The 7,383-Seat Strategy

Taking inspiration from Virginia, Democrats are finally running to win in the states. But will the party make room for a different kind of candidate?

Joan Walsh

Is Net Neutrality the Sleeper Issue for Democrats in 2018?

Across the country, candidates are campaigning on restoring a free and open Internet.

John Nichols

On a Sentence by Fernanda Melchor

Forrest Gander

Sunset Pool

Samuel Amadon

The World of ‘Crime and Punishment’

A new translation captures the painful backdrop of Dostoyevsky’s classic: the poverty, crime, and violence that shaped much of everyday life in 19th-century St. Petersburg.

Jennifer Wilson

Selma and the Unfulfilled Promise of Civil Rights

The city’s 20th-century history not only marked a high point in the civil-rights movement; it also captures why America needs more than sporadic intervention if it is to uproot the...

Elias Rodriques

The Surrealist Grace of Donald Glover’s ‘Atlanta’ 

At any given moment, it can feel like a family drama, a Southern Gothic horror story, and a sketch comedy.

Evan Kindley

Rejjie Snow’s Borderless Music

Dear Annie, the Irish rapper’s studio debut, is a striking picture of international collaboration.

Briana Younger