And yet we keep proclaiming how special we are. As Webb puts it, “Hamlet got one thing right: we’re a piece of work.” For example, hummingbirds can see colors that human beings are not even able to ...

is a senior technology researcher and advocate at Human Rights Watch.

is a book critic in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His latest book, Only a Voice: Essays, has just been published by Verso.

Ensuring that the voices of everyday Americans aren’t drowned out by moneyed interests is a key task where philanthropic investment currently falls far short. (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty ...

Despite their cries of popular sovereignty to justify revolution and the authorship of their own Constitution, members of the Founding generation were suspicious of democracy, and frightened by what ...

In May, as the pandemic was killing around 2,000 Americans a day, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Department of Justice, in partnership with a group of state attorneys general, was preparing ...

Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller • Scribner • 2022 • 464 pages • $30 But what if this superstructural interpretation is incomplete? What if it blinds us to ...

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 ...

On January 10, 2017, President Obama traveled to Chicago to offer a farewell address under circumstances that he never expected to face—and had certainly hoped to avoid. He spoke ten days before the ...

is the Economic Policy Institute’s budget analyst.

One of the rare examples of bipartisanship in the United States is, lamentably, a broad distrust and dislike of elected officials and even politics as a profession. All too often today, talented and ...