In Lebanon, Israel seems to be following the same logic it deployed in Gaza: emptying out entire areas through what amounts to ethnic cleansing.

Iraq remains a country with deep wounds of neocolonialism and camouflaged ruination. Its unions and revolutionary parties have long lost their capacity to mobilize. For some of those living in liminal ...

Writing in Washington Monthly in 1974, future White House speechwriter James Fallows agreed that novelists had earned their ...

The assault marks a dramatic escalation of Trump’s increasingly belligerent foreign policy, despite his having campaigned against war and military adventurism. “I’m not going to start wars,” Trump ...

Lauren Collins’s takedown in The New Yorker is headlined “A Forty-Million-Dollar Journey into the Void.” The subtitle of a videotaped panel in the New York Times’ opinion section is “Watching a First ...

When Plato was an infant, bees alighted on his lips and, nestling there, set about making honey. His parents had placed him, sleeping, on the summit of a mountain while they paid tribute to the gods, ...

Political judgment takes place within political time. And political time is less a matter of chronology than of genre. What kind of moment are we living through? Is our system of government undergoing ...

Amid deficit-allergic neoliberal politics, everyone can agree on the appeal of budgetary savings. So now it is not just liberals going after mass incarceration. A group of brand-name conservatives, ...

More than a century before Zohran Mamdani declared he wanted a New York City network of grocery stores “focused on keeping prices low,” socialists in Spain were furious about a network of grocery ...

In their new book, Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue that American liberals have ironically succumbed to a conservative worldview, in the original sense of “conservative.” Instead of ...

As even its harshest critics concede, neoliberalism is hard to pin down. In broad terms, it denotes a preference for markets over government, economic incentives over social or cultural norms, and ...