Subscribers Only The “Donroe” Doctrine Is Dangerous
Trump’s brazen violation of international law destabilizes global security.
Print Magazine
February 2026 Issue
Cover art by: Edward Sorel
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Editorial
Subscribers Only Listen to Bad Bunny: Abolish Act 22
An egregious tax-evasion loophole is inflaming the displacement crisis in Puerto Rico.
Subscribers Only Donald Trump’s Nuclear Delusions
The president wants to resume nuclear testing. Is he a warmonger or just an idiot?
On Cora Weiss (1934-2025) and Peace
Cora Weiss died in December at age 91. She never stopped campaigning to save the world from nuclear destruction.
Chile at the Crossroads
A dramatic shift to the extreme right threatens the future—and past—for human rights and accountability.
Subscribers Only Want to Understand California’s Water Crisis? Look to the Pistachio.
A conversation with the documentarians Rowan Wernham and Yasha Levine about their film Pistachio War, a look at how one family came to control much of the state’s water.
Column
Subscribers Only The Line, a Saudi Megaproject, Is Dead
It was always doomed to unravel, but the firms who lent their name to this folly should be held accountable.
Subscribers Only The Farmland Revolt
America’s farmers are fuming over Trump’s tariffs. Democrats need to channel their anger.
Subscribers Only Trump’s Slash-and-Burn Economy Is Devastating Black Women
His administration is hitting them with “discriminate harm.”
Feature
Subscribers Only Hell Cats vs. Hegseth
Meet the military women who are fighting to win purple districts for the Democrats and put the defense secretary on notice.
Subscribers Only Giving Black Youth a Reason to Live
Cincinnati teens are waging an uphill battle to solve the mental health crisis.
Subscribers Only How a Reactionary Peruvian Movement Went Multinational
Parents’-rights crusaders seeking to impose their Christian nationalist vision on the United States took their playbook from South America.
Subscribers Only The Future of the Fourth Estate
As major media capitulated to Trump this past year, student journalists held the powerful to account—both on campus and beyond.
Adelaide Parker and Fatimah Azeem and Tareq AlSourani and William Liang
Subscribers Only How a French City Kept Its Soccer Team Working Class
Olympique de Marseille shows that if fans organize, a team can fight racism, keep its matches affordable, and maintain a deep connection to the city.
Subscribers Only The Strange Story of the Famed Anti-Fascist Lament “First They Came…”
In his celebrated mea culpa, the German pastor Martin Niemöller blamed his failure to speak out against the Nazis on indifference. Was that the whole reason?
Books & the Arts
John Updike, Letter Writer
A brilliant prose stylist, confident, amiable, and wonderfully lucid when talking about other people’s problems, Updike rarely confessed or confronted his own.
How Has the Idea of Revolution Changed?
A new history examines the long history of a radical and sometimes conservative concept.
Subscribers Only Is It Possible for Speech to Ever Be Too Free?
A new history explores the political limits as well as possibilities of freedom of speech.
Subscribers Only How Taiwan Became the Chipmaker for the World
A new book tells the story of the island-nation’s transformation into a central hub for technological development and manufacturing.
Subscribers Only The Endless Scoops of Seymour Hersh
Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus’s Cover-Up explores the life and times of one of America’s greatest investigative reporters.
Subscribers Only “The Paper” and the Return of the Cubicle Comedy
The new show from the creators of The Office reminds us that their comedic style does now work in every “workplace in the world.”
