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The Aging Class
Trevor Jackson, The New York Review of Books
Retirement, like so much of the American economy, is a broken system that benefits private interests and exploits the most vulnerable people.
Apr 2, 2026, 12:00 PM
Born in the USA
David Cole, The New York Review of Books
For the Supreme Court to accept the Trump administration’s attempt to revoke birthright citizenship, it would have to repudiate the Constitution, its own precedents, and the long-standing position of all three branches of the US government.
Mar 31, 2026, 12:00 PM
Shenzhen Express
Yi-Ling Liu, The New York Review of Books
In Shenzhen, the successes and failures of China’s remarkable new economy are on full display.
Mar 19, 2026, 12:00 PM
Possessing the Painful Parts
Omari Weekes, The New York Review of Books
Tyriek White’s We Are a Haunting traces the lives of Black Brooklynites dealing with the porous boundaries between the past and the present as they forge lives amid the detritus that others have discarded.
Mar 19, 2026, 12:00 PM
Since Dobbs
Amy Littlefield, The New York Review of Books
Brianna knew her husband would claim the pregnancy was an act of God. Their marriage was falling apart. She was fed up with his infidelity and with managing their kids and home on her own. The couple had recently separated when she realized her period was lat…
Mar 13, 2026, 5:44 PM
Who Speaks for Us?
Marilynne Robinson, The New York Review of Books
The representatives of our two-party system have made it into a weapon that works against the people.
Mar 5, 2026, 1:00 PM
Post Mortem
Robert G. Kaiser, The New York Review of Books
When Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post in 2013 and promised to find inventive ways to make journalism profitable in the digital age, he seemed like a godsend. He wasn’t.
Mar 5, 2026, 1:00 PM
Diversity by Other Means
David Cole, The New York Review of Books
Progressives may have lost the battle for racial affirmative action, but ironically, Supreme Court decisions should allow colleges to give advantage to groups defined by their income, geography, or heritage.
Mar 5, 2026, 1:00 PM
China’s Leader Manqué
Orville Schell, The New York Review of Books
Chiang Kai-shek had enormous flaws as a leader, but something was nonetheless lost to China when he and his Republican government were forced into exile on Taiwan.
Mar 5, 2026, 1:00 PM
Policy, Not Biology
Kara Dansky, Elspeth Cypher, Elizabeth Chesak, Paisley Currah, The New York Review of Books
To the Editors: This is a response to “The Anti-Trans Playbook,” published by Paisley Currah in The New York Review of Books on December 18, 2025. Currah misleads readers regarding the positions held by the authors. Currah’s opinion piece is wrong on the fact…
Mar 5, 2026, 12:30 PM
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
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