Snapshot: A Disturbing ‘Breakthrough’

Soldiers in New Delhi put on a show for President Barack Obama’s state visit to India. The day before, Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a “breakthrough understanding” that would allow US companies to 
invest billions in India’s civilian nuclear industry—thereby furthering the dangers of global nuclear proliferation. Read More

Manish Swarup

How the Roberts Supreme Court Has Strengthened the Powerful and Screwed Everyone Else

From criminal justice to workers’ and voting rights to campaign finance, it has defied customs that buttress the Court’s legitimacy.

Nan Aron and William Yeomans and Michelle D. Schwartz

What Syriza’s Victory Means for Greece—and for Europe

The election was a triumph for anti-austerity politics and a rejection of corruption. Now comes the hard part.

Maria Margaronis

Fox News: The World’s Comic Relief

Our friends abroad give the network the derision and the mockery it deserves.

Eric Alterman

The Spectacular Incoherence of Race Goes Global

From Ferguson to France, pliable racial categories are used to mark who counts as fully human—and who does not.

Patricia J. Williams

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

Calvin Trillin

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