Democracy depends on the free exchange of ideas. Help sustain it with a tax-deductible donation today. This is the first installment of a new bimonthly column by David Austin Walsh. “A moment of ...

Mutual aid is the brigade of volunteers mucking out basements after a flood, the church basement food pantry staffed by ...

How neoliberals fell in love with “human nature”—the glue that still unites the divergent factions of the new right.

From Trump to Milei, the far right is betting that spectacles of revenge will compensate for steep economic sacrifice.

They planned to join the annual protests there on the anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco student massacre, long the point of ...

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers,” Dick the Butcher declares in Shakespeare’s Henry VI: Part 2. Trump understands that for authoritarianism to prevail, the first thing to do is to ...

Every ruling power tells itself stories to justify its rule. Nobody is the villain in their own history. Professed good intentions and humane principles are a constant. Even Heinrich Himmler, in ...

In the midst of every crisis, the cliché goes, lies a great opportunity. And there has been no greater crisis for Israel than October 7, the country’s most devastating security failure under its most ...

The Trump administration has yet to announce a policy on Afghanistan. For that, at least, we must be thankful. There is no basis on which to offer any recommendations: that would require shared goals ...