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Killing the Moonlight
Alexander Stille, The New York Review of Books
Electric light, the telephone, radio, the automobile, the movie camera, the airplane: the last years of the nineteenth century and the first years of the twentieth were a blur of technological innovation. In Italy, a provincial, largely agrarian country only …
Aug 24, 2025, 9:13 AM
Weaponizing the Watchdog
Walter M. Shaub Jr., The New York Review of Books
Donald Trump’s fascist takeover of government is a comprehensive affair, and sometimes it’s the little things that reveal just how thoroughly his administration has been dismantling our democratic infrastructure. On June 16 Trump nominated the thirty-year-old…
Aug 7, 2025, 11:30 AM
The Twilight Zone
Sue Halpern, The New York Review of Books
Laila Lalami’s prescient new novel follows a woman imprisoned by the government for her dreams.
Jul 31, 2025, 12:00 PM
The Contradictory Revolution
David S. Reynolds, The New York Review of Books
Historians have long grappled with “the American Paradox” of American Revolutionary leaders who fought for their own liberty while denying it to enslaved Black people.
Jul 31, 2025, 12:00 PM
After Resettlement
Caroline Moorehead, The New York Review of Books
How has a group of Liberian refugees, resettled in the US nearly twenty-five years ago after fleeing civil war, fared in a country that has changed vastly since admitting them?
Jul 31, 2025, 12:00 PM
Romania’s Split Identity
Costică Brădăţan, The New York Review of Books
Romania’s divided loyalties between East and West help explain how a nerdy Sorbonne-educated mathematician was elected president.
Jul 31, 2025, 12:00 PM
Umpires No More
David Cole, The New York Review of Books
At his confirmation hearings in 2005, Chief Justice John Roberts famously compared judges to umpires. “It’s my job to call balls and strikes,” he said. “Umpires don’t make the rules, they apply them.” It’s not clear that anyone ever really bought the analogy,…
Jul 29, 2025, 12:00 PM
Lights Out
Jonathan Mingle, The New York Review of Books
For anyone concerned that the world is hurtling toward three degrees of warming by the end of the century—a future described as “hellish” by the UN secretary general—there is one useful byproduct of the budget reconciliation bill the Republican Party scramble…
Jul 20, 2025, 11:00 AM
The Dismantling of American Health Care
Adam Gaffney, David U. Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler, The New York Review of Books
On July 4 President Donald Trump signed into law a piece of legislation that amounts to a declaration of war on the working-class and the sick. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” will slice more than $1 trillion from Medicaid over the next decade, stripping hea…
Jul 8, 2025, 5:38 PM
The New York World
Max Rivlin-Nadler, Daniel Drake, The New York Review of Books
The weekend before the thirty-three-year-old socialist Zohran Mamdani stunned Andrew Cuomo and the city of New York by winning a decisive victory in the mayoral primary race, the NYR Online published an assessment by Max Rivlin-Nadler of the powerful coalitio…
Jul 5, 2025, 2:30 PM
The Parrot in the Machine
James Gleick, The New York Review of Books
The artificial intelligence industry depends on plagiarism, mimicry, and exploited labor, not intelligence.
Jul 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
Saving Graces
Michelle Nijhuis, The New York Review of Books
What we conserve and why—art, heirlooms, animals, even the planet—are increasingly urgent questions.
Jul 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
Locked Up by Erdogan
Aryeh Neier, The New York Review of Books
For his work as an activist and philanthropist, Osman Kavala has been unjustly imprisoned in Turkey for seven and a half years.
Jul 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
‘The Red and the Green’
Casey A. Williams, The New York Review of Books
The Japanese philosopher Kohei Saito’s proposal for "degrowth communism" as a solution to the climate crisis has inspired fierce debate, including among other Marxists.
Jul 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
Death in the Air
Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books
In Murderland, Caroline Fraser traces the correlations between rapacious industrial pollution and sadistic serial killers.
Jul 3, 2025, 12:00 PM
Universities: Know Your Rights!
David Cole, The New York Review of Books
In recent days the Trump administration has ramped up its attacks on higher education. On June 26 the Justice Department announced that it is investigating the University of California system on the grounds that its pursuit of ethnic and racial diversity in h…
Jul 2, 2025, 4:07 PM
A Show of Force
Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books
What Trump was trying to demonstrate in Los Angeles is that he can project his armed power into every American community at any time.
Jul 1, 2025, 12:00 PM