Book Reviews

Chip Shots

The United States wants to stop China’s semiconductor industry in its tracks. Here’s how it could backfire.

By Arthur Goldhammer

The Unraisable Issue

Eric Alterman’s history of U.S. views of Israel asks why the topic is so lethal—and minds so unpersuadable.

By Emily Tamkin

The New Abolitionists

Is prison abolition possible? Desirable? Or does it miss the real problem with our criminal justice system?

By Jonathan Blanks

No Way Out

How our hollowed-out welfare system punishes working-class moms and their kids.

By Sarah Jaffe

Pitching the Big Tent

The secret, often missing ingredient to building a majoritarian progressive coalition.

By Nicole Hemmer