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Sarah Perry’s Melmoth Is a Gothic Tale With a Conscience
Sarah Perry’s new book, Melmoth, is an extravagant mille-feuille of dread, disquiet, and fear. Her first novel, After Me Comes the Flood (2014), was an avant-garde tale of a man who drives out of a...
View ArticleThe Rise of Sucker-Punch Hurricanes
On Monday morning, a mild tropical storm in the Pacific Ocean heading toward Mexico’s western coast suddenly transformed into one the strongest tropical cyclones ever to threaten the region. Hurricane...
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How Dark Money Groups Keep Their Donors Hidden
Should nonprofit groups that buy ads supporting or attacking political candidates be required to disclose their donors? The answer would seem obvious. But in the post–Citizens United landscape—where...
View ArticleThe Reality Behind ‘Migrant Caravans’
Seven thousand Central American migrants are traveling toward the United States. President Trump wants Mexico to stop them. “I must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught.” Trump...
View ArticleDon’t Count on Republicans to Punish Saudi Arabia
President Donald Trump has stuck by Saudi Arabia through every twist of the saga of Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post columnist and Virginia resident who was murdered in the Saudi embassy in Turkey...
View ArticleHow Colleges Fail Young Trump Supporters
Earlier this month, on the eve of a federal trial over Harvard’s use of race in admissions, the university’s president invoked the predominant defense of affirmative action: It enhances education for...
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A War Without Civilian Deaths?
The killing of other human beings in war makes graphic an abiding moral dilemma: You might try to make an evil less outrageous, or you might try to get rid of it altogether—but it is not clear that it...
View ArticleHow Trump Is Warping the Debate on Trans Rights
This week, The New York Times obtained a draft memo leaked from the Department of Health and Human Services. It argues that the government needs to establish a binary definition of gender, particularly...
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America’s Relentless Suppression of Black Voters
Brian Kemp currently holds two significant positions in Georgia politics, and he has been in the news for both of them. As the Republican nominee for governor, he is engaged in a fierce battle with...
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Can State Courts Save the Liberal Agenda?
No matter when, or how, Donald Trump leaves office, he will have dramatically remade the federal judiciary. His administration has struggled to achieve its goals on health care, the border, and...
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A Super Typhoon Is Pummeling the United States
A record-breaking hurricane slams into a United States territory. The U.S. government is supposed to respond to the damage. But the government is overstretched, and the island is remote. Amid poor...
View ArticleThe Essential Difference Between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren
Senator Bernie Sanders wants to be president—he made that much clear with his energized campaign in 2016. Senator Elizabeth Warren does, too, as several recent moves show. They both have widespread...
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Nihilist Nation
If you think Donald Trump is wrecking the republic and wonder why so many Americans can’t see that he is, you may be asking the wrong question. What if they see the same thing you do and happen to like...
View ArticleThe Growing Inequality of Civil Rights in Trump’s America
It’s often said that the arc of history bends toward justice, but the arc of American history seems to bounce toward it instead. During Reconstruction in the 1860s and 1870s, the federal government...
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Trump’s Extreme (and Extremely Boring) U.S. Tour
Donald Trump thinks he’s a rock star. Touring the country in support of Republican candidates, the president puffed out his chest and bragged about his ability to draw a crowd. “Do you know how many...
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A Cut Above
Diane Williams seeks to stun, in something near the literal sense of the word. Acts of accidental violence bookend her story “The Nature of the Miracle,” which is only four paragraphs long. A bottle of...
View ArticleSheldon Whitehouse’s Frustrating, Illogical Remarks on D.C. Statehood
Donald Trump’s presidency has sparked a rolling national discussion about the long-term vitality of America’s democratic system. Democrats are more than happy to talk about how his rise to power...
View ArticleThe BBC’s Best Drama in Years Comes to Netflix
On a visit to the U.K. this September I found a nation gripped by a BBC series called Bodyguard. But I had to fly back to New York, livid and thwarted, before the final episode aired. Thankfully, the...
View ArticleIs the Democratic Party Progressive Enough for Muslims?
The relationship between American Muslims and the Democratic Party is often described as a marriage of convenience. One of the best illustrations of this was the appearance of Khizr and Ghazala Khan at...
View ArticleThe Moral Dilemma of Jamal Khashoggi’s Killing
In 1919, famed German theorist Max Weber gave the lecture that would become his classic “Politics as a Vocation” essay to a group of idealistic left-wing students in Munich. It was a time of political...
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