The administration is attempting to incapacitate the redistributive and social protective arms of the state, while exploiting its vast bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport.

In the second of two episodes on Elon Musk, Matt and Sam examine key moments in the billionaire's political derangement, his purchase of Twitter, and his role in Trump's second term.

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In the first of two episodes on Elon Musk, Matt and Sam explore the billionaire's fraught adolescence and first years in ...

Zed Books, 2012, 224 pp. The financial crisis of 2007–2008 inspired a shallow but significant revival of Marxist analysis in academic life. A violent upsurge in theory, however, has corresponded to no ...

This article is one in a series of arguments on U.S. history in our summer issue. Barack Obama sought the middle of the road. “It is incontrovertible that race relations have improved significantly in ...

There will surely be turf wars and palace intrigue within the administration, but there is little reason to think that its core figures will fracture in the pursuit of their basic goal: to break the ...

At a teeming intersection of Shenzhen’s Dongmen shopping street, between KFC and McDonald’s, Liu Zhongqiu, twenty-one, sits on a white fold-up chair that looks as if it is about to break and clasps ...

Until 1989, before the start of the armed rebellion against Indian rule, foreign and Indian visitors flocked to the valley. In 1987, according to a government survey, Kashmir welcomed 700,000 tourists ...

Matt and Sam talk to historian Jennifer Burns about the fascinating life, and brutal philosophy, of Ayn Rand. Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ February 10, 2025 Ayn Rand in 1961 (Raimondo ...