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Getting Out the Fear Vote

As Trump improvises at his rallies, his grim imaginings of a mongrelized, crime-ridden country are transformed into unfalsifiable myths.

November 7, 2024 issue

Sue Halpern

The Coming Tech Autocracy

A functional government, committed to safeguarding its citizens, might be keen to create a regulatory agency for AI or pass comprehensive legislation, but we in the United States do not have such a government.

November 7, 2024 issue

Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson

The Peril of Civil Breakdown

The US political situation radiates instability. How likely is extremist violence in the aftermath of the election?

November 7, 2024 issue

Christine Henneberg

Calculated Risks

Since the overturning of Roe, it has once again become a subversive act to provide medical care for women as though their lives are as valuable as men’s.

November 7, 2024 issue

Patricia J. Williams

Expanding the Vocabulary

With great discipline and sanity, Kamala Harris has been navigating a minefield of Trumpian insults and attempts to debase her.

November 7, 2024 issue

Jessica T. Mathews

The Race That Can’t Be Won

A new nuclear arms race is beginning. It will be far more dangerous than the last one.

October 17, 2024 issue

Laurence H. Tribe

Where Freedom Ends

Law can oppress as easily as it can liberate, and it is the everyday life we lead at our kitchen tables and in our bedrooms that is most dangerously threatened by a return of Trump to power.

November 7, 2024 issue

Aryeh Neier

Torture in Israel’s Prisons

Recent reports on the conditions in Israeli detention facilities describe them as sites of systematic abuse.

October 17, 2024 issue

Election 2024

Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson

The Peril of Civil Breakdown

The US political situation radiates instability. How likely is extremist violence in the aftermath of the election?

November 7, 2024 issue

Mark Danner

Getting Out the Fear Vote

As Trump improvises at his rallies, his grim imaginings of a mongrelized, crime-ridden country are transformed into unfalsifiable myths.

November 7, 2024 issue

Samuel Earle

The Problems with Polls

Political polling’s greatest achievement is its complete co-opting of our understanding of public opinion, which we can no longer imagine without it.

October 17, 2024 issue

Joseph O’Neill

Bring Back the Fight!

In recent weeks, Harris and Walz have replaced a dynamic movement with a meat-and-potatoes campaign. That needs to change.

October 3, 2024

Election 2024: A Symposium

Jonathan Lethem

The Forty-Fourth Year of the Reagan Administration

What would it sound like if the Democratic elite said the quiet part out loud?

November 7, 2024 issue

Anne Enright

Words Not Said

On the undecided voter

November 7, 2024 issue

Matthew Desmond

How to Solve the Housing Crisis

What the next president can do

November 7, 2024 issue

Pankaj Mishra

The Flailing Superpower

The spectacle of America on the global stage

November 7, 2024 issue

Jacqueline Rose

Antigone’s Law

Who can make the world a better place?

November 7, 2024 issue

Elaine Blair

Stop Infantilizing Moderates!

Democrats need a stronger message for the uncommitted voter.

November 7, 2024 issue

Marilynne Robinson

‘The Joke Turns Fearful Earnest’

On taking democracy seriously

November 7, 2024 issue

Nathaniel Rich

Silent Spring

Why aren’t the candidates talking about climate change?

November 7, 2024 issue

Susan Faludi

Laugh-In

On the joyful Kamala Harris and the mirthless Donald Trump

November 7, 2024 issue

Mark Lilla

Another Change Election

On the need to preserve our institutions

November 7, 2024 issue

The Latest

Jan-Werner Müller

‘Destruction Through Inclusion’

The far right’s ambiguous triumph in recent Austrian elections holds lessons for Europe as a whole.

December 19, 2024

Caitlin L. Chandler

At the Gates of Fortress Europe

The story of Sajjad Mohammedhasan, who sought asylum but received a year in Lithuania’s border prisons.

December 17, 2024

Piper French

The Reunited

The Biden administration has spent years reunifying families separated during Trump’s first term—but as his second approaches, they find themselves vulnerable again.

December 11, 2024

James A. Goldston and Aryeh Neier

The ICC: Myths and Realities

The most prominent arguments against the court’s recent arrest warrants for Israeli leaders fall apart under scrutiny.

December 6, 2024

Joshua Hammer

Making Germany Hate Again

In Look Away, Jacob Kushner draws a disturbing portrait of the white supremacist subculture that took hold across eastern Germany in the 1990s and now is making gains at the ballot box.

December 19, 2024 issue

Charles Glass

Lebanon’s Year of Living Ambiguously

After the Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah decided to draw Lebanon into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, tit-for-tat bombings along the border with Israel overshadowed the country’s political and economic plight.

December 19, 2024 issue