America has been burdened with the unresolved issues of a man driven by his poorly disguised embarrassment at, and emasculation by, the utter failure of the wars he fought in. Hegseth speaks during a ...

Adam Szetela’s That Book Is Dangerous! examines the emergence of a new job in publishing—secondary readers who comb through books for possible offenses.

A federal district court struck down the state’s new congressional map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. Demonstrators hold signs in support of Black voting rights outside the Supreme Court ...

Rob Weissman of Public Citizen explains some of the key lawsuits challenging Trump, and Ben Tarnoff traces Bill Gates from software to philanthropy to the world of Jeffrey Epstein. Jon Wiener US ...

Danny and Derek welcome to the show John Fugelsang, author of Separation of Church and Hate, to talk about the rise and influence of right-wing Christianity in the United States. Daniel Bessner and ...

Hawkish rhetoric from the national security establishment isn’t grappling with the complex challenges posed by China’s rise.

Any expansion of the alleged peace agreement would lock the Middle East into endless apartheid, despotism, and militarism.

Pierre Guyotat has suffered that ambivalent fate haunting all great writers: to become more mythologized than read.

It goes without saying that the proposed 250-foot-tall triumphal arch (one foot for every year the United States has existed!) is absurd and tacky. Modeled on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, it boasts ...

Mattia Filice’s Driver, a poetic novel about train conductors in France, offers an empathetic vision of working for the public.

When ordinary Americans are forced to skip meals to afford healthcare, it’s vital that the Democratic Party resist retreating ...

I knew, largely due to my Instagram algorithm, that off-brand GLP-1s were becoming more widely accessible, and using them was ...