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This note introduces our Summer 2025 issue. Read the Table of Contents here . Subscribe to get a copy.
Shiri Pasternak is a professor of criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University and a steering committee member of the Jewish Faculty Network.
Given the history of Israel’s smearing of journalists in Gaza as a precursor to assassinating them, the Committee to Protect Journalists publicly called for al-Sharif’s protection. But on August 10, ...
The best guarantee on the professionalism, honesty, and effectiveness of its delivery is to let international journalists ...
This past April, the FBI made an admission that was nothing short of catastrophic for the field of forensic science. In an unprecedented display of repentance, the Bureau announced that, for years, ...
The Judicial War on Government The Supreme Court’s latest bid to control agencies like the EPA—and Congress itself.
Democrats don’t lose elections because of rising prices. They lose when they cut spending and raise interest rates, sacrificing other goals at the altar of price stability.
The United States has long supported the repression of Latin American land defenders. The tactics it exported are coming to the Atlanta forest.
The Dream Hoarders Focusing on the top 1 percent is a mistake. The real class divide is between the upper middle class—the top 20 percent—and the rest of America.
April 13, 2023 This essay appears in print in Is Equal Opportunity Enough?. In June 2020 Donald Trump tweeted, in characteristically hyperbolic style, that his administration had “done more for the ...
April 06, 2023 “The loudest noise in the world is silence.” —Thelonious Monk In December 1969 Thelonious Monk taped a show for French television titled Jazz Portrait: Thelonious Monk, produced by ...
What happens next and how to take things seriously are difficulties these texts have something to tell us about—something we need, still, to learn. This account of these three notoriously difficult ...