The Christian right hasn’t always dominated Texas politics. While it claims to represent a deep regional tradition, the state’s modern right-wing evangelicalism is a newer invention — forged in the ...
The historian Frances Stonor Saunders died recently at age 60. Her landmark Who Paid the Piper? pulled back the curtain on postwar CIA funding of Western cultural institutions — despite repeated ...
The Criterion Channel’s Southern Gothic collection gathers a century of films about a region that set out to make its ...
Economist Daron Acemoglu wants liberal democracy to connect with working people’s material interests and political power. His ...
Electricity bills are rising, and data centers are getting the blame. But for 50 years, the American grid absorbed loads this ...
Molly Crabapple tells the story of the Jewish Labor Bund, which built a mass socialist movement in the Russian Empire and ...
The primacy of the dollar is considered one of the pillars of American might, conferring exorbitant financial privileges and ...
Yesterday’s Saxony-Anhalt state election was grim, with the far-right Alternative für Deutschland now close to power for the ...
US leaders have generally sought to cloak their imperialism with euphemistic rhetoric, but Trump has dropped any pretense ...
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has signed an executive order creating the country’s first city agency dedicated ...
Who Moves America chronicles the Teamsters’ 2023 near-strike at UPS. It’s a rare and moving portrait of a massive, diverse ...
At American universities, nap pods and meditation apps paper over backbreaking workloads. As higher education increasingly ...