Argument
Whose Anti-Imperialism?
An open letter in solidarity with Iran’s political prisoners drew vitriolic condemnation from parts of the anti-imperialist left. Yet much of the criticism the signatories faced was either mistaken or myopic.
A Rush To Build Settlements
The current Israeli government is the most extreme in the country’s history, and also one of its most durable. But polling numbers consistently show that Netanyahu’s coalition might not win the Oct. 27 election. Fear of losing is driving a frenzy of settlement activity in the West Bank.
The Cockroach Movement’s Careful Silence Over Hindutva
India’s Cockroach Janata Party has won international acclaim, but faces growing criticism at home over its refusal to explicitly confront anti-Muslim, majoritarian politics.
Target Trump: The Specter of Iran’s Revenge
The distinction between the private and the public, the personal and the national, has broken down in Trump’s second term. The president’s personal psychology and how he understands his own interests and well-being are now critical factors in how the U.S. conducts itself in the world.
Counting the Books in America’s Federal Prisons
Federal penitentiaries would not say how many books they hold, so a biographer of Malcolm X spent months assembling the count himself from handbooks, emails and a prison messaging service.
The Odyssey Wars
Nolan's “Odyssey” extracts a universal message from Homer's ancient text and laments a world where rules have collapsed and might makes right. It is a thrilling spectacle and a repudiation of the right’s culture wars.
Making Sense of Latin America’s Shift to the Right
It has been an annus mirabilis for the Latin American right, with electoral victories in country after country — and possibly more to come. What explains this rightward shift across the region — a mirror image of the “pink tide” that swept the left into power over the last quarter-century?