Last week, after ordering the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani—who was, according to the Guardian, “widely seen as the second most powerful figure in Iran,” behind Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali ...

CAMP DAVID, MD (AP)—Speaking to reporters on Saturday, President Mary Beth Cadwallader pledged to sign a landmark anti-reanimation bill into law on Tuesday after the House and Senate passed it last ...

Eric Blanc on organizing the left, Robin D. G. Kelley on the defund movement, Astra Taylor on the data center backlash, and more.

What if she found out that that she’d raised the kind of girl who “necked and petted and flew to New York,” whose “pants were wet with the sticky white filth of desire”? “She’s not my daughter,” Plath ...

Aaron Neber is a PhD student in philosophy at the New School of Social Research.

“Renoir himself claimed that a film director should have the arrogance to believe that he can change the world but the modesty to believe that if he succeeds in deeply moving four people, it’s a ...

Sometime late in the 1960s, in the countryside of Vermont, my sister and I saw in the evening sky three round lights, apparently far-off, perfectly still and unchanging, each the size of a thumbnail ...

This is a response to Donna Murch’s review of Michael Javen Fortner’s book Black Silent Majority. My book Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment has generated ...

Gay critic Leo Bersani, who died in February, was known for his sharp opening sentences. In a career spanning eighteen books and numerous essays, the Berkeley professor, who passed away in February at ...

“Forget the social workers. Forget the shrinks. Forget the ACLU. That’s the way it really is.” —Joe Arpaio I was interviewing Joe Arpaio in 1995 for a book I had planned to write on chain gangs. I ...

Listen to a reading of this essay, courtesy of curio.io: On the afternoon of April 4, 1968, James Baldwin was relaxing by the pool with actor Billy Dee Williams in a rented house in Palm Springs.

Jack Berger is a graduate student at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.