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In 2011, as an anxious Republican from Utah, I fly with my husband and nine-month-old son to Majuro Atoll, the capital of the Marshall Islan...

Times are bad, which means, by the perverse logic of American capitalism, stock markets and speculative investments are flourishing. Bitcoi...

On January 20, workers will disinfect every inch of the White House complex to prepare it for the new administration. While they’re doing th...

Missouri Senator Josh Hawley announced on Wednesday that he would take the courageous step of trying to overthrow an American election. When...

At the close of 2020, it’s hard to think of another year in living memory that has forced such a radical rethinking of our politics and soci...

In 2021, every state will use the results of the 2020 census to redraw the maps of American political power. Some states give independent co...

In an address on Monday afternoon, Joe Biden offered a bleak preview of winter. “We need to be honest,” the president-elect said. “The next...

The story of the pandemic is also a story about debt. One recent survey, conducted in October, found that more than a quarter of respondents...

Tzeporah Berman has some words of warning for climate advocates elated that Donald Trump will no longer be president: Don’t do what Canadian...

Even before the 2020 election cycle, centrist Democrats had a habit of portraying leftists and progressives as unflinching ideologues imposi...

In his 2011 book, The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama says, “The problem of creating modern political institutions has been des...

Never in living memory has late December been so welcome; 2020, the year that lasted centuries, is nearly done. A lot of us didn’t make it....

The pandemic has devastated wide swaths of the U.S. economy, causing more than 22 million job losses and about 25 percent of small business...

Ahmet Altan, one of Turkey’s most skillful historical novelists, lives in solitary confinement in a cell four meters long, at Silivri Prison...

President Trump says he wants most Americans to receive $2,000 checks from the federal government. So does the Democratic-led House of Repre...

In my speculative fiction course this fall, my students identified a place and time we referred to as Dystopia TM, a sort of abstracted post...

When Laura Browning was pregnant for the first time, she knew what she wanted from her birth experience. She wanted a home birth with a midw...

The Paris Agreement, which celebrated its fifth birthday on December 12, is among the most remarkable diplomatic achievements in world histo...

“I think Facebook is hurting people at scale,” said a software engineer when he left the company in the summer. “I know that I have blood on...

For so many of us, the person of the year is Nothing. The thing that killed mom or laid out the elementary school teacher was Nothing. Nobod...

Unless he overthrows the republic in the next 23 days, President Trump carried out his last two major official acts over the past week. Ther...

On May 5, 2017, the French political scene was upended by what became known as MacronLeaks, a cache of more than 21,000 emails hacked from...

If you speak with people who have longknown Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff—the Democratic candidates hopingto flip Georgia’s two...

Even as America hits low ebb with an out-of-control pandemic and staggering economic pain, there is, at least, the comfort that the nation c...