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A migrant child looking through the US-Mexico border fence, Tijuana, November 2018

The Lie of American Asylum

Three new books offer searing portraits of the people affected by family separations and the criminalization of asylum in the Trump era.

November 5, 2020 issue

Ruth Ben-Ghiat

The Right’s War on Universities

Authoritarians from Mussolini onward have seen colleges as holdouts of liberal democracy—and attacked them relentlessly.

October 15, 2020

First responders at the Riverside University Health Systems Medical Center, Moreno Valley, California, May 15, 2020

Timothy Snyder

What Ails America

Although I did not understand this then, I had a severe infection in my liver. I was in a condition known as sepsis; death was close.

September 3, 2020

Eric Klinenberg

A Disaster 100 Years in the Making

Disasters have the power to reveal who we are, what we value, what we’re willing—and unwilling—to protect.

October 22, 2020 issue

Walter M. Shaub Jr.

Ransacking the Republic

Trump and his Republican wrecking crew are ripping out the floorboards under the government ethics program.

July 2, 2020 issue

Michael Pollan

The Sickness in Our Food Supply

The pandemic is making the case not only for a different food system but for a radically different diet as well.

June 11, 2020 issue

Federal agents guarding a rear entrance to the US Courthouse, Portland, Oregon, July 31, 2020

Mattathias Schwartz

The FBI Team Sent to Portland

How the FBI responds to a threat of violent extremism—from the left, rather than the right—could become an urgent issue around Election Day.

October 8, 2020

Donald Trump attending the opening of his Taj Mahal casino with his sister Maryanne and brother Robert, Atlantic City, New Jersey, April 1990

Andrea Bernstein

Pattern of Deception

Trump’s business model, identical to his model of exercising presidential power, is, in the words of Mary Trump’s complaint, to “enrich himself at the expense of everyone else.”

October 5, 2020

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Lili Loofbourow

The Loss of Shared Grief

November 19, 2020 issue

Mark Danner

The Con He Rode In On

Why do people hardly even talk about all the car plants Donald Trump has brought to Michigan?

November 19, 2020 issue

Ali Winston

A Portrait of the Fascist as a Young Man

Robert Rundo’s career—nasty, brutish, and short—is a case study in the dangerous evolution of American far-right militancy.

October 22, 2020

Corey Robin

The Gonzo Constitutionalism of the American Right

October 21, 2020

Sławomir Sierakowski

The Women’s March of Belarus

Just when liberal democracy looked on the point of collapse, a popular movement is resurrecting it in a country where it had seemed impossible.

October 20, 2020

Jane McAlevey

Getting Out of Tight Corners

October 19, 2020

Elizabeth Tsurkov

The Syrian Mercenaries Abroad

The nearly decade-long civil war has created an entire generation of young men whose only marketable skill is fighting.

October 16, 2020

Linda Greenhouse

The Supreme Court We Need

November 5, 2020 issue

Darryl Pinckney

A Society on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

November 5, 2020 issue

David W. Blight

Republicans: The New Confederacy

November 5, 2020 issue

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