Al-Shifa Hospital itself has suffered endless wounds. Gaza’s Ministry of Health managed to rehabilitate parts of the hospital ...

Zhang Yueran’s novel Women, Seated—a take on the upstairs, downstairs drama—examines class conflict among the Chinese upper ...

The V-Dem Institute, the world’s chronicler of democracy and autocracy, has determined that the United States is no longer “a ...

Universities are raising their tuition, offering fewer classes, and axing extracurricular programs to compensate for the dip ...

How many pro-democracy Substack authors over-focus on gloom and doom and ignore organizing, and who’s bucking that trend.

A new “forever war”—with an ever-increasing likelihood of American troops on the ground—may very well be upon us. As we’ve ...

English Literature student from Gaza. For these medical students in Gaza, completing their studies was an act of defiance. Mar 27, 2026 / Esraa Abo Qamar ...

In this week’s Elie v. US, our justice correspondent explores Trump’s stunning incompetence. Plus: baseball is back—for now.

The No Kings movement has, from its beginnings, recognized the ways in which Trump’s authoritarian overreach mirrors what the authors of the Declaration of Independence identified as King George III’s ...

Naked gibbon.

Despite his constant declarations of victory, the truth about this conflict is clear.

This Saturday, millions of Americans and people all over the world will gather under the slogan “No Kings.” The previous two No Kings rallies, held last June and October, were the largest single-day ...