Habeas Corpus On May 10, Rümeysa Öztürk, a PhD student from Tufts, successfully managed to gain bail and transfer out of ICE ...

As a historian of totalitarianism, Marci Shore feels obligated to offer the world some blunt relationship advice: it's time ...

The mainstream American news media have failed as an institution to properly confront the country’s worsening democracy ...

Advocates invert its meaning to claim any loss for their side is ‘undemocratic.’ ...

In the late 1980s, Joseph Nye, the Harvard political scientist who died this month, developed the concept of soft power. His ...

Ari Aster's new movie "Eddington," a neo-western, arose out of anxieties he was feeling during the COVID lockdown. He thinks ...

The administration says it is applying the same standard of justice to everyone. Some legal scholars see it differently.

Marci Shore, who has spent two decades studying the history of authoritarianism in Central and Eastern Europe, said she is ...

Columnist Scott McMurren said a visit to Washington, D.C., may embolden you to better understand where you’ve come from, to ...

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned against the Trump administration’s charge that judges were actively undermining democracy. In late April 2025, she said during a conference for ...

One thing stands out amid all the chaos, corruption and disorder: the wanton destructiveness of the Trump presidency. The ...

Another college graduate is being denied a diploma after speaking out for Palestinian rights. Palestinian American Sereen ...