Why the Burmese military has used the rhetoric of the global war on terror as a pretext for its ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya Muslims

The troubled rise of the technocrat

How Laura Ingalls Wilder’s frontier vision of freedom and survival lives on in Trump’s America.

How an American ex-jihadi struggled to rebuild his life in the country he’d once vowed to destroy

How local officials across the country are working for the Trump administration’s clampdown on undocumented immigrants

How the president undermines Republicans’ traditional economic arguments

How "The Killing of a Sacred Deer" completes the Greek director's descent into self-parody

Today, immigrants threatened with deportation grapple with depression, anxiety, and PTSD.

A nonstrategy for Afghanistan.

Ben Jealous is running for governor in Maryland. What does his campaign say about the iconic civil rights organization he used to lead?

How a powerful source of support for immigration lost its influence over the Republican Party.

Why Margaret Atwood’s “Alias Grace” makes subversive television.

By loosening environmental regulations, Trump risks making a serious public-health hazard critical.

Moscow has been honing an information age art of war—through fake news, disinformation, leaks, and trolling—for more than a decade. How can free societies protect themselves?

What made prehistoric hunter-gatherers give up freedom for civilization?

How the contest between capitalism and communism shaped world politics—and defines today’s inequalities.

Masha Gessen's new book traces the rise of repressive nationalism.