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Mahmoud Khalil raising his hand, standing in front of the doors of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine

Felipe De La Hoz

Mahmoud Khalil’s Fight for a Normal Life

As he writes of his childhood in Syria, of protest at Columbia, and of ICE detention, Khalil refuses to be reduced to a “face on a poster.”

Dark skies behind the Supreme Court

Richard Rothstein

The Making of a Judicial Coup

Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan’s new book reminds readers that the Supreme Court’s power to determine a law’s validity has no basis in the Constitution.

Scott Bradfield

A Veteran Critic’s Indictment of the Movies

Alfred Hitchcock directing on the set of “Rear Window” in November 1953 with Grace Kelly and James Stewart

Scott Bradfield

A Veteran Critic’s Indictment of the Movies

Books & the Arts

An illustration of a bomber aircraft made out of graph paper

How Decades of Privatization Unleashed Trump’s Warmongering

Two new books illuminate how U.S. foreign policy became vulnerable to unchecked militarism and flagrant corruption.

A photo illustration of a child on a jungle gym, with negative space indicating other children who are not present as silhouettes in white

Are Fewer Children the Future?

More people are choosing not to have kids. And many who want them are struggling to conceive.