David Cole When Rights Went Right Is the American conception of constitutional rights too absolute? April 21, 2022 issue
Benjamin Nathans Bureaucrat’s Honor Three memoirs by Trump administration officials reveal the integrity and moral discipline of the so-called deep state in the face of corruption and philistinism. April 21, 2022 issue
Jackson Lears The Forgotten Crime of War Itself In his new book, Samuel Moyn argues that efforts to humanize war with smarter weaponry or sanctify it with moral cant have obscured the task of making peace the first goal of foreign policy. April 21, 2022 issue
Fred Kaplan ‘A Bridge Too Far’ Even the most ardent advocates of NATO expansion after the implosion of the USSR realized that it had limits—and one of those limits was Ukraine. April 7, 2022 issue
Jerry Brown Washington’s Crackpot Realism Framing the China threat as irredeemably antagonistic misses the reality that in order to survive, both countries must cooperate as well as compete. March 24, 2022 issue
Laurence H. Tribe Politicians in Robes Why does Stephen Breyer continue to insist that the Supreme Court is apolitical? March 10, 2022 issue
Jacob Heilbrunn The Hawks Ascending Russia’s war on Ukraine has opened up a new front in Washington’s foreign policy elite, mobilizing veterans of the cold war and Iraq. Especially on the right, a fierce fight is in prospect. March 14, 2022
Jonathan Stevenson How Trump Sabotaged Ukraine Even as he promoted a fiction of Kyiv’s interference in US politics, the president was busy meddling himself. What his own adviser called a “drug deal” paved Putin’s way. March 11, 2022
Francesca Mari The Housing Vultures The investors who exploited the 2008 financial crisis are dictating the bailout of this one. June 11, 2020 issue
Gabriel M. Schivone America’s Eviction Epidemic Across the country, millions of people are facing eviction as protections in place for the pandemic have lapsed. September 16, 2020
Roberta Brandes Gratz How NYC Is Zoning Out the Human Scale This is a New York story only for now. Upzonings and transfers of newly created air rights are occurring in cities around the country. When it comes to real estate, New York City may lead the way, but others follow in time. December 30, 2019
Michael Greenberg Tenants Under Siege: Inside New York City’s Housing Crisis New York City is in the throes of a humanitarian emergency. The tide of homelessness is only the most visible symptom. August 17, 2017 issue
Hari Kunzru Socialists on the Knife-Edge From early utopian communities to the leftist resurgence today, the history of American socialism is deeper than its meager successes. August 18, 2022 issue
Fintan O’Toole The Irish Lesson If the purpose of abortion bans is to actually reduce the rate at which women terminate pregnancies, the Irish experience shows how utterly ineffectual they are. August 18, 2022 issue
Mark Danner We’re in an Emergency—Act Like It! At a time when the threat of authoritarianism is rising, Democrats have a duty to make crystal clear to voters what is at stake in the November elections. August 18, 2022 issue
Ian Bassin The Attorney General’s Choice Merrick Garland’s job in weighing a Trump indictment is not to heal the nation. July 22, 2022
David Cole Egregiously Wrong In several of the term’s most controversial cases, the Court’s new majority applied originalism to disastrous effect. August 18, 2022 issue
Robert Kuttner Free Markets, Besieged Citizens Why did Democratic presidents embrace an economic credo that annihilated their own public philosophy and its appeal to the electorate? July 21, 2022 issue
Liza Batkin Ruling by Fear The Supreme Court’s conservative justices paint a dark portrait of society, danger lurking in every shadow, to justify overturning a New York gun control law. June 25, 2022
Duncan Hosie The Remaking of the Second Amendment The Supreme Court’s expanding interpretation of the Second Amendment threatens longstanding democratic authority to enact gun safety measures. June 10, 2022
Scott W. Stern Dire Straits Toxic Debt, Josiah Rector’s history of Detroit’s struggles for clean air and water, argues that municipal debt and austerity have furthered an ongoing environmental catastrophe. June 23, 2022 issue
