A Reckoning Inside the Domestic-Violence Movement

Domestic abuse presents a deadly threat to millions of people across America. But as concerns about police misconduct grow, feminists are reconsidering the costs of criminalization...

Zoë Carpenter

Today Marks the Start of a Truly Terrifying Supreme Court Term

The upcoming term always threatened to inflict serious harm on our nation. Then Ruth Bader Ginsburg died.

Elie Mystal

Who Will Save the News?

Victor Pickard’s new book argues that without a public intervention American journalism faces a dire future.

Anya Schiffrin

Richard Hofstadter’s Discontents

Why did the historian come to fear the very movements he once would have celebrated?

Jeet Heer

Yaa Gyasi’s Family Chronicle

At the center of Gyasi's new novel are the unspoken bonds and tensions between mothers and daughters.

Lovia Gyarkye

The Supreme Court’s War on Equality

In Supreme Inequality, Adam Cohen offers a damning indictment o...

Randall Kennedy

Nicholson Baker’s Maddening Search for the Truth

Denied access to files about the use of biological weapons during the Cold War, the novelist transformed his new book Charlie Savage

America’s Unending Struggle Between Oligarchy and Democracy

A new history charts the three-centuries long contest between elites seeking to uphold a racial and economic order that benefits them alone and the forces of democracy seeking to d...

Manisha Sinha

Claudia Rankine’s Dialogue With America

In Just Us, the poet offers a searing assessment of racism and loneliness in today’s America. But while she’s pessimistic about the present, she’s also hopeful about the f...

Elias Rodriques

After Abolition

Kyle Carrero Lopez