Gayl Jones’s Epic of Liberation Gayl Jones’s Epic of Liberation
In her new novel, Jones offers a story of slavery and freedom in the Americas.
Nov 29, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Farah Jasmine Griffin
Giving Josephine Baker a Hero’s Grave Won’t Bury the Truth… Giving Josephine Baker a Hero’s Grave Won’t Bury the Truth…
About France’s republican racism.
Nov 29, 2021 / Feature / Gary Younge
Europe’s War on Woke Europe’s War on Woke
Why elites across the Atlantic are freaking out about the concept of structural racism.
Nov 29, 2021 / Feature / James McAuley
Health Care Reform’s History of Utter Failure Health Care Reform’s History of Utter Failure
Cohn shows how repeated failures by Democrats and Republicans to get a decent policy through our 18th-century constitutional structure led to the strategy that produced the Afforda...
Nov 28, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Ryan Cooper
John Rawls and Liberalism’s Selective Conscience John Rawls and Liberalism’s Selective Conscience
With its doctrine of fairness, A Theory of Justice transformed political philosophy. But what did it leave out?
Nov 27, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Olúfémi O. Táíwò
Denis Villeneuve’s Humanistic “Dune” Denis Villeneuve’s Humanistic “Dune”
His adaptation was the first to understand the scale—both intimate and epic—the sci-fi novel required to translate to film.
Nov 27, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Erin Schwartz
No Accounts No Accounts
The new colossus. Scenes from our series “The Greater Quiet” for the week of November 22.
Nov 26, 2021 / Steve Brodner
Pramila Jayapal Has Made Her Case to Be Pelosi’s Successor Pramila Jayapal Has Made Her Case to Be Pelosi’s Successor
The chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus could be in line to step into the Democratic leader’s shoes.
Nov 26, 2021 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
When Real Life Feels More Like Science Fiction When Real Life Feels More Like Science Fiction
As almost happened in The War of the Worlds, we could kiss this planet goodbye—and if that’s not science fiction transformed into fact of the first order, what is?
Nov 26, 2021 / Tom Engelhardt