I learned early about the intrusive operations of state power in the daily routines of domestic life. For years, we all ...

More than a century before Zohran Mamdani declared he wanted a New York City network of grocery stores “focused on keeping ...

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The United States has never been “a nation of immigrants.” It has always been a settler state with a core of descendants from the original colonial settlers, that is, primarily Anglo-Saxons, Scots, ...

Aaron Shakow is a Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard. A longtime member of Partners In Health and former advisor to the World Health Organization, he is coeditor of Privilege and ...

On the morning of the 2016 presidential election, the New York Times published its final pre-election blog post on its data analysis vertical, The Upshot. Confidently forecasting an imminent victory ...

A number of recent books have put the methods of the social sciences in the service of understanding Trump, his movement, and his enablers, from Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum’s A Lot of People ...

One of the most commonly encountered claims about international politics today concerns the transition from a “Westphalian” to a “post-Westphalian” era. Writers across a wide range of media and ...

A version of this essay appears in our Summer 2025 issue under the headline “The Mamdani Model.” Become a member to get a copy. While masked, heavily armed, unidentified men are grabbing people off ...

“Very fine people”—fathers, husbands, and sons, as well as mothers, wives, and daughters—have always been central to the work of white supremacy. White supremacy is a language of unease. It does not ...