The best guarantee on the professionalism, honesty, and effectiveness of its delivery is to let international journalists ...

For Robert Jay Lifton, treating veterans’ trauma was an antiwar tool. How did PTSD, the diagnosis he helped create, come to accommodate state violence?

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To deliver plentiful housing and clean energy, we have to get the story right about what’s standing in the way.

This essay is featured in our Winter 2025 issue, Trump’s Return. The lineup at Donald Trump’s second inaugural was a veritable billionaire’s row, with the heaviest hitters of Big Tech out in full ...

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Donald J. Trump The tragic reascent of Trump is not an anomaly to democracy but its fatal flaw.

The Parenting Panic Contrary to both far right and mainstream center-left, there’s no epidemic of chosen childlessness.

A conversation with Wendy Brown on the U.S. presidential election, the exclusions liberal democracy is built on, and why we must aim at more than restoring its mythical former splendor.

More important, even the most generous attempts to protect the political and socioeconomic rights of individuals leave some duties of individuals to their own states and all humanity out of account, ...

Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans We live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s.

As many have argued, the high stakes of this “new oil” call for radically new forms of governance. A central concern in this effort—as much as a matter of power as of equity—is the question of ...

October 02, 2023 There have been no higher-stakes public investments recently than those the federal government made in biomedical research and production to make COVID-19 vaccines. Many commentators, ...