How did we allow this to happen?

Surf’s up!

Kristi Kremed.

This week’s “Elie v. US” explores the authoritarian threat beneath Trump’s bonuses for military families. Plus, a case for getting rid of the Second Amendment.

And yet, that’s what the Supreme Court appears prepared to do.

A growing number of US residents have lived through more than one massacre.

The Chinese writer’s fiction details how the country transformed on an intimate level after the Cultural Revolution.

Maria Reva’s Endling is at once a postmodern caper and an autobiographical work that explores how ordinary people navigate a catastrophe.

A new translation vividly renders the sadly evergreen influence of the Erich Maria Remarque’s World War I novel.

Donald Trump is sowing division in the European Union, even as he calls on it to spend more on defense.

A dramatic shift to the extreme right threatens the future—and past—for human rights and accountability.

My family’s olive trees have stood in Gaza for decades. Despite genocide, drought, pollution, toxic mines, uprooting, bulldozing, and burning, they’re still here—and so are we.