Cohn served as chief counsel to Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s, when the Wisconsin senator was riding roughshod over the ...

Amid the recent flurry of radical executive orders, one in particular has flown under the radar: President Trump has seized ...

Hamilton College. His most recent book is Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism (Basic Books, 2024).

While much important attention has been placed on the history of redlining in housing, as well as on disparities in education, health care, and economic opportunity, among other areas, the inequities ...

The interim National Security Strategic Guidance (NSSG) issued by the Biden Administration in early March 2021 articulated a central role for democracy and democratic values in guiding and shaping ...

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As the Democratic primary heats up, what is particularly notable is how little the progressive debate is centered around Donald Trump, and how much it is revolving, instead, around big ideas and moral ...

As America moves from Independence Day to Election Day, we are on the verge of a new Cold War with Communist China. That conflict is taking place in the shadow of a raging global pandemic and a steep ...

It seems superfluous to give my endorsement to Adam Serwer’s lengthy meditation on Trumpism (since it recommends itself), but I’ll say that Serwer’s overview will stand as a major document in the ...

In 2011, when I was interviewing to be an intern at this journal, I was asked what authors and publications I read. I listed a couple of newspapers and progressive magazines, but, wanting to seem open ...

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