In this week’s Elie v. US, our justice correspondent dissects Ken Burns’s American Revolution documentary. Plus: the DNC’s autopsy report.

Neoclassical revivalists had to sell their souls.

Organizers trying to get the iconic store to ban Israeli goods believe in the power of tangible collective action at a moment when doing so feels increasingly difficult.

Adam Szetela’s That Book Is Dangerous! examines the emergence of a new job in publishing—secondary readers who comb through books for possible offenses.

The French writer’s fiction engages in a radical egalitarian project aimed at negating the right’s nihilism.

Mattia Filice’s Driver, a poetic novel about train conductors in France, offers an empathetic vision of working for the public.

Hawkish rhetoric from the national security establishment isn’t grappling with the complex challenges posed by China’s rise.

No American president has ever attacked Somalis with the persistence and at the rate of President Donald Trump.

After decades of covert operations, the CIA director has given the Cubans an overt ultimatum for change on the island.