The Christian right hasn’t always dominated Texas politics. While it claims to represent a deep regional tradition, the state’s modern right-wing evangelicalism is a newer invention — forged in the ...
The historian Frances Stonor Saunders died recently at age 60. Her landmark Who Paid the Piper? pulled back the curtain on postwar CIA funding of Western cultural institutions — despite repeated ...
The Criterion Channel’s Southern Gothic collection gathers a century of films about a region that set out to make its ...
Economist Daron Acemoglu wants liberal democracy to connect with working people’s material interests and political power. His ...
Electricity bills are rising, and data centers are getting the blame. But for 50 years, the American grid absorbed loads this ...
Talk of defending civilizational values looms large in the thinking of Vladimir Putin and his allies. Russia’s elites both ...
US leaders have generally sought to cloak their imperialism with euphemistic rhetoric, but Trump has dropped any pretense ...
Molly Crabapple tells the story of the Jewish Labor Bund, which built a mass socialist movement in the Russian Empire and ...
Americans across the partisan divide seem increasingly fed up with school voucher schemes, which funnel public funds to ...
Who Moves America chronicles the Teamsters’ 2023 near-strike at UPS. It’s a rare and moving portrait of a massive, diverse ...
The question isn’t whether the mainstream economic consensus on inflation is right or wrong. It’s clearly wrong. The question ...
When AI insiders warn that their products could wipe out humanity, they mean that their own work is maximally important and demands unprecedented investment. This extinction fantasy distracts from the ...