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The Money Question

By Christopher W. Shaw,

Is Trump right about the Fed?

Brutal from the Beginning

By Marc de Miramon, Translated by Maggie Calt

Celebrity sightings are a familiar feature of the modern N.B.A., but this year’s playoffs included an appearance unusual even by the standards of America’s most star-friendly sports league. A few…

More Than a Data Dump

By James C. Goodale,

Last fall, a court filing in the Eastern District of Virginia inadvertently suggested that the Justice Department had indicted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The Wall Street Journal, the New York…

America in the Middle East: learning curves are for pussies.—Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, June 2, 2015 In January 2017, following Donald Trump’s inauguration, his national security staffers entered their…

Donald Trump Is a Good President

By Michel Houellebecq, Translated by John Cullen

In all sincerity, I like Americans a lot; I’ve met many lovely people in the United States, and I empathize with the shame many Americans (and not only “New York…

Preservation Acts

By Nora Caplan-Bricker,

After eighteen-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, Bergis Jules found himself worrying not only over the horrors of the present, but also…

A Matter of Degrees

By Michael S. Collins,

According to the prophecy, we are in the last days when race will matter in the molding of American citizens. This particular prophecy was made in 2003 by Sandra Day…

Security Breach

By Michael J. Glennon,

Forty years ago, when I worked as legal counsel for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, we occasionally pulled all-nighters reconciling the House and Senate versions of a bill. Inevitably, we…

American Duce

By Robert O. Paxton,

It is powerfully tempting to call the new president of the United States a fascist. Donald Trump’s bullying tone, his scowl, and his jutting jaw recall Benito Mussolini’s absurd theatrics.…

Suing for Justice

By Ralph Nader,

As a law student at Harvard in the 1950s, I heard a professor joke that at the school they contract the law of torts in the morning and distort the…

The Nixon of the North

By Heather Mallick,

Canada was once a smug nation. We thought ourselves virtuous, and the rest of the world took us at our own estimation, especially Americans who threatened to move here when…

Why We Lost in Iraq and Afghanistan

By Daniel Bolger,

I am a United States Army general, and I lost the “global war on terror.” It’s like Alcoholics Anonymous; step one is admitting you have a problem. Well, I have…

Armed and Dangerous

By William Pfaff,

On May 28 of this year, Barack Obama delivered an important speech to the graduating class of cadets at West Point. It included oblique attacks on Vladimir Putin, Bashar al-Assad,…

Dissolve Congress

By Jean-Philippe Immarigeon,

Over the past five years, every industrial nation has had its own version of the same economic fight: champions of austerity on one side, advocates of social spending and economic…

Changing Partners

By Peter Oborne, David Morrison,

Ever since the United States emerged as an imperial power at the end of World War II, it has needed at least one enemy, preferably more. For many years, the…

The Mad Mullah Myth

By Flynt Lawrence Leverett, Hillary Mann Leverett,

In the more than thirty years since the Iranian Revolution, Western analysts have routinely depicted the Islamic Republic as an ideologically driven, illegitimate, and deeply unstable state. From their perspective,…

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