In the Image of Jonestown In the Image of Jonestown
In our flattened historical imagination, pictures of atrocity and those of progress can coincide in unsettling ways.
Jul 15, 2021 / Feature / Jay Caspian Kang
Are Pro-Choice Catholics Worthy of Communion? Are Pro-Choice Catholics Worthy of Communion?
The backlash over the bishops’ challenge to Biden starts from the wrong premise.
Jun 29, 2021 / Michael F. Pettinger
We Owe It to the World’s Children to Slow Population Growth We Owe It to the World’s Children to Slow Population Growth
Crowding the planet harms younger generations as much as it does the environment.
Jun 24, 2021 / Column / Katha Pollitt
How the Supreme Court Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religious Bigotry How the Supreme Court Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religious Bigotry
The Supreme Court’s decision last week allowing a Catholic foster care agency to discriminate against LGBTQ couples was narrow—but awful.
Jun 21, 2021 / Elie Mystal
Here in Israel, the Perils of a Government of ‘No Politics’ Here in Israel, the Perils of a Government of ‘No Politics’
The country’s new coalition government, whose only common ground is the desire to get rid of Benjamin Netanyahu, might just mark a turning point in Israel’s ability to avoid accoun...
Jun 10, 2021 / Jeff Halper
Recent History Recent History
Reviewing the year, in stitches.
May 25, 2021 / OppArt / India Tresselt
‘Where Are the Moderate Hindus?’ ‘Where Are the Moderate Hindus?’
India is reeling from two deadly viruses: Covid-19 and Hindutva—a century-old far-right political ideology whose founders were directly inspired by Hitler’s Nazism and Italian Fasc...
May 14, 2021 / Sunita Viswanath
Graham Greene’s God Graham Greene’s God
As a new biography shows, the British novelist was always haunted by, and uncertain about, his own faith.
May 4, 2021 / Books & the Arts / John Banville
The Most Righteous Thing Joe Biden Has Done as President The Most Righteous Thing Joe Biden Has Done as President
His decision to label the mass murder of Armenians as “genocide” finally put the US on the right side of an awful chapter in world history.
Apr 27, 2021 / John Nichols
Marx for Our Times Marx for Our Times
A new book explores the social democratic impulses and Jewish origins of Karl Marx.
Apr 19, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Bruce Robbins