Feature

How Freddie Mac Helps Private Equity Profit From Tenant Misery

Overloaded with debt, with maintenance and repairs cut back to the bone, tenants are being bled dry to make millions for speculators—with a crucial assist from the Federal Home Loa...

Eileen Markey

The Western Media Is Whitewashing the Azov Battalion

Before Russia invaded Ukraine, these fighters were neo-Nazis. They still are.

Lev Golinkin

The Democrat Taking Back Wisconsin

Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Ben Wikler has taken the party’s operation out of the backrooms and into the streets.

John Nichols

Pakistani Police Are Making Protesters Disappear

While reporting on the protests against the arrest of former prime minister Imran Khan, I was attacked and held without cause. I’m not the only one.

Hasan Ali

Books & the Arts

The Enduring Grift of the Washington Operator

A new book argues that D.C. became a swamp in the Trump years, but like any company town it has always been a hive of influence peddling, self-dealing, and graft.

Chris Lehmann

Perhat Tursun and the Plight of Uyghurs in Xinjiang

In The Backstreets, the novelist and poet documents the centuries of dislocation imposed on the Uyghur people

Yangyang Cheng

The Swiss Village That Made Kropotkin an Anarchist

Cyril Schäublin’s Unrest may be the most orderly movie about anarchists ever made.

J. Hoberman