This essay appears in our Spring 2025 issue. Subscribe to get a copy. In August 1936, after a failed coup against the Second Spanish Republic, Francisco Franco’s Nationalist forces seized the city of ...

To deliver plentiful housing and clean energy, we have to get the story right about what’s standing in the way.

The failure of formal checks and balances to significantly stymie Trump is painfully clear. It is also not unprecedented. As Lisa Miller illustrates, checks and balances have been routinely weaponized ...

In June 1982, as employment in the U.S. auto industry continued to plummet, two white autoworkers, one of them recently laid off, started harassing a Chinese American man named Vincent Chin in a ...

This essay is featured in our Spring 2025 issue. Subscribe to get a copy. Over the last year and a half, American universities have rapidly destroyed the right to protest on campus. At the request of ...

Every ruling power tells itself stories to justify its rule. Nobody is the villain in their own history. Professed good intentions and humane principles are a constant. Even Heinrich Himmler, in ...

Trump’s inauguration ushers in uncertainty and terror for immigrants and advocacy groups as they brace for the massive immigration crackdown he has already ...

Rare is the CEO today who, in the face of public concern about a potentially dangerous product, says, “Let’s hire the best scientists to figure out if the problem is real and then, if it is, stop ...

From 2016 to 2020 Donald J. Trump served as forty-fifth president of the United States; now, he has secured his reelection and will assume office once again as president number forty-seven. It was ...

My grandmother was a good Catholic who didn’t go to college and had eight children. Her oldest child went to college and had one child, me. Your own family probably fits this pattern. In a decline ...