The apocalyptic scale of death and destruction lays bare the contradictions at the heart of the liberal international order.

The U.S.- and Israel-backed campaign positioning Reza Pahlavi, son of the Shah, for regime change in Iran.

The best guarantee on the professionalism, honesty, and effectiveness of its delivery is to let international journalists ...

The United States has never been “a nation of immigrants.” It has always been a settler state with a core of descendants from the original colonial settlers, that is, primarily Anglo-Saxons, Scots, ...

Critics of the 1619 Project obscure a longstanding debate within the field of U.S. history over the antislavery implications of the American Revolution.

April 13, 2023 This essay appears in print in Is Equal Opportunity Enough?. In June 2020 Donald Trump tweeted, in characteristically hyperbolic style, that his administration had “done more for the ...

Sovereign states have been wrongly mythologized as the natural unit of political order.

The World of Edward Said His milieu was one of global, and specifically Palestinian, anticolonial struggle.

What the Health Care Debate Still Gets Wrong Contrary to the Obama administration, U.S. health care spending isn’t high because Americans use too much medicine. The real culprit is our fragmented and ...

The United States has long supported the repression of Latin American land defenders. The tactics it exported are coming to the Atlanta forest.

The celebration of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste reflects the continued priority of elite preferences over the needs and struggles of ordinary people.