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What Do You Have to Lose? Mark Danner on the Forever War
Mark Danner delivers eloquent and brutally direct assessments of the war policies of both Bush and Obama.
Politics
"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins
Confronting the Intolerable
Brad Evans talks to artist Gottfried Helnwein for the "Histories of Violence" series.
Violence: The Director’s Eye
Brad Evans talks to director Oliver Stone for the first part of the "Histories of Violence" series.
A Call to Mourn: Democratic Action and the Confrontation of American Racism
Jonathon S. Kahn reviews David W. McIvor’s “Mourning in America.”
Civility: When Mere is More
Susan McWilliams reviews Teresa Bejan’s “Mere Civility.”
Thinking About Hillary, at This Late Hour
Lorrie Moore looks back on Hillary Clinton and her complicated legacy.
Lost Voices from the Indian Ocean
Nile Green on Francis R. Bradley's "Forging Islamic Power and Place:The Legacy of Shaykh Daud bin ’Abd Allah al-Fatani in Mecca and Southeast Asia."
Outlandish Assertions: Response to Joel Whitney
The Moral Improbability of the Trump Campaign
John Paul Rollert considers what Trump’s unpoetic campaign bodes for his term in office.
Apology: On Jonathan Chait’s Obama
Emmett Rensin reviews Jonathan Chait’s “Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail.”
What King Learned from Gandhi
Priyanka Kumar tells us what these two 20th-century luminaries shared.
Lost in Trumpslation: An Interview with Bérengère Viennot
Robert Zaretsky interviews Bérengère Viennot, who is tasked with translating Donald Trump’s speeches into French, broken syntax and all.
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