Trump Get What Trump Want Trump Get What Trump Want
May 14, 2019 / Tom Tomorrow
There Are Rasputins Everywhere You Look There Are Rasputins Everywhere You Look
A new book looks at a wide-ranging set of manipulative Rasputin-like figures in culture, sports, and politics to understand who chases power and why.
May 13, 2019 / Kyle Paoletta
A Reporter’s Long, Strange Trip Into the Darkest Parts of the American Mind A Reporter’s Long, Strange Trip Into the Darkest Parts of the American Mind
In Republic of Lies, Anna Merlan documents our age of conspiracy.
May 9, 2019 / Talia Lavin
The Cartoon Opposition The Cartoon Opposition
It’s always easier to defeat a caricature.
May 7, 2019 / Tom Tomorrow
One of World’s Wealthiest Educational Institutions May Close Its Renowned Press One of World’s Wealthiest Educational Institutions May Close Its Renowned Press
Stanford University Press is at risk—even though it costs scarcely more than the college football coach’s raise.
May 6, 2019 / Michael Rothberg
Time’s Up for Capitalism. But What Comes Next? Time’s Up for Capitalism. But What Comes Next?
Every day, we help decide how the future will unfold. But how do we cast ballots for a democracy that doesn’t yet exist?
May 6, 2019 / Astra Taylor
Zelensky’s Victory Zelensky’s Victory
A brash comedian will lead Ukraine. He won the presidential vote hands down. Among world leaders, this may be a first, Although our leader’s often called a clown.
May 2, 2019 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The President Tweets His Millionth Lie The President Tweets His Millionth Lie
May 2, 2019 / Peter Kuper
How Jayson Greene Wrote One of the Year’s Most Affecting Memoirs How Jayson Greene Wrote One of the Year’s Most Affecting Memoirs
Once More We Saw Stars, which follows his family after the death of his daughter Greta, is at once an elegy, a raw outcry of rage, and a meditation on relearning to live and work i...
May 2, 2019 / Nathan Goldman
Carlos Bulosan’s 1946 Novel About Filipino Migrant Workers Is Still Groundbreaking Carlos Bulosan’s 1946 Novel About Filipino Migrant Workers Is Still Groundbreaking
When we read a book like America Is in the Heart, we have the chance to be not just readers of American history’s horrors, but its witnesses and inheritors.
May 1, 2019 / Elaine Castillo