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Building the Electrostate
Sandeep Vaheesan, The New York Review of Books
In the United States today, officials at all levels of government generally act as if private enterprise is the only way to provide goods and services. Yet a bastion of public ownership survives: more than a quarter of electricity customers—including the resi…
Feb 26, 2026, 12:00 PM
Trading with the Enemy
David Cole, The New York Review of Books
Friday’s Supreme Court decision rebuffing President Trump’s signature foreign policy initiative—worldwide tariffs imposed pursuant to an asserted national emergency—was extraordinary in multiple respects. In its nearly 250-year history, the Court has rarely r…
Feb 23, 2026, 4:09 PM
Poisonous Objects
Carolina A. Miranda, The New York Review of Books
Two exhibitions in Los Angeles respond to the racist monuments to Confederate soldiers that have been erected all over the United States.
Feb 19, 2026, 1:00 PM
A Real Live Socialist
Thomas Powers, The New York Review of Books
What Bernie Sanders brought to the job of mayor of Burlington and what he did with it help explain what matters to him and how he fits into American political argument.
Feb 19, 2026, 1:00 PM
‘We Think They’ll Kill Someone’
Anjan Sundaram, The New York Review of Books
Indigenous communities in Mexico who oppose the construction of megaprojects on their lands do so at great risk.
Feb 19, 2026, 1:00 PM
As Kennedy Went
Linda Greenhouse, The New York Review of Books
Justice Anthony Kennedy often confounded Supreme Court observers with his seemingly unpredictable opinions, but during the years when a majority could be achieved only through some measure of compromise, he wielded enormous power over the Constitution’s conte…
Feb 19, 2026, 1:00 PM
A Bitter Winter in Ukraine
Tim Judah, The New York Review of Books
Four years after their full-scale invasion, the Russians are trying to freeze Ukraine into submission by relentlessly attacking the country’s energy grid.
Feb 17, 2026, 1:00 PM
Authoritarianism from Below
Stuart Schrader, The New York Review of Books
As National Guard troops and federal officers swarmed Washington, D.C., in August, sent by President Donald Trump to confront what he declared a “crime emergency,” members of the city council expressed their outrage. Janeese Lewis George, who represents a nor…
Feb 14, 2026, 12:00 PM
Never Again, Once Again
Peter E. Gordon, The New York Review of Books
A few years ago, in the early summer of 2019, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum declared on its website that it “unequivocally rejects efforts to create analogies between the Holocaust and other events, whether historical or contemporary.” Apparentl…
Feb 7, 2026, 2:00 PM
When the Chips Are Down
Julian Gewirtz, The New York Review of Books
President Trump’s reversal of a ban on sales of advanced semiconductors to China undercut the strategic logic behind years of American policy that was meant to keep the US ahead in the race to develop AI systems.
Feb 5, 2026, 1:00 PM
The Struggle for the Fed
Trevor Jackson, The New York Review of Books
The Fed is under attack. Can it be both protected and held accountable?
Feb 5, 2026, 1:00 PM
An American Reckoning
Ben Rhodes, The New York Review of Books
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 facing American democracy today.
Feb 5, 2026, 1:00 PM
Poland: Halfway to Democracy
Joy Neumeyer, The New York Review of Books
What do the far right’s fluctuating fortunes in Poland suggest about countries seeking an off-ramp from autocracy?
Feb 5, 2026, 1:00 PM
Torn Asunder
Oscar Lopez, The New York Review of Books
As Guatemala and El Salvador were being torn apart by violent US-backed regimes, tens of thousands of children—many of them war orphans, others forcibly taken from their birth parents—were being adopted overseas.
Feb 5, 2026, 1:00 PM
Is It Easy Being Green?
Mark Roller, Bill McKibben, The New York Review of Books
To the Editors: Regarding Bill McKibben’s review of The Story of CO 2 Is the Story of Everything [“It’s a Gas,” NYR, January 15], and with all due respect to McKibben, I believe that his characterization of the transition to a wind and solar economy as someth…
Feb 5, 2026, 12:30 PM
The Crime of Witness
Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books
Renée Good and Alex Pretti were murdered for daring to interfere with the Trump administration’s efforts to normalize abductions and state violence.
Jan 29, 2026, 1:15 PM
Whose Hemisphere?
Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books
The US capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro reinforces the Trump administration’s capacity to invent any pretext to justify the use of armed force.
Jan 22, 2026, 1:00 PM
Trump’s Attack on Philanthropy
Aryeh Neier, Gara LaMarche, The New York Review of Books
Universities, law firms, and news media have already been targeted by the administration. As the Justice Department pushes to investigate the Open Society Foundations, it seems that philanthropies that support critical voices may be next.
Jan 22, 2026, 1:00 PM
At What Cost?
Marilynne Robinson, The New York Review of Books
New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani plans to absorb individual costs into the collective life of the city, but whether that will be enough is an open question.
Dec 25, 2025, 1:00 PM
God of the Gaps
Robert P. Baird, The New York Review of Books
Ross Douthat’s usual contrarian approach, in his recent book Believe, leads to a curiously impotent, watered-down account of religious experience.
Dec 25, 2025, 1:00 PM
Blood Work
Clair Wills, The New York Review of Books
A rare genetic mutation is best treated the nineteenth-century way, with bloodletting, showing up the strengths and weaknesses of the NHS.
Dec 25, 2025, 1:00 PM
L’Affaire Carlson
Suzanne Schneider, The New York Review of Books
On November 5 the president of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, convened an uncomfortable meeting. “I made a mistake, and I let you down,” he told a hall full of the conservative think tank’s staff and fellows in a video leaked to The Washington Free B…
Dec 21, 2025, 12:00 PM
The Scramble for the Seafloor
Rebecca Egan McCarthy, The New York Review of Books
Since 1779 photosynthesis has been the standard-issue explanation for the continuation of life on earth: plants absorb sunlight, which fuels their metabolism, and create oxygen as waste. This is such basic, grade-school science that it normally wouldn’t bear …
Dec 10, 2025, 6:24 PM
A Total Breakdown of All the Easter Eggs
A. S. Hamrah, The New York Review of Books
In December 2019, three months before the pandemic, I was standing on a subway platform in Brooklyn when I recognized a prominent older film critic also waiting for the train. I had been reading his work for many years, so I decided I would introduce myself. …
Dec 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
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