When we think of premodern governance, we often default to an image of concentrated authority: imposing rulers presiding over intricately layered

To combat climate change, the entire world has to make the transition away from fossil fuels. If a major emitter like the United States or India doesn’t

I did not know Jessica Mitford— who was dubbed “the Queen of the Muckrakers”– for long, but I knew her well. In the 1990s, shortly before my biography of

Right at the launching of the US and Israeli war on Iran, itself a major war crime, the US fired a precision strike with a Tomahawk missile on an

Jason Furman is a very good economist, but sometimes he gets some things wrong. His NYT column, saying the Trump and Biden economies are largely the same,

I love this photo of Hound Dog Taylor (in his wig) and Muddy Waters. It reminds me of one of my greatest misadventures–16 years old, I'd had my license

Unstable Tyrant Trump is running out of lies, fantasies, and promises to break. An NBC interview of a Pennsylvania woman next to a gas station signals the

The high-level negotiations in Paris this week between U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng represent more than just a

I have always found it interesting, and at times revealing, when seasoned activists and intellectuals in the West, including those who see themselves as

At least 16 U.S. billionaires owe their wealth to one of America’s 20 largest low-wage employers — corporations where a significant share of workers earn

I awoke this morning to pictures of Iran’s South Pars gas field burning, the world’s largest. I know what this means. It makes me almost physically ill, a

With the deadline for paying federal income taxes fast approaching, the thoughts of American taxpayers turn naturally toward the age-old question: Why

In 2016, when reporter Katy Tur asked Donald Trump about his false claim that he saw thousands of Muslims in New Jersey cheering the 9/11 attacks, he

Previously unthinkable, amazing developments are afoot in the hyper-capitalist terror state that aspires to rule the world. On March 17, el jefe Donald

We are not facing separate crises, but the simultaneous collapse of multiple historical orders unfolding in the present. Not only international relations

When the U.S. goes to war, it goes to win – and to win, it kills and kills. The U.S-Israel war against Iran began on February 28, 2026.  On March 2nd,

Since everyone seems to have a sticker shock story lately:  I rolled one of my motorcycles up to a gas pump yesterday and, for the first time ever, spent

It’s almost not worth considering, but precisely because it comes from the White House, the mad manoeuvrings and silly airings of the US President must be

The origins of chess are contested, but few dispute that while the game began in India, it was the Sassanian Persian Empire that refined it into a

There certainly are a great number of noteworthy, deeply original paintings to see in Venice. You can find what I have identified elsewhere in