Government highway agencies have enabled the blatant falsification of traffic model results. Consequently, the United States wastes billions on road expansions that fail to cure congestion and make it harder to get around without a car.
Destructive displays of technological prowess in Lebanon serve to distract the Israeli public from the military’s failure to achieve its long-stated war aims.
While the coal industry is in terminal decline, it still shapes the culture of central Appalachia.
To transform the world to more closely align with our principles, we must think and act politically.
Matt and Sam talk to screenwriter Dorothy Fortenberry about families, gender, and the 2024 election.
Can we expand the state’s role in the economy while diminishing its capacity for war?
The Squad was elected on a hope for political revolution—but it was missing a standing army.
Arthur Miller’s landmark play The Crucible illuminates the difference between informing and truth-telling.
Three recent books offer a searing portrait of the calculated brutality of the ongoing Uyghur genocide.
Like so many romantics, Scott mixed radical and conservative themes. No wonder he found appreciative readers across the political spectrum.
Matt and Sam talk to Vinson Cunningham about his debut novel Great Expectations, political theater, and Barack Obama.
The DNC showed a party that has successfully metabolized movement energy and insurgent campaigns while distancing itself from demands deemed harmful to its electoral prospects.
Matt and Sam interview Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld about their new book, The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics.
An interview with Waleed Shahid.
Matt and Sam revisit J.D. Vance’s 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy to try to understand the Republican vice-presidential nominee.
