Politics

United States International Human Rights Climate Change

Fintan O’Toole

Kamala’s Moment

Kamala Harris’s campaign asks: Who is a normal American now?

September 19, 2024 issue

Claudio Lomnitz

Mexico: Anatomy of a Mass Murder

Marcela Turati’s account of the massacres in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, is arguably the most thorough piece of investigative journalism yet produced about Mexico’s brutal political economy.

September 19, 2024 issue

David Shulman

An ‘Unlawful Presence’

The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel’s occupation of the West Bank is illegal, yet this will do little to reduce the settlers’ savage violence against Palestinians or force Israelis to become conscious of it.

September 19, 2024 issue

William Neuman

Chavismo’s Chokehold

The party of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro maintains a strong hold on state institutions, but it has lost the people’s mandate. Will there be a transfer of power to the opposition candidate, Edmundo González—the true victor of this summer’s election?

September 19, 2024 issue

Charlie Savage

A Terrible Mistake

Steve Coll’s The Achilles Trap recounts the long history of confusions, misconceptions, and miscalculations in the relationship between the US and Iraq, from Saddam Hussein’s rise to power in 1979 to the the American invasion in 2003.

September 19, 2024 issue

Ben Tarnoff

Venture-Backed Trumpism

Why have right-wing ideas found such an eager audience among tech elites during Biden’s presidency?

September 19, 2024 issue

Susan Faludi

All the News That’s Fit to Feel

Amy Chozick’s accounts of her time covering Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign for The New York Times seem to exalt the work of the new girl reporters, who bring their “whole selves” to the story. But is such an emphasis on the chroniclers themselves not a return to the lifestyle precincts of the old “women’s pages”?

August 15, 2024 issue

Geoffrey Wheatcroft

A Tenuous Mandate

Labour’s landslide victory in the British elections was achieved with only a third of the popular vote. Will the new government be able to steer Britain out of crisis after fourteen years of failed Tory policies?

August 15, 2024 issue

Fintan O’Toole on US Politics

Fintan O’Toole

Paradise Lost

In spreading lies about the risks of vaccines, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long played on anxieties about purity and pollution.

September 7, 2023

Fintan O’Toole

A Frame-Up in Georgia

By launching a campaign of lies and harassment against an innocent Georgia election worker, the Trump team proved how much cruelty it was willing to inflict on ordinary people who stood in its way.

August 17, 2023

Fintan O’Toole

Invasion of the Democracy Snatchers

This week’s indictment details how Trump and his co-conspirators tried to destroy American democracy by creating empty replicas of its procedures and values.

August 4, 2023

Fintan O’Toole

The Ultimate Deal

Trump’s hoarding of official secrets is both breathtakingly careless and utterly calculated.

June 10, 2023

Global Migration

Willa Glickman

‘People Are Not a Crisis’

Eric Adams has insisted that his administration is doing its best to house New York’s asylum seekers, but the city’s shortage of shelter space is the result of political choices.

July 23, 2023

Scholastique Mukasonga, translated by Emma Ramadan

Exiles

I recognize in these young people—driven from their homes by war, famine, poverty—an unshakable energy called Hope.

July 11, 2023

Aida Alami

The Land of Dust and Plastic

In Almería, the Moroccan and West African migrant workers who sustain the region’s booming agriculture industry find themselves either neglected or persecuted by the state.

June 24, 2023

John Washington

Journey to the North

Javier Zamora’s retelling of the almost lethal three-thousand-mile journey he made from El Salvador to the US as a child gives the experience of migration extraordinary immediacy.

June 8, 2023 issue

The Latest

Fintan O’Toole

Trump’s Old News

The debate showed that the former president faces a new danger: not that his lies are outlandish but that they are getting stale.

September 13, 2024

Matthew Desmond

A Prophet for the Poor

In order to build a mass movement for economic justice, Reverend William Barber argues, we need to let go of the idea that poverty is an exclusively Black or urban issue.

October 3, 2024 issue

E. Tammy Kim

Duterte’s Cruel Tricks

Patricia Evangelista’s Some People Need Killing is both a reporter’s notebook and a contemporary political history of the Philippines.

October 3, 2024 issue

Tareq Baconi

Living the Nakba

Two recent memoirs tell the story of generations of Palestinian grief and struggle.

October 3, 2024 issue

Fintan O’Toole

Dynamism & Discipline

The excitement that radiated through the Democratic National Convention was the other side of what had until recently been a deep despair.

October 3, 2024 issue

Jan-Werner Müller

‘Make Europe Great Again’

Viktor Orbán’s program has found less support among European politicians than it has among far-right ideologues in the United States, who consider his regime a model for a second Trump administration.

August 20, 2024