emancipators’ Vision

Was abolition intended as a perpetuation of slavery by other means?

December 22, 2022 issue

Christopher R. Browning

Adenauer’s Bargain

A new book argues that a delayed reckoning with the Holocaust was necessary for democratization in postwar West Germany.

December 22, 2022 issue

Joseph O’Neill

New York’s Rusty Political Machine

New York’s unique red wave revealed the structural weakness of the state’s Democratic party—and above all its current committee chair.

November 24, 2022

Joshua Leifer

In the House that Bibi Built

With Netanyahu back in power and right-wing religious nationalism at high tide, what remains of Israel’s left will either reinvent itself or vanish.

November 23, 2022

Tim Judah

In Kherson

The retreat of Russian troops from Kherson, leaving the city without power, water, or cell service, closed a long chapter in the war in Ukraine.

November 19, 2022

Maura Ewing

Clemency Under Fire

In Pennsylvania’s tight Senate race, John Fetterman’s commitment to commuting harsh sentences has come under fierce attack from the right.

November 7, 2022

Peter Canby

The Death Squad Dossier

Decades after Guatemala’s long civil war, a chronicle of government kidnapping and disappearance is bringing former officials to trial. Will there be justice for the victims?

December 8, 2022 issue

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

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 Oral Arguments Matter

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.

December 8, 2022

Cristina Florea

Ukraine’s Long Self-Determination

Ukrainians have declared their independence five times—each time, defining their nation anew.

December 7, 2022

Frederic Wehrey

Libya’s Perfect Storm

Climate change has brought a dangerous new dimension to the country’s political strife.

December 3, 2022

Ada Wordsworth

Ukrainian Lessons at the Train Station

A diverse community of volunteers has gathered on the Polish border to assist Ukrainian refugees, but the outlook for Ukrainian refugees already in Europe is often bleak.

December 8, 2022 issue