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The Past 2 Years Have Left Portland Reeling. What Kind of Recovery Comes Next?

Will efforts to rehabilitate Portland’s brand eclipse the tentative steps taken toward real reform?

Zoë Carpenter

The Gates Foundation Avoids a Reckoning on Race and Power

Can philanthropy decolonize? Only if wealthy donors grapple with the difference between giving away money and actually sharing power.

Tim Schwab

This Supreme Court Term, Conservatives Have One Aim: Stop Progress

During the next nine months, conservatives justices will use their power to attack abortion rights, weaken gun regulations, and rewind the clock to a darker age.

Elie Mystal

Books & the Arts

The Expansive Feminism of Jacqueline Rose

Rose’s latest book, On Violence and On Violence Against Women, is a rigorous and capacious study of contemporary gender politics and solidarity.

Cora Currier

Grace Cho’s Memoir of Food and Empire

Intertwining a personal story of Korean food ways and a family history caught in the midst of violence, Tastes Like War tests the limits, and shows the power, of memoir.

E. Tammy Kim

Was Jimmy Carter an Outlier?

Politicians say things to get elected and then, once in office, do otherwise; that’s politics. But Carter demanded that we grade him on a curve.

Rick Perlstein

Do We Need to Work?

In Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots, anthropologist James Suzman asks whether we might learn to live like our ancestors did—that is, to value ...

Aaron Benanav

Anthony Veasna So’s Portraits of Diaspora

His posthumous collection Afterparties is part of a new wave of writing on the cultural memory and historical traumas of Southeast Asian im...

Larissa Pham

Eric Williams and the Tangled History of Capitalism and Slavery

The historian and politician helped transform how several generations understood 18th- and 19th-century history.

Gerald Horne

Sally Rooney’s Fiction for End Times

In her third novel, Rooney does more than just respond to critics; she surveys the wreckage of modern life.

Tony Tulathimutte