It is this attempt to think anew that I will refer to as their “Benjaminian moment.” Put succinctly: Arendt as well as Adorno ...

The donation of $1.6 billion from an obscure businessman “transformed Leo into a power broker who could steer the ...

A year after the October 7 attacks in Israel, no end to Israel’s war is on the horizon. This week’s reading list compiles ...

I left Beirut in 2006, a month after graduating from medical school. In July that year, war had erupted, or rather been renewed, between Hezbollah and Israel following a cross-border raid by Hezbollah ...

Haitian migrants have been subjected to decades of brutal mistreatment by the U.S. government, much of which unfolded at ...

A terse telegram from Dar es Salaam first alerted Barclays Bank in London of the unexpected and immediate nationalization of its local subsidiary in Tanzania. “We are advised full compensation will be ...

American democracy is broken, but partisanship alone is not to blame. Political scientist Lee Drutman places our two-party system instead at the center of the American democratic crisis. Of course, ...