A Journal of Ideas

Book Reviews

The Reactionary Bind

In assessing the rise of the global anti-democracy movement, the United States must look inward as well as outward.

By Kim Phillips-Fein

The Arab World Blame Game

The United States has a lot to answer for in the Middle East. But not everything.

By Liz Sly

Degrees of Difference

Our biggest political divide isn’t race or gender or age. It’s education. And it’s getting worse.

By Paul Waldman

Constitutional Disorder

Two dramatically different views of the Constitution reflect the chasm between how left and right conceive the republic.

By Robert Tsai

The Immigration Gordian Knot

Immigration outcomes are often portrayed as a product of U.S. policy and will. The real story is more complicated—and more tragic.

By Dara Lind