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February 26, 2026
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Medicaid Undone
By making Medicaid distinguish still more sharply between the “deserving” and “undeserving” poor, the Trump administration is exacerbating a problem built into the program’s foundation.
February 13, 2026
‘Fill It with Reality’
It’s been two months now since I became a maid.
February 10, 2026
Pieces of Gaza
An exhibition in Paris of archaeological treasures from Gaza served as a reminder of how much of the Strip’s history has been destroyed.
February 12, 2026
Poland: Halfway to Democracy
What do the far right’s fluctuating fortunes in Poland suggest about countries seeking an off-ramp from autocracy?
February 26, 2026 issue
A Student of Power
In his experiences and chronicles of the great ideological battles of the twentieth century, Curzio Malaparte was a shape-shifter—pitiless, clinical, cynical, unsentimental, indifferent to morality and idealism.
February 26, 2026 issue
Torn Asunder
As Guatemala and El Salvador were being torn apart by violent US-backed regimes, tens of thousands of children—many of them war orphans, others forcibly taken from their birth parents—were being adopted overseas.
February 26, 2026 issue
Lost and Forgotten
Although his own writings are little known today, Malcolm Cowley became one of the great champions of American literature.
February 26, 2026 issue
Never Again, Once Again
Invoking the memory of Jewish persecution to denounce the assault on immigrants today is not an offense but a moral imperative.
February 7, 2026
Promo Time
At the center ofKPop Demon Hunters is a fantasy of unmediated connection between fans and idols, a frictionless vision of the perfected market.
February 2, 2026
My Elsewheres
A lifetime of travel outside the United States has enlarged my sense of history far beyond the prevailing American ideology of race.
February 1, 2026
Fifteen Below Zero
Up against the delirious scale of Operation Metro Surge, ordinary people juggle daily life with looking out for each other however they can.
January 30, 2026
Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
For six decades, Yoko Ono’s art has considered how we should live with ourselves and one another in an unknowable, painful world.
January 25, 2026
Nepal’s Republic of Amnesia
After overthrowing the government last fall, can Nepal’s youth movement address the inequities that have burdened the country since its founding?
January 17, 2026
‘There’s Nothing for Me Here’
What caused Venezuela’s collapse, and who is responsible? A recent memoir tells the story as so many families have lived it.
May 29, 2025 issue
Chavismo’s Chokehold
The party of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro maintains a strong hold on state institutions, but it has lost the people’s mandate. Will there be a transfer of power to the opposition candidate, Edmundo González—the true victor of this summer’s election?
September 19, 2024 issue
The Triumph of a Musical Adventure
“Over the last forty years, through a succession of often controversial political regimes, Venezuela has become widely known for a highly developed system of orchestras and socially directed musical education that is now being adapted and much imitated.”
September 24, 2015 issue
The Last Caudillo
All these years later, it’s still hard to know whether his was adictablanda (a soft dictatorship) or not. For all his anti-imperialist fulminations, the flow of Venezuelan oil to US ports was not interrupted for a single day. For all his socialist preaching, his country remained firmly capitalist.
March 6, 2013
The Gray Tick
Since leaving Iran fifteen years ago I have felt a permanent anxiety for loved ones there. Never is it sharper than when the regime shuts the Internet down.
January 13, 2026
Khamenei’s Dilemma
As protests in Iran continue, the regime’s attempts to crack down on them may create an unstoppable spiral of state violence and popular fury.
November 24, 2022 issue
The Enigma of Iranianism
The terms ‘electoral collusion,’ ‘alternative facts,’ and ‘deep state’ may have not existed at the time of the American-back coup in Iran. But they were an essential part of the CIA toolkit.
June 7, 2018 issue
The Iranian Revolution
“The most glaring misperception of all has been the failure to grasp the part that Islam would play in mobilizing the revolutionary opposition to the Shah and in shaping post-revolution Iranian society.”
June 26, 1980 issue
Unveiling Iran
From the start, the Islamic Revolution used the compulsory hijab to cement its rule by subordinating women. A wave of civil disobedience is challenging all that.
March 8, 2021
Tehran Winter
“The city was free, but it remained the Shah’s creation. In the winter of 1980, a year after the revolution, it was still awaiting purpose.”
October 8, 1981 issue
An Appeal in Iran
“On the occasion of the commencement of the third year of the revolution, we the undersigned writers and intellectuals of the country feel that it is our duty to go over the record of the past two years under the present leaders of our society and to explore what has happened.”
June 11, 1981 issue
The Sense of an Endling
In the early nineteenth century, the idea of species extinction was an alien concept. That changed after an expedition to Iceland in search of the last of the great auks.
December 5, 2024 issue
Coq au Pépin
More than almost any other public figure, Jacques Pépin has followed the trajectory of twentieth-century cuisine, from the Hôtel Plaza Athénée to Howard Johnson’s, and from his Burgundy backyard to national television.
October 5, 2023 issue
Free from the Archives
Dan Chiasson: Larger Than Life“Bread and Puppet has produced some of the great visual representations of modern American atrocity, from Hiroshima to Vietnam to covert assassinations and environmental terror.”
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Contempt of Court
“True accountability lies with the American people. Do we sit by and accept such behavior? Or do we take to the streets to express our disapproval of what the government is doing in our name?”
February 14, 2026
The Writer from the Dance
“The twentieth century’s great utopian experiments are exhausted, but there doesn’t seem to be an alternative vision on the horizon that people might want to sacrifice for and struggle to achieve, and the wreckage all around is great.”
February 7, 2026
Sparkle and Status
“Biography is a wonderful way into the past, because it’s life as experienced, day to day, subtly influenced by what is happening in politics or the movement of ideas.”
January 31, 2026
In the Despot Archives
“Government officials routinely distort the truth, incite ethnic hatred, treat the legislature and the media with contempt, and appoint partisan judges, while security forces carry out arbitrary arrests, torture and kill people, and run amok in other countries.”
January 17, 2026
Gaza: The Threat of Partition
By putting the possibility of reconstruction out of reach for many Palestinians in Gaza, the current UN-endorsed “peace plan” may make it impossible for them to remain.
November 23, 2025
What ‘Day After’ for Gaza?
The most influential plans for rebuilding Gaza start from the premise that Palestinians have no right to determine their future.
October 25, 2025
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