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The New Ruins of the Melting Alps
Photographer Tomaso Clavorino has been traveling to Italy’s Alpine glaciers to ski since he was three years old. “It’s a place I know very well,” he told me over the phone. “It’s how I knew it was...
View ArticleThe Destructive Politics of White Amnesia
For all of his bumbling verbosity and avuncular artlessness, Democratic front-runner Joe Biden serves as a remarkably elegant illustration of all that ails the Democratic Party’s bid to retake the...
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Fox News Is the New NRA
In the aftermath of two horrific mass shootings—one of which occurred in his home state—Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick took to Fox News to whip up its viewers. Patrick, who has a habit of repeating...
View ArticlePolice Killed Her Boyfriend, Then Charged Her With His Murder
Masonique Saunders has been locked behind bars in Ohio since December, when, at age 16, she was arrested in the death of her boyfriend, Julius Tate. She celebrated her birthday in juvenile detention....
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Jihadi John, Domestic Terrorist
Like me and thousands of other Londoners, Mohammed Emwazi was born in the late 1980s to parents who had moved to the city from another country in search of a stable future. Emwazi’s family are Bidoon,...
View ArticleAmerica’s Most Powerful Gun Supporter
The single greatest impediment to reining in gun violence in America isn’t the House of Representatives, President Donald Trump, or even the Supreme Court. It’s Mitch McConnell. Virtually every path to...
View ArticleThe Sound and the Silence of Toni Morrison
It was early spring and snow was melting along the curbsides with a slow, metronomic drip. Around three-thirty in the afternoon, I left the library, and made my way across Harvard’s campus to Sanders...
View ArticleIndia’s Looming Ethno-Nationalist Catastrophe
In the long list of enemies maintained by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party of India (BJP), the Muslims of the northwestern state of Kashmir have always held a special place. The only Muslim-majority...
View ArticleMarianne Williamson’s Spiritualism Has Deep, Liberal Roots
It all started in the sleepy upstate town of Hydesville, New York. There, in March of 1848, the Fox sisters—10-year-old Kate and 14-year-old Maggie—convinced their older sister, 34-year-old Leah, that...
View ArticleThe Magazine of American Theocracy
In late May, the essayist Sohrab Ahmari saw a Facebook ad for a “children’s drag queen reading hour at a public library in Sacramento” and sat down to write a screed about the toxic multiculturalism he...
View ArticleIn Defense of Sparta
The city of Sparta isn’t much to look at these days. A couple small ruins, some olive trees, and down below, the cold waters of the Eurotas River. Nothing half as flashy as the Parthenon.Like their...
View ArticleWhat Indigenous Rights Have to Do With Fighting Climate Change
Long before he became president in January, Jair Bolsonaro argued that protections for Brazil’s indigenous peoples were onerous and economically restrictive. “It’s a shame that the Brazilian cavalry...
View ArticleRemembering Toni Morrison
Last week, in celebration of Herman Melville’s 200th birthday, The New York Times dug into its archives to reveal that Melville was so obscure when he died that the paper misspelled his most famous...
View ArticleThe Case of the “Disappearing” Poet
From Hollywood movies to children’s books, there has probably never been more discussion of how people of color are represented in American culture than there is right now. Efforts like #OscarsSoWhite...
View ArticleMore Government Power Is the Wrong Way to Fight White Supremacy
In June, Buzzfeed published the findings of the Plain View Project, a systematic investigation into white supremacist sympathies among police officers nationwide. The project searched the Facebook...
View ArticleReformed Climate Deniers Don’t Deserve Redemption
Last month, Republican pollster and messaging guru Frank Luntz sat down in front of a small committee of Senate Democrats and told a personal story about how wildfire almost consumed his California...
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The Harsh World of Offshore Borders
There are the borders that register quickly as borders—red, metal spikes jutting from dusty hills, glinting spirals of razor-wire—and then there are borders that don’t. There are borders roiling in the...
View ArticleEbola Outbreaks Are About Inequality
Living conditions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s eastern province of North Kivu were already precarious when the first cases of Ebola were reported there last July. Only eight days earlier,...
View ArticleTrump Is on the Right Side of the Law, for Once
President Donald Trump is not generally a fan of the rule of law. He is ignorant of constitutional principles. He’s hostile to checks and balances on his power. He’s authoritarian in style and...
View ArticleNo Law Can Ban White Supremacy From the Internet
It wasn’t long after mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton killed more than 30 people that a chorus of commentators, reporters, and even the president himself offered a plaintive response. These...
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