The director of an art center in Tehran on life under U.S.-Israeli bombardment.

ICE wants it both ways: to broadcast its might in spectacular shows of force, but to do so anonymously.

Its increasingly contradictory weaponization exposes how little it has ever had to do with the Jews.

The still-reverberating consequences of U.S. foreign policy ...

In the state’s twisted logic, being a victim of violence is reason for deportation.

In Beirut, we start our days with the latest litany of places and people hit overnight, a deluge of stories and images: buildings targeted, cars struck on highways, families wiped out. Evacuation ...

I would like to stage a fight between two different accounts of the current political landscape—what’s been called the “post-truth” era, the infodemic, the end of democracy, or perhaps most accurately ...

The 2014 English publication of Capital in the Twenty-First Century made the French economist Thomas Piketty a household name. The bestselling book, and the discussions that surrounded its release, ...

Writing in Washington Monthly in 1974, future White House speechwriter James Fallows agreed that novelists had earned their keep in American journalism. But “Mary McCarthy’s political writing shows ...

When James Baldwin visited San Francisco in 1963 to film a documentary about U.S. racism, he encountered neighborhoods in turmoil: the city was seizing properties through eminent domain, razing them, ...