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May 6, 2020
V-E Day Was 75 Years Ago. How Relevant Is It Today?
The dark cloud of World War II has stopped recent US leaders from seeing the world as it actually is.
Andrew J. Bacevich
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May 1, 2020
The Pandemic in Our Minds
A classic horror movie reveals how authoritarianism and scapegoating flourish during a plague.
Jeet Heer
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April 10, 2020
Philip Roth’s Dystopia Hits Awfully Close to Home
HBO’s adaption of The Plot Against America is set in an alternative reality with the same anxieties as our own.
Jeet Heer
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April 9, 2020
How the Coronavirus Is Testing Putin’s Leadership—and the System He Created
Many of Russia’s official reactions are similar to those in the United States.
Stephen F. Cohen
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March 18, 2020
The Mobilization That Must Start Now
With the coronavirus bearing down on our economy, we must deploy all our resources now to survive—so that one day we may thrive.
James K. Galbraith
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March 16, 2020
Citizen Gorbachev Speaks
If war is the consequence of a policy, then get rid of the policy.
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
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February 18, 2020
The Making of France’s Presidential System
Focusing on the tensions between top-down reforms and bottom-up democratic discontent, Herrick Chapman’s new history tells a very different story about postwar France.
Hugo Drochon
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January 6, 2020
The Tiki Bar Resurgence of the Trump Era
It’s tacky and willfully inauthentic. Of course it’s popular again.
Jackson Arn
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August 27, 2019
In a Major Shift, South Korea Defies Its Alliance With Japan
Trade restrictions, an end to intelligence sharing, heated rhetoric—it’s all rooted in Japanese war crimes, papered over by a 1965 treaty in which Washington played a hidden hand.
Tim Shorrock
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August 23, 2019
‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ Is a Science Fiction Film
Far from wallowing in nostalgia, Tarantino is using alternative history to critique conventional Hollywood endings.
Jeet Heer