The great virtue of Samuel Moyn’s important new book, Gerontocracy in America,is that it takes these issues seriously, ...

Iran, attacked and sanctioned, has turned geography into leverage while serving as an object lesson that restraint may invite ...

The legislation technically prohibited giving information about queer relationships to minors, but it has been used much more ...

Calls to abolish ICE are as old as the agency itself. When it was established in 2003 by President George W. Bush with bipartisan support, ICE was meant to serve as the domestic arm of the U.S.-led ...

While Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro denies that a serious public health crisis is underway, a small municipality an hour up the coast from Rio de Janeiro has instituted a remarkable and effective ...

The 2014 English publication of Capital in the Twenty-First Century made the French economist Thomas Piketty a household name. The bestselling book, and the discussions that surrounded its release, ...

Down a tree-lined street near my grandmother’s house in Tehran is a mosque where locals go to chat, rest, and sometimes even pray. In the back of the mosque, behind a small library, is an office for a ...

Fifty years ago, in July 1965, a social science study with a prosaic title—“The Negro Family: The Case for National Action”—was leaked to the press. Its author was Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a young and ...

What if our talk of fascism were not dominated by the question of analogy? Notwithstanding the changing terrain, talk of fascism has generally stuck to the same groove, asking whether present ...

As even its harshest critics concede, neoliberalism is hard to pin down. In broad terms, it denotes a preference for markets over government, economic incentives over social or cultural norms, and ...

This essay appears in print in The Politics of Care. For many of us, the last few weeks have marked a new phase of our corona-lives—a dark and lonely corridor that stretches before us, no end in sight ...

COVID-19 has exposed the fragility and inequity of the U.S. system of higher education. Decades of state disinvestment coupled with the rise of corporate management techniques has led to skyrocketing ...