The saga of the Klamath provokes a more fundamental, yet often ignored, set of questions: What is a river for? Irrigation?

How neoliberals fell in love with “human nature”—the glue that still unites the divergent factions of the new right.

Inside Project 2025 Backed by the Heritage Foundation, the initiative seeks to undermine longstanding safeguards against abuses of executive power.

This essay is featured in our Winter 2025 issue, Trump’s Return. The lineup at Donald Trump’s second inaugural was a veritable billionaire’s row, with the heaviest hitters of Big Tech out in full ...

Using a variety of ploys to manufacture doubt, a whole industry of science-for-hire experts helps corporations put profits over public health and safety.

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Donald J. Trump The tragic reascent of Trump is not an anomaly to democracy but its fatal flaw.

The Parenting Panic Contrary to both far right and mainstream center-left, there’s no epidemic of chosen childlessness.

A conversation with Wendy Brown on the U.S. presidential election, the exclusions liberal democracy is built on, and why we must aim at more than restoring its mythical former splendor.

What Turned Poor White Counties Red? Arlie Russell Hochschild blames an emotional blindness to facts, erasing the Democrats’ deep failings.

Would Kamala Harris’s foreign policy depart from Biden’s? Clues from the work of her national security advisor, Philip Gordon.

Over the past fifteen years of observing tech development, I’ve found that terms I once used like “cyber-utopianism,” “Internet-centrism,” and “techno-solutionism” fail to fully capture Big Tech’s ...

More important, even the most generous attempts to protect the political and socioeconomic rights of individuals leave some duties of individuals to their own states and all humanity out of account, ...