Mexico’s Disappeared,” April 2, 2025 To the Editors: In obsessing over the Ayotzinapa case, Claudio Lomnitz argues, the ...

Instead of pouring public funds into private industry—as the United States did with COVID-19 vaccines—we must build public capacity and prioritize public objectives. Amy Kapczynski, Christopher Morten ...

March 01, 2007 The American left is now waking up to the fact that it slumbered while a historic opportunity to aid the poor passed it by. When Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work ...

January 18, 2012 was a day that changed the Internet forever. Wikipedia, Google, and thousands of other Web sites went “black” in a day of self-censorship, the largest online protest ever. Their ...

When Tom Hayden started working on the Port Huron Statement, he had already been beaten in Mississippi, protested at the Democratic National Convention, met Robert Kennedy, interviewed Martin Luther ...

Dear Members of the Board of Governors, West Virginians, and all Americans: We write at a potentially cataclysmic moment for West Virginia University (WVU), where we are professors. As the flagship ...

U.S. history is a strange, exceptional field of play where, to paraphrase Garrison Keillor’s famous sign-off from Lake Wobegon, all the revolutions are strong, all the revolutionaries are kind, and ...

“Call me Caitlyn.” With this phrase, emblazoned on Vanity Fair’s June 2015 cover, Caitlyn Jenner revealed her transgender identity to the world. But these words were not only a revelation; they also ...

What responsibility does the artist have to society? Speaking at Amherst College in 1963, John F. Kennedy gave one answer to that perpetually nagging question. For a politician it was a highly unusual ...

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, ...

“Effective altruism,” the philanthropic movement founded on Peter Singer’s ideas, applies a consequentialist philosophy to the problem of global poverty. “Effective altruism,” the philanthropic ...