Drew Faust on Growing Up in the ’60s Drew Faust on Growing Up in the ’60s
A conversation with Harvard’s first woman president about how she became a civil rights and anti-war activist.
Aug 28, 2023 / Q&A / Jon Wiener
Was the Collapse of US-Russia Relations Inevitable? Was the Collapse of US-Russia Relations Inevitable?
How US hubris and Russian paranoia undermined partnership.
Aug 22, 2023 / Feature / Thomas Graham
Republicans Are Gaslighting Us on Poverty Republicans Are Gaslighting Us on Poverty
Claims that poverty in America has been eliminated, and that “idleness” is the only barrier to a life of middle-class comfort, would be funny—if they weren’t so dangerous.
Aug 21, 2023 / Brad Swanson
The Persistence of American Poverty The Persistence of American Poverty
“We could afford to end poverty,” Matthew Desmond tells us. That we don’t is a choice.
Aug 21, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Marcia Chatelain
Even as the Oppenheimer Film Rights a Historic Wrong, the Memo That Smeared Him Remains Redacted Even as the Oppenheimer Film Rights a Historic Wrong, the Memo That Smeared Him Remains Redacted
The physicist was punished for opposing development of the hydrogen bomb, and for warning about the dangers of nuclear proliferation.
Jul 21, 2023 / Peter Shinkle
“Bidenomics” vs. “Reaganomics” “Bidenomics” vs. “Reaganomics”
What will it take for Biden’s economic agenda to transform the political landscape the way to Reagan’s did?
Jul 21, 2023 / Mike Konczal
Josh Hawley Gets an “F” in American History Josh Hawley Gets an “F” in American History
The senator from Missouri is spreading misinformation about the past in order to put a Christian nationalist spin on the present.
Jul 13, 2023 / John Nichols
The Many Ghosts of Juan de Pareja The Many Ghosts of Juan de Pareja
Through the life of the 17th-century artist, we can find an entangled history of slavery, Black figuration, and art.
Jul 11, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Rachel Hunter Himes
The Other Kennedy Curse The Other Kennedy Curse
Kennedy family mythology is bad history, bad politics—and perhaps as unfair to the living Kennedys as to anyone else.
Henry Kissinger, Elliott Abrams, and the Rot of American Foreign Policy Henry Kissinger, Elliott Abrams, and the Rot of American Foreign Policy
Our bipartisan elite is always willing to forgive war crimes by its made men.
Jul 7, 2023 / Jeet Heer