Politics

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Owning the Asphalt
Joseph Giovannini praises the protestors who took back the streets from the Landlord-in-Chief.
Joseph GiovanniniJun 18, 2020
- Politics
Two Decades of Futility: On Erik Edstrom’s “Un-American: A Soldier’s Reckoning of Our Longest War”
A soldier’s journey through Afghanistan reveals dismal truths about the United States.
Sally McGraneJun 14, 2020
- Memoir & Essay
- Politics
Declassified: An Interview with Jessica Pearce Rotondi
Meredith Maran talks to writer Jessica Pearce Rotondi about unresolved grief, hidden political histories, and her debut book, “What We Inherit.”
Meredith MaranJun 12, 2020
Conflict Twists
Ellen Elias-Bursac, who lived in Yugoslavia in the 1970 and ’80s, examines three moments that capture the slipperiness of the feelings aroused by conflict.
Ellen Elias-BursacJun 12, 2020
- Around the World
- Politics
Who Killed American Global Power?
Is Trump breaking the liberal international order or were other forces already at work?
Erik D’AmatoJun 11, 2020
- Around the World
- Politics
A Voice from America’s Black Belt: On Bakari Sellers’s “My Vanishing Country”
A moving memoir from an insightful commentator on race and politics in America.
Carla BellJun 10, 2020
- Memoir & Essay
- Politics
A Different Civil War in the Southwest
A riveting new book shows how the Civil War in the West was both strategically important and lacking in the moral contours of the broader war.
Sam KleinerJun 10, 2020
- History
- Politics
Thriving in Isolation and Beyond: The Empowering Poetry of Vasyl Stus
The work of Ukrainian poet Vasyl Stus, who spent over a decade in Soviet prisons, is newly relevant in our time of self-isolation.
Bohdan TokarskyJun 9, 2020
The Drone Dilemma
A critique of American drone warfare contains vigorous and damning information about its abuses but also contains a huge blind spot.
Michael Scott MooreJun 5, 2020
- Politics
Energy Policy: Will Special Interest Groups Short-Circuit Our Future?
Daniel Wuebben argues that Leah Stokes’s “Short Circuiting Policy” establishes her as a voice to heed on energy policy and the transition to renewables.
Daniel WuebbenJun 4, 2020
- Politics
- Science & Technology
Histories of Violence: Why We Should All Read Malcolm X Today
Brad Evans speaks with Kehinde Andrews, whose latest book is “Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century.”
Brad EvansJun 1, 2020
- Histories of Violence
- Politics
The Mother of African Cinema: Sarah Maldoror
Remembering Sarah Maldoror, mother of African cinema.
Celluloid Liberation FrontMay 31, 2020