Continuing her education under bombardment, displacement, and shortages was never easy, but it became a conscious decision.

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Donald Trump during a meeting in the Cabinet Room at the White House on March 26, 2026. After weeks of bombing Iranian ...

A jury finds big tech liable for programming addictive features into platforms—and that’s basically the business model for ...

Now an undeclared, unauthorized, unpopular, and unconstitutional war of aggression against Iran has spread like wildfire ...

The president is experiencing the Iran War almost entirely through misleading video clips—and that’s very bad news for all of us.

For years, the national conversation about affordability has focused on a handful of large coastal cities. New York City, San ...