Even when there were figures who almost fit that role—like Thurgood Marshall or Ruth Bader Ginsburg—they couldn’t keep ...

Matt and Sam talk with Daniel Martinez HoSang about the gains the GOP and Trump are making with racial minorities.

An interview with Osita Nwanevu, author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding.

To understand everything that happens in Latin America in relation to the United States is to brush aside inconvenient details in favor of a morality play.

An interview with Dara Lind and Omar Jadwat on immigration policy in the second Trump administration.

An interview with Quinn Slobodian, the author of Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right.

Pablo Stefanoni March 4, 2025 Argentinian President Javier Milei wields a chainsaw as he arrives on stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 20, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty ...

Patrick Iber: Let’s start where AOC started a few days after the election. On Instagram, she asked people who had voted both for her and for Donald Trump to explain themselves. The answers were ...

When James C. Scott died earlier this summer at the age of eighty-seven, tributes to the scholar poured in from a bewildering variety of sources. Like members of a fractious clan rushing to the family ...

Matt and Sam revisit J.D. Vance's 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy to try to understand the Republican vice-presidential nominee.