I often feel like Donald Trump takes up too much of my attention.

What this Knicks run has taught me about identity, community, exile, and being a part of something bigger than yourself.

The Backstory of a Book

A conversation with Pankaj Mishra, Ben Rhodes, and Suzy Hansen on what the war means for the future of US politics and America’s place in the world

A Warning for Americans

What We Can Learn from how America Names Its Wars

A different way of looking at war

Russia could be a beneficiary of Trump's war on Iran.

False Pretexts, No Endgame, Chaos in the Region, and the Obligation of Opposition

Do you know why we seem to be on the precipice of war with Iran?

A Warning from History

“I was born in the slum, but the slum was not born in me,” Jesse Jackson declared defiantly.

“I was born in the slum, but the slum was not born in me,” Jesse Jackson declared defiantly.

There was something unsettling about the Munich Security Conference.

On Trump, the Obamas, Race, and the Lost Cause

Robert McNamara’s failure to reckon with the exceptionalism that led the United States into the Vietnam War contributed to fifty years of foreign policy failures. It can help us understand the crisis ...

Consider the picture of a smiling man next to a girl with her face blacked out, or the dashed off email with poor punctuation referencing a victim of human trafficking with a life in front of her like...

Consider the picture of a smiling man next to a girl with her face blacked out, or the dashed off email with poor punctuation referencing a victim of human trafficking with a life in front of her like...

Why is Donald Trump getting more comfortable with war?

Why is Donald Trump getting more comfortable with war?

What if there was no video?

What if there was no video?

These are disorienting times. It is harder to understand the story we are living through, as individuals or a collective.

What does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide? This sweeping history of the United States told through fifteen speeches relives the battle over American identity, from a New York Times bestsell...

What does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide? This sweeping history of the United States told through fifteen speeches relives the battle over American identity, from a New York Times bestsell...