JFK Assassination: The Final Secrets JFK Assassination: The Final Secrets
The release of the John F. Kennedy papers sets a standard for transparency that must also be applied to the current administration.
Mar 21, 2025 / Peter Kornbluh
How White-Collar Criminals Plundered a Brooklyn Neighborhood How White-Collar Criminals Plundered a Brooklyn Neighborhood
Stacy Horn’s Killing Fields documents how East New York was ransacked by the real estate industry and abandoned by the city in the process.
Mar 20, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Kristen Martin
America Needs a New Free Speech Movement America Needs a New Free Speech Movement
Donald Trump is showing us what an unaccountable class of corporate decision-makers looks like—and it looks like a lot of fear, and a terrible loss of freedom.
Mar 19, 2025 / Zephyr Teachout
How the American Left Became Conservative How the American Left Became Conservative
Against the radical, if reactionary, experiment run from the White House, everyone from Democratic leaders in Congress to MSNBC hosts have turned to the defense of institutions.
Mar 18, 2025 / Michael Kazin
Trump Took Over the Kennedy Center, but Silencing the Arts Will Not Be So Easy Trump Took Over the Kennedy Center, but Silencing the Arts Will Not Be So Easy
Our last best hope for sharing, shaping, and wrangling over independent ideas may turn out to be America’s scrappy and disparate arts spaces—if they can hang on financially.
Mar 18, 2025 / Alisa Solomon
Why “The Living Mountain” Endures Why “The Living Mountain” Endures
Nan Shepard’s classic of nature writing and memoir is an education in how to reorient one's attention to a landscape and its lifeforms, human and nonhuman.
Mar 13, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Jenny Odell
Andrée Blouin’s Revolutionary Lives Andrée Blouin’s Revolutionary Lives
The African political leader’s autobiography, My Country, Africa, also offers a larger story of empire, oppression, and resistance on the continent.
Mar 12, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Bill Fletcher Jr.
The B-Sides of the “Golden Record,” Track Eleven: “How Will You Begin?” The B-Sides of the “Golden Record,” Track Eleven: “How Will You Begin?”
Mar 11, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Sumita Chakraborty
The Making of a Cold War Spy The Making of a Cold War Spy
The life and work of Frank Wisner, one of the CIA’s founding officers, offers us a portrait of American intelligence’s excesses.
Mar 11, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Adam Hochschild