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The Future of Abortion Rights
Amy Littlefield, Nora Caplan-Bricker, The New York Review of Books
In March the NYR Online published Amy Littlefield’s sweeping overview of the shifts in abortion access since the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization effectively outlawed the procedure in more than a dozen states. Many of t…
May 23, 2026, 2:30 PM
Our Climate’s Wild Card
Jonathan Mingle, The New York Review of Books
Methane's part in the climate crisis remains largely overlooked, even though it is responsible for 30 percent of all global warming to date, and despite the fact that it's still possible to purge it from our skies.
May 21, 2026, 12:00 PM
Damming the Big Ocean
Quinn Slobodian, The New York Review of Books
Edward Fishman's Chokepoints explains how the US came to rely on its economic arsenal, but stops short of a complete assessment of the unreliable tactic and its often devastating consequences.
May 21, 2026, 12:00 PM
Dreams of Our Nation
David W. Blight, The New York Review of Books
Historians must not cede the study of how Americans understand their cacophonous nation to advocates of “patriotic” history.
May 21, 2026, 12:00 PM
Navalny’s Unfinished Work
Benjamin Nathans, The New York Review of Books
In his posthumous memoir, Alexei Navalny’s utopian vision of “the Beautiful Russia of the Future” remains strangely detached from history.
May 21, 2026, 12:00 PM
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Christopher de Bellaigue, Daniel Drake, The New York Review of Books
As President Trump’s erratic negotiations with Iran drag on and oil prices continue to rise, the United States’ ostensible ethical justification for the war—regime change—has largely disappeared from mainstream coverage. In the Review’s May 28 issue, Christop…
May 16, 2026, 2:30 PM
Opera in Ragged Times
Larry Wolff, The New York Review of Books
During the first hundred days of Donald Trump’s second presidency, while he was devastating American society with mass deportations and shredding the global economic order with arbitrary tariffs, he also found the time to make himself chairman of the board of…
May 16, 2026, 2:00 PM
A Dream of a Socialist Commonwealth
Adam Hochschild, The New York Review of Books
Molly Crabapple’s history of the Bund recovers an egalitarian, secular, cosmopolitan vision of Jewish identity and political life that was lost in the horrors of the twentieth century.
May 7, 2026, 12:00 PM
Indiana’s Indiana Jones
Nina Siegal, The New York Review of Books
FBI agents who raided an Indiana farm in 2014 were astonished to find some 42,000 artifacts and bones looted by an amateur archaeologist.
May 7, 2026, 12:00 PM
Iran’s New Winter
Christopher de Bellaigue, The New York Review of Books
The US-Israeli war against Iran, far from encouraging a popular uprising, has strengthened the regime’s grip and set back the cause of Iranian freedom indefinitely.
May 5, 2026, 12:00 PM
Mystery Brain
Daniel Lefferts, Daniel Drake, The New York Review of Books
Last year the right-wing Passage Publishing, whose mission—“to push forward new ideas and ways of thinking that can break us out of our cultural and political cul-de-sac and open up new possibilities for art and publishing”—has led primarily to the production…
May 2, 2026, 2:30 PM
Waiting for Day Zero
Will Alden, The New York Review of Books
This past Easter Sunday the leaders of an Iranian opposition party in exile gathered for a celebratory picnic with family and friends at Lake Balboa Park in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley. Citrus-and-mint-scented hookah smoke wafted from a lakeside gazebo …
Apr 22, 2026, 9:01 PM
‘The Right Amount of Crazy’
Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books
In Trump’s strategy of feigning madness to get what he wants, there is no longer any border between pretense and actual irrationality.
Apr 21, 2026, 12:00 PM
War Games
Jake Nevins, The New York Review of Books
At the opening of the 2026 Winter Olympics, held simultaneously at venues in Milan, Cortina, Livigno, and Predazzo, the notion of the games as an occasion for international peace took the form of armonia, or “harmony” in Italian. It was a quality exhibited mo…
Apr 19, 2026, 9:00 AM
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
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