ICE wants it both ways: to broadcast its might in spectacular shows of force, but to do so anonymously.

The still-reverberating consequences of U.S. foreign policy ...

Writing in Washington Monthly in 1974, future White House speechwriter James Fallows agreed that novelists had earned their ...

In the state’s twisted logic, being a victim of violence is reason for deportation.

Political judgment takes place within political time. And political time is less a matter of chronology than of genre. What kind of moment are we living through? Is our system of government undergoing ...

In Beirut, we start our days with the latest litany of places and people hit overnight, a deluge of stories and images: buildings targeted, cars struck on highways, families wiped out. Evacuation ...

Iraq remains a country with deep wounds of neocolonialism and camouflaged ruination. Its unions and revolutionary parties have long lost their capacity to mobilize. For some of those living in liminal ...

In his 1964 speech “Communication and Reality,” Malcolm X said: “I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don’t call it violence when it’s self-defense, I call it intelligence.” Earlier that ...

This essay appears in print in Thinking in a Pandemic. Recent history tells us a lot about how epidemics unfold, how outbreaks spread, and how they are controlled. We also know a good deal about ...