Nadia Abu El-Haj ‘The Eye of the Beholder’ Administrators at Columbia and other US universities have been cracking down on student protest against the war in Gaza—even as right-wing politicians demand they go further. December 24, 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
Garry Wills What Friends Are For For decades Justice Clarence Thomas has received lavish gifts from Republican megadonor Harlan Crow. What’s Crow been getting in return? April 11, 2023
Manisha Sinha The Case for a Third Reconstruction The enduring lesson of American history is that the republic is always in danger when white supremacist sedition and violence escape justice. February 3, 2021
Peter Beinart The Lincoln Project’s Israel-Palestine Error The Never Trump political consultants are deluded if they think that working for Benjamin Netanyahu’s main opponent in Israel’s upcoming election serves democracy and the rule of law. January 27, 2021
Sarah Churchwell Lincoln’s Warning Against Mobocracy “There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law,” declared the man who would be America’s sixteenth president. Only justice can make a more perfect Union. January 15, 2021
Peter Beinart How Trump Lost If he’d governed as he ran in 2016, as an economic populist, he would likely have been reelected. Instead, he reverted to the same old Republican playbook. November 7, 2020
Jay Rosen The Asymmetric War for Truth The Republican Party—now committed to minoritarian rule, not democracy—needs fictions to sustain its power. And that means a collision with honest journalism. November 1, 2020
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