Close Attention
An interview with Frederick Wiseman.
An interview with Frederick Wiseman.
An interview with Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.
Our day and night at the Pentagon, like Faust’s encounter with the Earth Spirit, marked a new awareness of ominous, fearful powers that had to be dealt with before our dreams of freedom and self-fulfillment could be made real.
An influx of gifted, charismatic, politically active stars have willed the WNBA into a genuine sporting attraction. Can they leverage the sport’s growing popularity into a better deal for players?
Progressive activists face an increasingly hostile legal environment. What strategies can they pursue?
An interview with Osita Nwanevu, author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding.
Thomas Kinkade’s paintings show conservatives a world they have already won.
What distinguishes Zohran Mamdani’s socialism is not its aims. It’s his willingness to take seriously the problem of how to get there.
An interview with Jeffrey Wasserstrom, author of The Milk Tea Alliance.
The task of this moment is to build a broad front that can resist authoritarianism. The recent protests are early skirmishes in the fight that will be needed.
To understand everything that happens in Latin America in relation to the United States is to brush aside inconvenient details in favor of a morality play.
The late Uruguayan president had an unmatched connection with popular sectors and the courage of his enduring convictions.
Trump’s National Garden of American Heroes will be a monument to randomness and a lazy, perhaps unthinking, version of the ideology he is supposed to despise.
The U.S. government is activating a suite of algorithmic surveillance tools, developed in concert with major tech companies, to monitor and criminalize immigrants’ speech.
An interview with Quinn Slobodian, the author of Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right.