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May 24, 2023
Can the British Labour Party Win Power Without a Left Wing?
Despite being far ahead of the ruling Conservatives in the polls, Labour’s leadership seems determined to purge its way to electability.
Rachel Shabi
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May 5, 2023
“To Hell With Kings!”
Why are Americans being encouraged to celebrate another country’s coronation? Don’t we have enough problems with our own oligarchs?
John Nichols
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April 24, 2023
What the UK’s Arrest of a French Publisher Means for Public Intellectuals the World Over
The detention of Ernest Moret raises urgent questions about British authorities’ targeting public intellectuals at the request of other nations.
Natasha Hakimi Zapata
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April 18, 2023
The Ghosts of the British Empire
In his new book Empireland, Sathnam Sanghera examines how the British Empire’s pieties and fictions persist to this day.
Priya Satia
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February 16, 2023
On the Banning of Black History in Florida, and “The Crown”
On this week’s episode of Start Making Sense, Robin Kelley discusses the attacks on Black Studies, and Gary Younge comments on The Crown on Netflix.
Jon Wiener and Start Making Sense
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January 23, 2023
The Strange Thrills of “The Crown”
While the infighting and personal lives of the British royals is boring, their desperate struggle to protect the monarchy makes for fine television.
Gary Younge
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November 29, 2022
A United Front Is Needed to Fight the Threat to Journalism Posed by the Assange Prosecution
The New York Times and major European publications recognize the US Department of Justice’s pursuit of Julian Assange as an attack on press freedom. Now, say it louder.
John Nichols
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November 18, 2022
America’s Political Crisis Goes Beyond Trump
Given the startling proliferation of illiberal and antidemocratic tendencies in the American polity, how should we rate the health of our own liberal democracy?
Andrew J. Bacevich
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November 15, 2022
Kiribati’s Disorder in the Court
The Pacific island nation’s attempted deportation of an Australian-born judge shows how the decolonizing world’s reliance on foreign-born judges threatens nascent democracies.
Pete McKenzie
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October 31, 2022
How a Royal Visit Helped Weaken the Crown’s Grip on the Caribbean
William and Kate’s springtime tour didn’t spark the movement for independence and reparations in the Caribbean, but it did stoke it.
Michela Moscufo