Our empathy seems to make us righteous—even as we benefit from an unequal world.
Our empathy seems to make us righteous—even as we benefit from an unequal world.
Matt and Sam talk to Andrew Marantz about “bro” podcasts and their role in Trump’s election victory.
The late Uruguayan president had an unmatched connection with popular sectors and the courage of his enduring convictions.
Hope has been restored for many Syrians. But vigilance will be needed to ensure that democratic institutions emerge and withstand autocratic impulses.
An interview with Faye Guenther, president of UFCW Local 3000.
An interview with Dara Lind and Omar Jadwat on immigration policy in the second Trump administration.
Trump’s National Garden of American Heroes will be a monument to randomness and a lazy, perhaps unthinking, version of the ideology he is supposed to despise.
The U.S. government is activating a suite of algorithmic surveillance tools, developed in concert with major tech companies, to monitor and criminalize immigrants’ speech.
An interview with Quinn Slobodian, the author of Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right.
Matt and Sam discuss the passing of Pope Francis, what his papacy meant, why he scandalized the Catholic right, and why his message feels so necessary and so far away.
The Lord of the Rings is a book obsessed with ruins, bloodlines, and the divine right of aristocrats. Why are so many on the left able to love it?
The government funds institutions that stretch across American society. The Trump administration is demanding the relinquishment of constitutional rights to keep the money flowing.
The super-rich opt out of the social contract by picking and choosing which laws apply to them, whether in offshore tax havens or at home.
By intimidating and disarming potential sources of legal resistance, Trump weakens one of the last institutional barriers standing between his administration and unbridled executive power.
Trump has destroyed a federal system of labor relations that helped contain conflict for decades. The move could have unintended consequences.
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