The Demise of Conflict Studies
An entire industry specializing in mediation, peacekeeping, disarmament, and transitional justice has become largely obsolete.
Winter 2026
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Mamdani’s Digital Machine
The success of Zohran’s agenda will depend on an ambitious digital strategy that transcends social media performance.
The Left Needs Bureaucrats
After MAGA, the left will need to be ready with a theory of how to rebuild the federal administrative state—not as it was before Trump, but as something better.
If You Want Me to Pay My Taxes 
Americans tend to imagine that aversion to taxation is deeply rooted in our national political culture. Not so fast, Vanessa S. Williamson argues in her new book, The Price of Democracy.
Capital of the American Century
Mike Wallace’s Gotham at War offers a guidebook to a half-vanished city, and brings to life the immense human drama that unfolded in New York during the Second World War.
The Bronx Still Burns
The borough’s arson wave in the 1970s was caused by financial forces and political priorities that continue to hold power in New York City.
After Eviction
Brian Goldstone’s There Is No Place for Us challenges the widespread public perception of homelessness as a reflection of individual choices, but it also looks beyond the assumption that soaring home and rental prices alone are driving the crisis.
A New Vision for Public Lands
Policy debates around public lands point to larger unresolved questions about the nature and function of the public trust. What should we do with this national resource at a moment of major transition?
Could Democrats Regain the Rural Vote?
The end of the twentieth century left rural America shell-shocked, and residents reacted accordingly.
Amazon’s Robot Revolution
While the introduction of robotics at Amazon is still in an early phase, the technological transformation underway continues existing practices of work intensification, degradation, and displacement.
Can Unions Strengthen Their Political Muscle?
Labor unions have long been central to the fight for democracy. But they can only play that role when members are engaged and trust their unions to fight for them.
The Kerala Consensus
How did a society segregated by caste, class, and religion become an egalitarian community?
More Than Sewers
The pragmatism of the Milwaukee socialists was inseparable from the international world of socialism that they inhabited and helped to shape.
City Limits
Anne Hidalgo’s mayoralty illustrates the limits of local responses to national and international problems like housing and climate change. Without wider coordination, even the most successful mayor’s reach can only extend so far.
The Heaven of Train Travel
Passenger rail is being remade as a luxury lifestyle product—suggesting the problem isn’t trains, but the indignity of using them when they are so badly run.
