Is France Finally Reckoning With Its Brutal Past?

Macron's acknowledgement of French torture during the Algerian war was unprecedented—but what comes next?

Karina Piser

Want to Defend Democracy? Start With Your Public Library.

Public libraries are critical within the public sphere and, when fully supported, represent the best of government at work.

Katrina vanden Heuvel

The Fandango Doctrine

On using the arts to restore the amity and goodwill among people on both sides of the US-Mexico border.

Kabir Sehgal

What the Black Dolls Say

These rare survivors of early African-American art can illuminate much about our difficult history.

Elizabeth Pochoda

John Dower in Conversation: Part II

A preeminent scholar on the Pacific War uses WWII-era Japan to examine race and US imperialism today.

Patrick Lawrence

White House Revelations

Calvin Trillin

Puzzle No. 3476

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

The Myth of ‘Liberal Intolerance’

The most significant threats to free speech come from conservatives.

Eric Alterman

How and Why the First Amendment Became a Weapon for the Right

Over the past decade, the Supreme Court has recast free speech and the Constitution’s core principles in order to entrench the power of employers and the wealthy.

Jedediah Purdy

Young Jean Lee’s Domestic Surrealism

In her newest play, Lee offers us a look at the straight white man as a specimen.

Alisa Solomon