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Peter Beinart warns that American Jews must refocus on the democratic and humanitarian principles of Zionism before Israel becomes simply another despotic Middle Eastern state.
American democracy promotion didn’t spark the Arab uprisings, but a shared hatred of our Middle East policies sure helped them spread.
Ross Douthat rightly asserts that religious faith is essential to America’s understanding of itself. But his own understanding of religion is suspiciously selective.
The real Tea Partiers are worth getting to know. Because they’re going to be here a while. And they might prove useful.
Two political thinkers, a liberal and a conservative, believe America is headed toward inexorable decline. There are good reasons to believe they’re both wrong.
An oral history of the twentieth century, dictated on his deathbed, shows that Tony Judt was, to the end, the consummate public intellectual.
A novelist’s lonely struggle to recover the religion-inspired liberalism of America’s founding ethos.
Feral pigs are violent, dirty, and ugly, and they ravage every ecosystem they live in—still, who knew killing them could be such fun?
The American dream can be revived, says Tom Brokaw, if we can overcome our disunity, and universal national service is the key.
How a historian who reveled in destroying the reputations of others ruined his own.
How an idealistic spy in Asia challenged the American way of war, and what his tragedy teaches us about finding allies today.
The fall of moderate Republicans wasn’t inevitable. But their resurrection is hard to imagine.
Will Hezbollah remain a movement devoted to war with Israel or a pragmatic political player in Lebanon? That choice could determine the future of the Middle East.
Political reform will never happen until candidates and donors realize they’re being ripped off.
How America's forbidding political landscape made health care reform impossible for Clinton and nearly so for Obama.
How religious zealots in the Israeli government are supporting a new generation of extremist settlers who hate the Israeli government.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens's thirty-five-year tenure was marked by intellectual rigor, lack of pretension, and the firm belief that absolutism had no place on the bench.
Robert Frank's effort to explain the lessons of evolution without offending libertarian sensibilities
The promising, frustrating, indispensable race by government and industry to revolutionize the storage of electricity.
How the self-proclaimed Capitalist Tool was brought down by capitalism itself.
How the underground life of undocumented immigrants leaves their children cognitively impaired.
How the United Nations foots the bill for a state ruled by thugs.
What the first systematic survey of North Korean refugees tells us about life inside the Hermit Kingdom, and about whether the regime might be ready to fall.
Has D.C.’s radical experiment in school reform really worked?
What it was like working for Larry and Sergey during Google’s pioneering first years.
Why the left’s despair over Barack Obama has deep historical roots.
What the murder of a late-term abortion doctor does and does not say about the anti-choice movement.
A mountain of studies now shows that AmeriCorps, the nation's biggest community service program, works. House Republicans want to zero out its budget.
There's plenty to criticize about America's newspaper of record. So why do conservatives make up reasons that don't exist?
Middle East reformers would do well to study Thailand for lessons in how not to build a democracy.
The Religious Right's real pioneers came not from the South but Southern California.
Frederick Hess’s big new school reform idea is that no big new school reform idea works everywhere.
How conservatives ignored, and liberals misconstrued, Eisenhower’s warnings about military spending.
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