Meanwhile, eighty-four-year-old Mitch McConnell’s status among the living remains shrouded in mystery, and ...

Equal parts muckraking journalism and biting satire, the print-only, century-old French newspaper Le Canard enchaîné represents one of the most remarkable stories in modern journalism. Paul Cohen ...

Princeton Architectural Press, 2019, 368 pp. Daniel Chester French is an unknown figure to most Americans, but his crowning achievement, the massive sculpture of Abraham Lincoln that visitors see upon ...

When protest movements spread through cities around the world in 1968, Octavio Paz looked upon the “great youth rebellions . . . from afar,” he wrote, “with astonishment and with hope.” The poet was ...

Matt and Sam talk to Sam Moyn about his new book, Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It.

If the nation-state had failed to overcome the problem of colonial dependence, then the postcolonial political kingdom had to be reimagined. Nkrumah’s vision of pan-African federation was an effort to ...

An interview with Julie C. Suk, author of the forthcoming book The Shadow Court, on the Supreme Court’s recent decisions and the kind of reforms that would be needed to democratize the judiciary.

Stephen Kinzer is one of the few mainstream voices reminding Americans of our imperial identity. In The True Flag, he takes us back to where he thinks it all began—1898, when the U.S. political class ...

The borough’s arson wave in the 1970s was caused by financial forces and political priorities that continue to hold power in New York City. David Helps Winter 2026 Onlookers watch a fire burning in an ...

Fifty-nine years after its Broadway debut, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s South Pacific is once again drawing applause. At this year’s Tony Award ceremony, it topped all musicals, winning ...

The New Press, 2024, 400 pp. Last fall, the waters rose in Appalachia and did not stop until many were dead and many more were homeless. As the remnants of Hurricane Helene tore through the region, I ...