To a Friend Returning to Aleppo To a Friend Returning to Aleppo
We opened a bottle of wine, summoned mountains overlooking ancient cities, & cities, those pits of unease, & we left your mother’s illness alone—your mother, who insists yo…
May 3, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Zeina Hashem Beck
Yes, the Theocrats on the Court Really Are Going to Overturn “Roe v. Wade” Yes, the Theocrats on the Court Really Are Going to Overturn “Roe v. Wade”
If you thought they were joking, you weren’t paying attention.
May 3, 2022 / Elie Mystal
The US Must End Its Economic War Against Venezuela The US Must End Its Economic War Against Venezuela
Even the Venezuelan opposition wants Washington to ease its sanctions regime.
May 2, 2022 / James North
A Tale of Two Bulldozers A Tale of Two Bulldozers
What India’s demolition of Muslim homes reveals about the India-Israel relationship.
May 2, 2022 / Pranay Somayajula
The Here and Now of the American Left The Here and Now of the American Left
As students traveled home after YDSA’s winter conference, the future was still an open question, but their goal was clear.
May 2, 2022 / StudentNation / Zurie Pope
The Climate Movement in Its Own Way The Climate Movement in Its Own Way
A straightforward “price on carbon” was once thought appealing to left and right alike. It is now abjured by both.
May 2, 2022 / Charles Komanoff
Me Too and the Not Me Novel Me Too and the Not Me Novel
Julia May Jonas’s new novel is a study of a campus scandal and a woman caught in the middle of it.
May 2, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Laura Marsh
The Ambitious and Overstuffed World of Hanya Yanagihara The Ambitious and Overstuffed World of Hanya Yanagihara
To Paradise attempts to break out of the common insularity of contemporary fiction, but in doing so it often ends up focusing more on the author.
May 2, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Tope Folarin
What Is Left of History? What Is Left of History?
Joan Scott’s On the Judgment of History asks us to imagine the past without the idea of progress. But what gets left out in the process?
May 2, 2022 / Books & the Arts / David A. Bell