Operation Metro Surge was the culmination of a decades-long campaign in which conspiratorial crusaders have painted Somalis as a drain on social programs, criminals, and extremists.

An interview with Julie C. Suk, author of the forthcoming book The Shadow Court, on the Supreme Court’s recent decisions and the kind of reforms that would be needed to democratize the judiciary.

While the “worst of the worst” was already part of the lexicon of immigration enforcement before Donald Trump, his administration has routinely wielded it as a tool for advancing a radical, white-nationalist agenda.

Matt and Sam discuss Garry Wills’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America.

Few figures on the left have been as committed to realizing the democratic promise of American politics as Eugene Debs.

Hacks was a sharp satire of show business, but at its core it was about the creative process as a labor of love.

By invoking the American Revolution, twentieth-century anticolonial figures connected their project with the movement for civil rights in the United States.

The Democratic Party establishment was not happy about Zohran Mamdani’s election, but most did not treat it as an existential threat. The results of the 2026 primary elections can’t be so easily dismissed.

An interview with David Bateman and Julie C. Suk on the state of American democracy in 2026.

After a twelve-year struggle against military conscription in Thailand, Buddhist conscientious objector Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal faces potential incarceration in July. The following is an essay he wrote in anticipation of entering prison.